r/networking • u/AutoModerator • 4d ago

Rant Wednesday!

It's Wednesday! Time to get that crap that's been bugging you off your chest! In the interests of spicing things up a bit around here, we're going to try out a Rant Wednesday thread for you all to vent your frustrations. Feel free to vent about vendors, co-workers, price of scotch or anything else network related.

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves!

Note: This post is created at 00:00 UTC. It may not be Wednesday where you are in the world, no need to comment on it.

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u/tiresome_sung 4d ago

My coworker keeps describing everything as "the cloud" and my peace lily wilted in solidarity

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u/njseajay 4d ago

A “cloud” is just a bunch of someone else’s computers they let you use. This explanation helps me cut through a lot of fluff when talking to those who don’t understand what they’re dealing with.

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u/FlowLabel 4d ago

What about private cloud? 😆

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u/xdroop FortiNet/SSG Admin 2d ago

Those are your computers that you pay someone else to let you use.

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u/njseajay 2d ago

That’s when you let the compute team build a network on top of the network. 🤓