The Router That Survived Everything

Description

A portrait photo shows a small router or network box on a plywood workbench, completely coated in gray-brown dust and grime. Green status LEDs are still lit on the front and side panels, with black cables plugged into the device, while the dirt and molded casing make the top look like an angry skull-like face. There is no visible text in the image. The joke is the familiar sysadmin reality that some horrifying, forgotten piece of physical infrastructure can remain load-bearing for years as long as the link lights stay green.

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Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Uptime is easy when the hardware has become load-bearing sediment.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Uptime is easy when the hardware has become load-bearing sediment.
@azizhakberdiev 3y

"I hope meatbags will fix me after that"
@Araalith 3y

"Just a bit overvoltage and I'm ok."
@mpolovnev 3y

That's what developers who moved to Cyprus in 2022 feel now
1. @UQuark 3y
  
  No condolences
@callofvoid0 3y

was that a switch?
1. @dollarbr 3y
  
  the device in picture is doing nothing, cause there is no ethernet cable conected to it, it is a Mikrotik, probably a RB951Ui-2HnD or a RB951G-2HnD