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This joke was wasted on my husband (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/techsupportmemes@lemmy.ca
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[–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

The old Xbox to Xbox with no router blew a younger friends mind.

I tried explaining without a LAN DHCP server it sets up default IPs and a crossover connection using using the Simlink lets them sort out communication directly IP to IP.

I started mentioning Auto IPs 169.254.x.x used when you connect direct and want to telnet into something.

But at that point he's like Its making my brain hurt.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago*

    I wonder if they were ever in the IPv4 design stage talking like, "yeah of course we'll probably never see more than 256 connected computers, but let's play for way more than that! Let's just make it 32 bit so we're safe for a century at least. And we'll probably have moved off of IP long before then."

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