Just make sure everyone is using the same units ...

You are correct with respect to their internal storage.

However, say you want to interchange files among several computers using removable media, such as an SD card, USB flash drive, or USB hard drive. One is a Windows PC that prefers NTFS, another a Mac that prefers Apple's FS, and another a Linux PC that prefers ext4. What file system would you use on the drive?

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.

Then they lament, "Those frelling Humpback whales probably got it."

The people at Microsoft who wanted more universal telemetry and activity data, even for non-Microsoft software?

I liken it to telemetry that can apply to all software / activities on a system - even third-party software - w/o having embed telemetry in any software. Simply screenshot things every few seconds and scan the images with OCR and/or "AI". Truly a horrible situation for the end-users.

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.

The octets of invalid information mark the address as fictional, as opposed to being the live address of a real machine. Telephone subscribers in several area codes started receiving prank phone calls after the 1982 release of "867-5309/Jenny", a song by the band Tommy Tutone containing a live numeric address on the US phone network. This led US TV show producers to start using the 555 (or KLondike 5) exchange, which was largely set aside for fictional use.

The difference is that if the customer is on IPv6, the customer is more likely to have a globally unique address. This means the customer is at least technically capable of forwarding an inbound port across a stateful firewall, provided the ISP doesn't deliberately interfere with port forwarding the way T-Mobile US (a wireless ISP using 5G NR) does with its home Internet service. The TV commercials don't mention that T-Mobile home Internet is an outbound-only service.

And that would be bad why? Sure, Debian moves more slowly than Ubuntu, but but they're also not all-in on Snap. I'll take stability over cutting-edge for most things, especially if things that need more frequent (security) updates, like Firefox and Thunderbird, are also available - as packages. Also, don't most fixes from Ubuntu (and others) eventually get pushed upstream to Debian anyway?

Maybe Trump is just making good on promises to U.S. oil executives/companies -- first killing wind farms and subsidies/credits for renewables and now hampering middle-east oil production and shipments. /cynical

Trump pressed oil executives to give $1 billion for his campaign

They do (cynically) understand profit margins though and trucks, SUVs, and muscle cars are more profitable than smaller, economic cars - not only in sales, but maintenance too.

And comparatively, their U.S. workers *are* slave labor and the rich and Republicans seem okay with that -- pushing for fewer/lower worker safety regulations, less affordable / available healthcare and more expensive insurance, cutting and/or further restricting social safety nets. etc... They're okay with poorer people simply working themselves to death. /cynical

Not allowing consumers to buy those Chinese vehicles kinda props up Ford, and other companies. Some people may buy vehicles solely based on price, but most consider other factors too. If Ford can't compete on those other factors, it doesn't really matter what the prices are. For example, my 2001 Honda Civic Ex and 2002 Honda CR-V Ex (both manuals btw) weren't the least expensive vehicles I could have purchased, but they're (still) reliable and have long maintenance intervals.