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Grandma approves network switch only after you add the traditional lace dust cover
Networking Post #3494 · source on Telegram

Grandma approves network switch only after you add the traditional lace dust cover

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Four-panel meme: Top-left shows an elderly woman in a patterned blouse, face blurred, holding one hand up in rejection. Top-right shows a 48-port Ethernet network switch on a wooden desk; several yellow-sheathed patch cables are plugged into the first few ports and the black metal top is bare. Bottom-left the same woman points approvingly with her index finger, signaling acceptance. Bottom-right the same switch is now draped with an ornate white lace doily while the cables remain connected; a small blue swirl icon followed by the text "peta" appears in the corner. The humor contrasts home-style "grandma" aesthetics with datacenter hardware, highlighting the lengths sysadmins go to protect gear (and the occasional absurdity of mixing domestic solutions with professional networking equipment)

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Reminder: the unofficial 8th layer of the OSI model is ‘Politics’; the 9th is now apparently ‘Lace’ - skip it and your change request gets grandma-NACKed
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Reminder: the unofficial 8th layer of the OSI model is ‘Politics’; the 9th is now apparently ‘Lace’ - skip it and your change request gets grandma-NACKed

  2. Anonymous

    Finally, a solution to the age-old problem of explaining to the C-suite why we need $50K for 'ugly boxes' - just tell them it's artisanal, hand-crafted infrastructure with heritage textile integration for optimal thermal dissipation patterns

  3. Anonymous

    When the facilities manager insists the server room needs to look 'more presentable' for the office tour, but doesn't understand why the network engineer is having a meltdown about airflow, dust accumulation, and heat dissipation. Nothing says 'enterprise-grade infrastructure' quite like treating your core switch like it's a coffee table at grandma's house - at least until the fabric starts interfering with the cooling vents and you're debugging intermittent packet loss at 2 AM because someone thought lace was an acceptable network topology overlay

  4. Anonymous

    Facilities deployed a lace firewall: perfect Layer 8 compliance, catastrophic Layer 1 airflow

  5. Anonymous

    Layer 8 fix: drape a doily over the core switch - security-through-obscurity for management, reduced MTBF via decorative airflow for ops

  6. Anonymous

    Who needs cable management when grandma's heirloom doily turns your core switch into an overlay network of elegance?

  7. Давид 5y

    Да =)

    1. @sylfn 5y

      This is English-only chat so please add a translation of your message. Yes =)

      1. Давид 5y

        Да - yes =)

        1. @tty_port 5y

          == False

      2. @pavloalpha 5y

        Негры пидорасы (Asian People are the best)

        1. @sylfn 5y

          are Russians Asian?

          1. @pavloalpha 5y

            Yeap

            1. @adhdnigga 5y

              löl

          2. @p4vook 5y

            Wut ok

          3. @jor_ban 5y

            slavic Russians are not, but Yakuts, Uyghurs, Udmuts, Tatars, Bashkirs, living in Russia are

            1. @RiedleroD 5y

              most Russians live in Europe though afaik - but yeah, the Asian side of Russia is often overlooked.

      3. @igordata 5y

        Da

        1. @RiedleroD 5y

          wo?

          1. @p4vook 5y

            Was ist das?

            1. @RiedleroD 5y

              wer ist warum?

              1. @fll_fll_fll 5y

                Als, wenn Oder wann?

  8. @Azhinu 5y

    That's better.

    1. @Winklnix 5y

      Awww... "Let the battle begins!"

    2. @SamsonovAnton 5y

      There should be ventilation holes on the top side - otherwise it does not count as a "successful application of a babushka to a piece of hardware".

  9. @erizpl 5y

    WHERE'S THE CARPET?!

    1. @Stepan_Poznyak 5y

      On the wall of course

  10. @azizhakberdiev 5y

    What "dedushka" style would look like?

  11. @RiedleroD 5y

    says the guy with a tokio ghoul pfp

    1. @pavloalpha 5y

      With ...?

    2. @pavloalpha 5y

      ???

      1. @Dobreposhka 5y

        in Russian it is "гуль". "Токийский гуль"

  12. @emrecanozkok 5y

    Turkish style too

  13. @AmindaEU 5y

    Is it ok to cover the device or fire safety hazard?

    1. @RiedleroD 5y

      only if you overclock it to 6GHz

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