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[โ€“] tempest@lemmy.ca 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Nah, I could afford nice shit but I'm still using a ubiquity edge router 8 from 10 years ago.

There is probably something to be said that there is an in between to those two extremes. The "my network is made of a Hodgepodge of shit my employer threw out that still seems to work and brand new things I replaced because I had to"

[โ€“] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

My first draft of this did mention that there was a version of the second type of IT guy who cobbled everything together with workplace castoffs and conference swag, but I couldn't figure out how to make it work without just being over-wordy.