| 21 May 2025 |
 matthewcroughan - nix.zone | https://www.amazon.co.uk/TRENDnet-5GBASE-T-Ethernet-2-5GBASE-T-TUC-ET5G/dp/B07TBPLR2V | 11:43:51 |
 emily | I see more. | 11:44:25 |
| emily | e.g. https://www.amazon.co.uk/SABRENT-Type-C-Ethernet-Adapter-Plug/dp/B0DQ9QGQYR/ | 11:45:06 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | oooh this looks like exactly what I would want | 11:45:37 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Binardat-Gigabit-Managed-Ethernet-Bandwidth/dp/B0CY5BHQ8V | 11:45:39 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | I just wouldn't want it to be managed | 11:45:47 |
| emily | anyway I just got the Thunderbolt SFP thing as I said. I'm happy with it. planning to hook up a DAC to the BPI for now. | 11:45:57 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | which one | 11:47:51 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | oh | 11:47:55 |
| emily | Sonnet SOLO10G SFP+ | 11:48:12 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | the sabrent one, wow didn't see that in the past | 11:48:15 |
| emily | got it off eBay for like a hundred quid including three SFP modules. good deal | 11:48:25 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | oooh okay yeah I looked at this in the past | 11:48:28 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | seemed too beefy | 11:48:34 |
| emily | no, not the Sabrent one I linked. that's USB-C and only 5GBASE-T | 11:48:40 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | 5gbps is really fast, I don't think I need more actually | 11:48:49 |
| emily | there are smaller modules people like. some QNAP thing. | 11:48:59 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | it's just an awkward number | 11:48:59 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | yeah I saw that, very pricey | 11:49:08 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | I want cheap and sorta standard, which the 5gbps adapter from sabrent implies | 11:49:24 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | it's just a cheap plastic adapter, which implies it's becoming a bit more normal | 11:49:37 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | I don't like it when the infra required for stuff is super bespoke and posh | 11:50:20 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | I like it when you can get the cheap nasty stuff for cheap and it all kinda works properly | 11:50:38 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | * I like it when you can get the cheap nasty stuff and it all kinda works properly | 11:50:43 |
 kongrooparadox | Redacted or Malformed Event | 11:52:40 |
| kongrooparadox | that costs around 300 euros where I'm from 😅 | 11:53:48 |
| emily | well, I wouldn't buy it new :) | 11:54:02 |
| emily | the key to enterprise networking gear is to get it second-hand | 11:54:18 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | I also don't like it unless it's running either dumb unmanaged firmware, or FOSS | 11:55:16 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | second-hand enterprise networking gear tends to not run FOSS, especially switches | 11:55:40 |
