That seems incredibly fast for plastic to degrade like that. I wonder if you could have something generating ozone in there.
With all these paper reams on the picture, is there any laser printer nearby?
My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated
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A company can not sell a product to consumers cheaper than it can sell to the federal government, and the federal government contract normally comes first. A lot of the stuff you can buy (minus restricted items), it'll just cost you.
They can't sell the same thing but they can sell something slightly different. put a different type of paint on it and you can sell for different prices.
Untrue, otherwise vendors would be doing this instead of leaving tons of money on the table.
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This is why you need a 600 Mercedes, made from lead and asbestos and concrete and VOCs and other stuff, that won't fail under any circumstances.
Just get a https://www.okaaustralia.com/ Ugly AF but artisanal and robust. ( Just avoid the original third gen versions from late 1980s (?) that offshored the assembly ) 2012 Bus configuration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fchq6F-gKkQ
Nothing can beat the 600 Mercedes for cachet though. Look at the list of owners: Idi Amin, Ceauşescu, Saddam Hussein, F.W.de Klerk, Papa Doc, Mugabe, Brezhnev, Tito, Mao, Kim Il-Sung, Ferdinand Marcos, Deng Xiaoping, Mobutu, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Mubarak, Berlusconi, Pablo Escobar, Jeremy Clarkson, nothing will ever come close to that.
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> [...] a string [...] Does someone have a recommendation for a specific material the string should be made of?
They also make bottles of cable pulling lubricant for this purpose.
It’s really overpriced. Sex lube and veterinary lube are the same stuff and much cheaper - you can get it powdered and mix your own.
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If it were radioactive enough to do that, you'd have a much bigger problem than some networking flakiness.
I don’t disagree but your comment made it sound impossible which it isn’t.
Well technically a nuclear bomb would also degrade the jacket of fiber cabling pretty badly, but we don't really concern ourselves with that since it means you're dead and the house is gone anyways.
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#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just get a https://www.okaaustralia.com/ Ugly AF but artisanal and robust. ( Just avoid the original third gen versions from late 1980s (?) that offshored the assembly ) 2012 Bus configuration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fchq6F-gKkQ
Nothing can beat the 600 Mercedes for cachet though. Look at the list of owners: Idi Amin, Ceauşescu, Saddam Hussein, F.W.de Klerk, Papa Doc, Mugabe, Brezhnev, Tito, Mao, Kim Il-Sung, Ferdinand Marcos, Deng Xiaoping, Mobutu, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Mubarak, Berlusconi, Pablo Escobar, Jeremy Clarkson, nothing will ever come close to that.
Any respect I had for you was lost when you dragged the reputation of world leaders with the inclusion of that failed farmer :(
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#2282cents...at my last job we used to buy only panduit cables..
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I do have PVC conduits under the flooring. You can see the photos here: https://alienchow.dev/post/homelab1/ In theory I can pull a new cable through. But practically it might be tough due to the number of bends (shelter -> wall -> vent -> ceiling -> wall -> floor -> room). In the worst case scenario I can give it a try, but it's probably going to destroy the new fibre cable when I pull it through. For now the connec…
you can always try the plastic bag + vacuum cleaner trick - take a thin flexible rope, tie it to a small plastic bag, stuff the small plastic bag into the conduit, use a vacuum cleaner at the other end to suck the plastic bag & rope through. You can then use the rope to pull through new cable. If you make the rope twice the length of the conduit, you can keep it in there indefinitely to pull through new cable wheneve…
> you can always try the plastic bag + vacuum cleaner trick - take a thin flexible rope, tie it to a small plastic bag, stuff the small plastic bag into the conduit, use a vacuum cleaner at the other end to suck the plastic bag & rope through.
That's absolutely great! Worked like a charm two days ago and everybody cheered and laughed who saw it :-D
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Military grade afaict just implies the military ‘could’ use it, by that definition almost any company sells military grade products or services, except companies who explicitly would not sell to the military.
Original Gameboys are military grade, and even in the gulf war when they were used, there was one that survived being melted.
I remember that Nintendo Power letter to the editor!