this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
2052 points (98.3% liked)

Lemmy Shitpost

26305 readers
11 users here now

Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.

Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!


Rules:

1. Be Respectful


Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.

Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.

...


2. No Illegal Content


Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.

That means:

-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals

-No CSA content or Revenge Porn

-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)

...


3. No Spam


Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.

-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.

-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.

-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers

-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.

...


4. No Porn/ExplicitContent


-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.

-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.

...


5. No Enciting Harassment,Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts


-Do not Brigade other Communities

-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.

-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.

-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.

...


6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.


-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.

-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.

...

If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.


Also check out:

Partnered Communities:

1.Memes

2.Lemmy Review

3.Mildly Infuriating

4.Lemmy Be Wholesome

5.No Stupid Questions

6.You Should Know

7.Comedy Heaven

8.Credible Defense

9.Ten Forward

10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)


Reach out to

All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (8 children)

When I was 15, my dad purchased me a plaster saw (still have it) and handed me his drill.

Then told me to make it look neat, but "don't fuck up because your mother will kill us both".

I ran about 4 network points through the house.

Nothing like fear to produce a 100% perfect finish πŸ˜‰

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And then there's me who just screwed up installing a new door knob. I stripped the threads on the screws cause I used the wrong size screws drilling. Now if the new knob fails in the future, I need to buy a new door lmao

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If it's a wooden door that you're screwing into, dab some match sticks with a little bit of liquid nails and gently hammer them into the stripped-out screw hole, and cut them flush with the hole. Once the glue dries, you can drive the screw back into the matches and it'll have enough wood to bite into.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People are getting hung up on the "liquid nails" when I think any old carpenter's glue would work.

You don't even need any adhesive if you simply shove in a toothpick or two before screwing in the screw. Remember: you don't need to completely fill the hole, just enough to fill in the space between the too-big screw and the right-sized screw

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

assuming liquid nails means molten metal, I don't think that's easily accessible in most homes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

you can buy liquid nails at like any home depot type of store

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (7 replies)
[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Go ahead and pull em in the wall! Don't be scared. Worst case the world is ending anyways

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Well that's reassuring

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Damn. When you look at it that way, I could probably justify attempting a lot of difficult things that way. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Damn, you’re right.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Join forces and do link aggregation for double the speeds.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LACP won't get ya double throughput sadly.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A tale as old as time. Before Ethernet cables we were running phone extension cables through the house to connect up the modem to the only phone jack.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I am old enough to remember those good old days!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had to buy carpets to hide the cable under them when running across the floor. Only exposed parts go through the doorways, and the wife complains about them. Well, I am not complaining about our craptastic wifi anymore.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (12 children)

If you own your house you could learn to pull cable and how to do punchdowns. It's not a super difficult job. That way you could impress the lady of the house with your technical skills while also hiding the mess.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

In my experience, the part about hiding the mess is all she cared about, as long as "the internet still works."

But you will always look at that wall jack and feel great about it while always having the lowest latency and highest throughput you can possibly get, and that will always impress yourself!

load more comments (11 replies)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did this for every device in my house. used flat ethernet cable and just fished it under the carpets. Was significantly cheaper than trying to make wireless reach the other side of the house.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Flat ethernet cable

What?!! I did not know this existed!!

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was staying with some friends and we were all Computer users and gamers, Ethernet cables sprawled across the floor to every room in the place, and when we got tired of tripping over it, we duct taped them down to the floor where they stayed until we moved out.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I can either spend $20 on the cable or you can pay $2000 for a professional to buy it and stick it in the wall.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Worth it every time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You could just use 2 Ethernet Over Power adaptors (not to be confused with power over ethernet).

After all, it's not as if the powerlines aren't already installed at home and connect all power plugs with all other power plugs.

This isn't even new: I've been using this solution for about a decade, back when it could do a mere 20Mb/s (which was still way faster than my Internet connection could handle back then ;))

Unless having a 500Mb/s limit on bandwith is somehow unacceptable when you could have Gigabit ethernet. Then again, why not fibre all the way ;)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Have you ever paid attention to packet loss?

Honest question, because I'm an electrician and Ethernet is so fickle, I've always assumed it would play hell on the overall quality.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

The whole thing is layered into multiple levels (go check the OSI Model and its Layers on Wikipedia if you're willing to go down that specific information hole ;)) and the physical layer should mainly be handling packet loss on the connection between those adaptors, transparently to the higher layers that just see that as lower bandwidth than the spec for the adaptors (a spec which is really quite optimistic, IMHO).

Yeah, a cable with a metal sheaf wired to the GND level (i.e. Cat cable) is going to be way better at higher frequencies and at isolation from noise that two twisted copper wires were the network signal is shared with a different "signal" which whilst generally 50/60Hz (depending on country) can have spikes and noise at other frequencies, so it's never going to be the same.

However for example at home right now I can get a reliable 100 Mbit/s over a pair of those adaptors from my router to my PC and the speed limitation is actually (I believe) from my old router not supporting Gigabit Ethernet rather than from the adaptors which are supposed to handle up to 500 Mbit/sec.

That said and as somebody pointed out, it only works well if the plugs you're connecting are on the same electrical network, as transversing coils isn't exactly great for high frequency signals.

load more comments (6 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

My experience is that you need to be sure the outlets are on the same electrical network, otherwise it doesn't work. When I did get it to work it seemed to be reliable.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why not get a powerline adapter at that point?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Shhh, it's better to struggle with the ethernet cord and make memes about it.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did that got better? When I tried it, speeds were horrible, ping all over the place and sometimes it didn't work at all...

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Are you...are you in the walls?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I had to run a Ethernet cable from the cable modem in the master bedroom to the office security gate and switch, which then connect to all the servers, desktops, and wifi routers.

All thanks to shitty coax wiring in condos and Crapcast.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

upgraded to a 3 node G mesh. it just works x10 years https://store.google.com/product/google_wifi_2nd_gen?hl=en-US

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Easy I have either cable but no family, my PC is happy too :)

load more comments
view more: next β€Ί