You're unlikely to get a fully routable IP from a home internet provider due to the fact that the IPV4 pool is running out, if it isn't already.

You can likely use a service like DynDNS to deal with the dynamically assigned IP issues. Or talk with your provider for a commercial connection.

Funny. The guy who installed a fresh new piece of fiber in my home sure wasn't a hallucination.

They're pushing 5G in some cities, but I there will likely be a fiber provider sometime in the near future, if there isn't one already.

It's weird for the first time to not be worried about bandwidth for anything. No data caps. Most downloads are limited by the sending server, not me trying to pull data through a coffee stirrer.

I am 100% in favor of 10Gbps becoming the "standard" service level in the US. I'd argue fiber should have been pushed harder five, or even ten, years ago. But here we are now, and the future's pretty glorious.

It's not a hard requirement... yet. I expect it'll become mandatory in a future version of Windows. Maybe 13 or 14. But I also wouldn't be surprised to see it become mandatory in Windows 12, given how eager they were to force everyone to it in Windows 11.

I expect they'll start adding signed hardware soon. And on-board biometric verification devices.

I could see Linux defaulting to an encrypted /home partition before too long. And I expect they'll start requiring Secure Boot and UEFI once more hardware with it gets out into the world.

They're not going to drop the TPM requirement.
And they're going to use the tech to start creating encrypted file storage with little slowdown. Which is a good thing across the board.
Linux will probably adopt something similar before too long. But it'll be optional for a much longer time.

There was a point at the HDTV transition where I went all in. Got a fancy tuner with a Firewire cable, built a storage server, and had ample storage. But everything that came out of the tuner had some form of encryption. (proto-HDCP, basically) So the firewire cable would go dark when an encrypted show was on. Or the capture card wouldn't take an encrypted stream from the analog ports. I just gave up and largely stopped watching TV altogether.

Ironically, in the last few years I've gone back to an antenna and "appointment TV" for a few shows. It's free (read: Not worth paying Comcast's exorbitant fees for their lower-quality rebroadcast signal), reliable, and works well enough.

I guess when I get my next TV, it'll have these features too. That'll be nice.

And way over on the other side of that argument, I have a 10gbps connection (not a typo) and I'm trying to see how much I can actually get out of it. Granted, most of the time I'm barely using it, but it's nice to know the headroom's there in case anything changes.

Since 1999? How many of them are even still active?

Also, with game streaming built in to every console, lots of people are doing that now too.

I can only stream for about a week before I get the "you're about to hit your data cap" email from Comcast.

What about:

GNU/Hurd and GNU/Linux
FreeBSD and RHEL
Tabs and Spaces.

Seriously? They/them/their have been singular pronouns in English for hundreds of years. It fell out of favor sometime in the 1920's because some grammar nerd decided they didn't like it. But it's never fully fallen out of use because there are too many instances where you need to specify a person without knowing their gender. Like, if you're pointing at someone at a far enough distance away that you can't tell whether they're male or female. You're just manufacturing reasons to be difficult.

I suspect he wanted to provide service that was less susceptible to weather issues (wind, storms, etc.) and lower maintenance. Ideally, a properly laid fiber line should be able to provide service for decades with little intervention other than ensuring animals haven't set up residence in the last junction box. Microwave antennae require consistent check-ups and the signal has to deal with lots of weather-related interference.

As some one who grew up in a rural area with terrible internet options until I moved, I'd rather have the wire than the antenna.

Gas pumps have decades of economy of scale attached to them.

Charge points aren't quite there yet.

Both devices need to be ruggedized to some extent to allow for people's stupidity. Charge points need to be designed to prevent people from inadvertently touching a hot wire. And we're still figuring out the best way to do that.

All of that is expensive.

24GB. The M1 is limited to 16GB. The M2 isn't.

Both articles linked in the TFA are pay-walled. Is everyone just going on what's in the summary?