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Comment Re:Let's see if his replacement will kiss the ring (Score 2) 62

Tim Cook had a brilliant career, but he had to embarras himself by sucking up to the orange utan.

Enjoy your retirement TIm Apple, you nauseating man.

In his new role his main job will be dealing with government leaders around the world, including Trump (assuming he hasn't aspirated a Big Mac and fries by then).

Comment Re:My home network is nearly pure IPv6 (Score 1) 73

To me the hoops that smoothbrains will jump through to avoid IPv6 and stay on legacy IPv4, especially when hosting, is pathetic. NAT, port forwarding, tunnels, blah blah blah blah.

I have something like ~1.2 trillion times the number of routable addresses that the entire IPv4 space has. Not all are reachable, of course, just the services that need incoming access and they're each on their own isolated DMZ.

Comment My home network is nearly pure IPv6 (Score 1) 73

Started the move about 18 months ago when I decided to get off my lazy ass. My ISP gives out a /56 prefix, so that lets me run 256 /64 subnets/VLANs in the house, currently there are ~10 in use. Everything get a GUA through SLAAC and I use RAs (Router Advertisements) to give ULAs to everything. Any external facing services get their own VLAN and /64 for the system(s) as needed. Firewall blocks all incoming as they usually do by default and I punch a hole for the external-facing systems. They can't reach back into the network, they only answer the phone. All the systems update DNS dynamically if the prefix or full address ever change.

I have an SSH bastion set up. In all this time there has not been a single SSH attempt from the internet. On IPv4 it was constant background noice.
For those legacy IPv4-only systems on the internet, I set up NAT64. I have an IoT VLAN and IoT 2.4 GHz wireless network that are only IPv4 because a lot of IoT network stacks are junk.

I'm still farting around with it, but man oh man, there's no way I'd go back to IPv4. It was one of the best moves I've done in ages.

Comment Re:Microslop is guilty (Score 1) 68

Does setting the default browser in the settings not fix it? I also fix Windows users' issues and I haven't seen this one, but that's because their comptuers are so locked down. In my mind there's the default browser in settings and if you uninstall the current default, it changes to another or at least prompts the user to set a default like I've seen with filetypes. Just let me blame Windows :)

Comment Microslop is guilty (Score 2) 68

Microslop is so guilty in this regard. Outlook has an option buried in the settings regarding whether to open web links in Edge or the user's preferred globally set default browser. Guess which setting is the default! When you go to the Google Chrome website, Edge both shows a popup and injects an ad over and into the site begging people to stick with Edge instead. Mozilla is also right about it's complaint; many things in Windows just open Edge and ignore the default browser. It's so blatantly illegal monopolistic behavior.

Comment Re:Yeah (Score 4, Insightful) 113

Curiously, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica which fell through a rift in the time-space continuum from 1000 years in the future describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."

Comment Re:Built from leftover parts (Score 1) 149

Why do they disable the GPU core....?

Chips are tested after manufacture. A large number of them have tiny flaws in one or more areas, but work perfectly otherwise. The ones that are flawless go in the highest-end models, the others have the flawed area disabled and go in the lower-end models. Some are just rejected outright.

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