| 21 May 2025 |
 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 |
| kongrooparadox | even second hand, a little too overkill for my current setup
a cheap 2.5G usb-c is good enough | 11:57:27 |
| kongrooparadox | * even second hand, a little too overkill for my current setup
a cheap 2.5G usb-c adapter is good enough | 11:57:42 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Binardat-Gigabit-Managed-Ethernet-Bandwidth/dp/B0CY5BHQ8V | 12:00:53 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | this one looks like the only one that will do what I need it to | 12:01:01 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | it will take a connection to the router via a 10G SFP, then spit out 10GbE | 12:01:17 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | * it will take a connection to the router via a 10G SFP, then spit out 10GbE over cat6 | 12:01:22 |
| emily | you can find a lot more things if you don't look on Amazon | 12:01:23 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | Where would you look? Aliexpress? | 12:01:43 |
 magic_rb | Aliexpress, maybe alibaba if youre really buying in bulk | 12:02:13 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | IDK this is a pretty good one | 12:02:45 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | I see most of the same on aliexpress | 12:02:50 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | this seems like a pretty obscure one, it's hard to search for too | 12:03:19 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | you only get 2.5G/10G, what I'm looking for is 10G/10G, and I haven't found a way to make search results more valid | 12:03:43 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | I wonder how the management interface works | 12:06:21 |
| emily | I don't understand. there's like tons of them on Amazon. | 12:07:04 |
| emily | I just put in "10g switch". | 12:07:19 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | Yes, and after like an hour of searching, I only found one that matches the above | 12:07:32 |
