There is zero chance I'd go back to an ICE car. The maintenance, reliability, and fuel costs are not even comparable. The math behind driving an ICE car today only makes sense if you need to tow large loads for significant distances. The caveat is that you need a place to charge them for it to be stress-free. We calculated not long ago that it would take $0.25/gallon gas to make an ICE car break even with what we're spending on EVs.

"Windows is more for power users and MacOS is more for people who want their hand held"

That's the funniest thing I've read all day. Let me be blunt: macOS is an engineer's machine, Windows is for Susan in accounting. I spend 90% of my day in terminal windows on macOS, using make and compilers. I write code running on more machines, including Linux and Windows, on my Mac that you can even begin to imagine. I agree that Linux workstations tend to be used by more technical people. I have an ARM64 Ubuntu workstation myself, but to state that Windows is for "power users" shows that you have never worked in Silicon Valley circles. Virtually nobody in any form of advanced engineering uses Windows. The notable exception are a handful of terrible PCB design tools that are Windows only that everybody hates with a passion. Funny enough, most of them are now using AI agents to drive those tools ... from their Macs.

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.

Forgot to add: if you enable IPv6, be sure to use the browser extension IPvFoo. It shows a small 4 or 6 in your URI bar to let you know what protocol you're connecting to. Once enabled, you'll see just how much stuff out there actually is IPv6.

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.

I remember that from the US automaker CEOs, so what possible harm could there be? We'll just ignore those Chinese EVs and keep buying ICE-powered vehicles, right? Ford stopped selling their F150 EV because nobody wanted them. GM is stopping production of the Bolt because nobody wants them. I mean who wouldn't want a $32K version of a $20K budget subcompact with zero amenities? So let BYD try to sell EVs nobody wants, it'll cost them a fortune, and they'll retreat having learned the lesson that internal combustion engines rule the day here. US automakers absolutely gave it their all by over-pricing and under-delivering on affordable EVs, it's all but certain BYD will fail the same way, right???

There is a part of me that is ever so slightly disappointed that they didn't emerge from the capsule wearing ape masks.

What if we enacted policies to make having children, you know, affordable?

We're cooked, literally

Thanks for your questions, Freenet caches data but it isn’t meant to be a long-term storage network. It’s better to think of it as a communication system. Data persists as long as at least one node remains subscribed to it. If nobody subscribes (including the author), it will eventually disappear from the network. So yes, if only your node subscribes then the data will only exist there and won’t be available when your machine is offline. But if other nodes subscribe it will be replicated automatically and remain available even if your node goes offline.

Not from 2023, the linked video is from last month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

What are you talking about? Do you have any idea what the carbon emissions of fossil fuel extraction and refining are? Do you think the sludge that comes out of the ground goes right into a gas tank? I have 2 EVs, and our home is powered from a nuclear plant. I can absolutely guarantee that my pollution footprint is a tiny fraction of yours. I'll make you a deal: we'll both step into our respective garages, close the doors and seal them, put the cars on lifts, and run them at a leisurely 35MPH for 6 hours. I think you'll find your garage environment will be heavenly, while mine will be more earthly.

I know it's a typo, but I like ORC much more than OCR. Can we re-arrange the words Optical Character Recognition as Optical Recognition of Characters with a silent "of"? Wait a sec, hold that thought, with a silent "by" we can do ORCA, Optical Recognition of Characters by AI! No? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

Your words, not mine.