refalo

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[–] refalo 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I don't trust any VPN service I don't personally control myself.

[–] refalo 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Agreed, and it is a tragedy that this requires snapd.

[–] refalo 4 points 2 months ago

I was not refuting that, yes drivers can control the LED since forever. The original comment was "the link light is powered by the switch", which I'm saying is not possible. An ethernet switch (assuming it's not PoE) cannot directly power an LED on a network adapter in your PC let alone the rest of it, that's all I'm saying.

[–] refalo 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

sure it depends on the design, but no standards-compliant non-PoE Ethernet design is going to light up an LED, it barely uses 1 volt.

[–] refalo 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Except neither of those things are true.

[–] refalo 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

the link light is powered by the switch

No it's not. If you don't believe me, unplug your PC's power cord and watch the light go out.

If the power cord is plugged in but the computer is shutdown, and the light is still on, then that means the network adapter supports WoL or OOB management and must stay on for that reason, but the network switch connected to the adapter is not physically powering any lights.

[–] refalo 57 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

$700 for an N100 tablet? Yikes. I can't imagine they would sell enough to stay in business.

[–] refalo -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, something being objective or not is still someone's opinion ultimately. And there's still no right or wrong. There's subjective and objective, though.

[–] refalo -2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

it objectively depends on the design of each individual phone

[–] refalo 0 points 2 months ago

not falling for the bait

[–] refalo 1 points 2 months ago

mesh-lined PC case would solve this

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