Thought Bubble

"Dad's laughing, but I'm about to host the most epic LAN party of my life"

Dear old Dad is in IT, and he explains that this is a lot more expensive than a nintendo switch.

I literally asked for a network switch for my birthday a few days ago. Although it's a 16x sfp+ switch for my home fiber rollout.

I didn't get it because it didn't go on sale and I told my mom not to. Although I suspect she didn't listen to me and got it for Christmas (it's impossible to tell her not to get a present she knows you want, and also to not spend the budget she set aside).

Poor kid got a hand me down cisco IOS garbage fresh off the legacy rack decommissioning full of old ass Sun SPARC servers.

At least get him something new.

At least it's a proper Cisco one and not those shitty Linksys/SG ones.

I have a couple of 8-port Gigabit Netgear switches that have been working perfectly for about 15 years, now.

I sort-of forget about them. They just work. It's nice.

@The_Picard_Maneuver Or, alternately, in the 80s if your grandma had literally NO IDEA about kids' toys. (When my brother asked for a Transformer for his birthday, she called my mom asking for specs and whether he was sure this was what he wanted.)

“I said I wanted Switch 2!”

“Switch 2? What’s wrong with the first one I gave you?”

That switch predates the switch by quite a while

At least your dad is not black.

I would have loved that gift as a teenager - I only had a 4port hub, which limited the people I could invite to a LAN party

Pretty sure this is gonna be a better investment in future and cannot be bricked by nintendo when they feel like it.

I'm doing NetworkChuck's Summer of CCNA. I know what a switch is now :)

Dad trying to turn his son into a sysadmin

Lucky.

bruh

To be honest, I prefer a switch rather than a switch right now.

Capitalisation is lost in spoken word. Blame capitalism?

/s