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  • If OP is asking such a question, y’all are probably making your answers too complicated.

    Unmanaged switch: All the ports are equal. Plug anything in anywhere, it works, done.

    Managed switch: There is a world of options to control how data moves in and out of those ports. You can really go nuts!

    Your basic home or business user only needs an unmanaged switch, good enough.

    A home user that wants to learn, build a home lab, managed switch. A business with more complex networking and security needs, managed switch.

    As to the expense, managed switches are stupid cheap on eBay. If you want to experiment with networking, that’s the way to go.

    One more funny note, if you end up with a managed switch, but don’t need or care about the options, reset to factory and it’s now an unmanaged switch! (You can still program it of course, but you don’t have to in order to make it fly. Just plug stuff in.)





  • Ran Linux as a daily driver, many versions, on and off, for 20-years. Over all, it’s a pain in the ass. Built several “little old lady” laptops for charity customers. Linux works a charm if all you need is FaceBook and email!

    It amazes me that lemmy evangelizes Linux, then posts 100 comments about how this, that and the other Linux OS sucks, has security issues, how theirs is superior, and “why doesn’t my $peripheral work?” And the answers are always the same, "You just have to $directions.* I don’t need $directions for my shit to work on Windows.

    Want to see how to collect angry downvotes? Visit a post talking about how Microsoft is doing some evil new thing or how they’ve broken a feature. Merely comment this:

    “I don’t have that issue. Never seen it.”

    No rebuttals, no nothing, just “fuck you for saying so”. Angry new atheists.



  • Active Directory is a monster. Got downvoted to hell the other day for saying there is nothing out there that comes close for managing a fleet of machines. Most of the idiot arguments revolved around thinking AD is fancy LDAP.

    “Linux and Mac can do authentication!”

    If one’s view of AD is that limited, we’re not having the same conversation. Cross connect AD with Powershell and Hyper-V, you have a robust ecosystem for enterprise. And there are zero issues with running headless Linux servers on Hyper-V.








  • More digestible way of saying what you’re saying:

    We’ve learned much. The way we treat pregnant woman has changed. We’re much more conservative as to what we prescribe or condone.

    Maybe some odd factor we haven’t thought of changed? What if that factor/behavior changed the infant’s immune system? What if we quit doing that thing and the issue has self-corrected, but we haven’t put 2 and 2 together?

    Yes, our biology is the most complex thing I know of. We just have to keep moving forward with what we know. Sorry everyone is treating you like an antivaxxer.