i finally found this picture again. it has infected me memetically a long time ago

Never touch the terminals.

Please don't. Cause of failure.

This may be the cause.

It is not possible to use multiple computers at the same time.

It is not possible.

@whitequark sounds like someone hasn’t heard of IP-over-FireWire!

@eschaton @whitequark

I have a couple of FW800 disk that support daisy chaining. One time, I tried connecting both ends to a computer. It was surprisingly boring. I could run IP over FireWire between the computers but only the first computer I plugged in saw the disks.

@eschaton @whitequark please don’t pee on the terminals
@eschaton @whitequark Exactly. We used this a lot back then when FireWire's 400 Mbit/s was a substantial upgrade over typical consumer-grade Ethernet's 100 Mbit/s. Lovely times!

@eschaton @whitequark

I peed over a fire one time while camping.