No.

Reasonable, helpful, and rational are not words anyone should use to describe American cops. They're out of control thugs.

Does it say what kind of VPNs are affected? MS has some built in VPN functionality, but then third party clients can do all kinds of random things including loading their own kernel drivers and trying to transparently hijack traffic rather than creating a logical routed interface etc.
VPN clients that operate this way can be quite fragile so it's not surprising to see them break after updates, the same thing can happen on other platforms too.

If we'd eliminated the anti-democratic electoral college like we should have over a century ago, she would just be finishing up her 2nd term.

She won by 3 million votes. But unfortunately land has more of a vote than humans in this country.

General purpose computers are going back to being niche tools for geeks.
Having a complex general purpose computer is a terrible idea for most people, they have no idea how to manage it, keep it secure, safely install software etc. The average user is much better with an appliance that provides specific functionality. People who want to play games can buy a console, watch movies on a smart tv, browse websites on a tablet etc.

This... The Apple touchpads are the only ones even remotely usable, you'd have thought other manufacturers would have caught up by now but even modern laptops seem to have much worse touchpads than 10 year old macbooks.

What are you two talking about?

There's no Morse required for technician licensing, and hasn't been for over 30 years now. All Morse requirements are gone now, you don't need it for access to the lower bands. Novice is long gone, there's just tech, general, and extra now, and none of them require code.

Depends where you go, most public wifi i found in bangkok (bars restaurants etc) had ipv6, as did the mobile data service, it was only the occasional wifi which lacked ipv6 - usually because they were using some ancient equipment.

For the few cases where wifi lacked v6 i complained about it, and then used mobile data (which was faster anyway because invariably the non v6 wifi was either an ancient access point (think 802.11g or 802.11b), or backed by something like a copper adsl line).

Cloud services also get retired/changed and require manual intervention. For instance AWS Lambda services routinely upgrade the runtime environments and the old ones become deprecated/unsupported. Although your scripts can continue running in the old versions its not recommended, and updating them to use the newer runtimes can often involve significant effort.

If you're just using the cloud to host a virtual machine, then everything inside the virtual machine is still your responsibility.

Hosting something like a raspberry pi is pretty simple, run an LTS version of Debian and set it to auto update. If not hosting services for public use, you can host services for friends. Here i have a decent ISP which gives me a static /56 of IPv6, so i have some separate VLANs with a few machines that friends and colleagues have access to. This includes a file sharing server, a git server and a hypervisor that we use for dev/testing on a few projects we collaborate on, plus another file server which i use privately.

If you happen to live in a developed country and are using an incumbent provider that has a lot of legacy address space.

Any provider that's not been around 20+ years is unlikely to get enough IPv4 space to provide one to every customer, so you will be behind CGNAT. The newer companies tend to be the ones providing fibre to the home, while incumbents will often still be offering ADSL or similar copper delivered services.

The hurricane electric tunnelbroker isn't accessible over IPv6, as it's intended to provide modern connectivity to users who don't have it, not provide extra address space to someone who already has IPv6.

You've highlighted china, but it's basically most of asia. Even in a small and highly developed country like Singapore several of the providers are now using CGNAT for home fibre services. In other asian countries like Thailand it's 99% CGNAT for home fibre users.
In the UK if you want to use any of the newer fibre providers it's also CGNAT by default, you have to pay more to avoid it - eg:
https://forums.thinkbroadband....

In Italy the fixed line provider Sky which launched in 2020 only provides legacy traffic through nat (shared 16:1) *and* tunnelled over ipv6:
https://www.ipv6.org.uk/wp-con...

China actually has a government mandate to move to IPv6-only, so you do get IPv6 by default alongside the CGNAT for legacy traffic.

Much the same in other countries - choice between use the new fibre provider with CGNAT, or use the incumbent telco with ADSL.

It's just not economically viable to launch a new provider these days and provide dedicated legacy ip for every customer. You would have to charge a LOT more than the incumbents, and they know it.

You used an antiquated VPN that didn't provide IPv6.
Don't disable IPv6, get a VPN service that's not stuck in the 1980s.

Actually there are compliance mandates in various fields which require the data to remain on your own physical hardware, so you cannot rent space on someone else's server to store the data. In some cases compliance mandates also require that data remains under the jurisdiction of your own government which means you can't host with a foreign owned provider, or host on a datacenter located outside of your country.

You can achieve redundancy without using a cloud provider. Nothing to stop you hosting in multiple locations.
Sticking with a single provider, even if they have multiple locations can still potentially have single points of failure - eg the management infrastructure, DNS etc. You'd be best using multiple providers in any case.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/...
https://www.theverge.com/2024/...
etc...

Tunnelbroker requires you to not be stuck behind NAT, making it a non starter for a lot of users.

Well they'll potentially just have less resale value, but those buying them also won't be factoring in the cost of replacement memory/disk.

If anything it will slightly increase the resale value of the higher spec models. Previously the premium of a higher spec model on the resale market was based on the cost of third party upgrades rather than the initial cost for the higher spec from the original vendor.

Possibly, or there wasn't a test case for a passenger over 100 years old so the developer took a short cut.
Assuming the system was originally developed in the 1960s there would have been people born in the 1800s still alive.

The problem stems from vendors wanting to brand the equipment but don't have the expertise to develop their own firmware. You end up with firmware that's made by some chinese OEM and then rebranded by a multitude of third parties. Even assuming the original OEM produces an updated firmware, you then have to wait for the individual reseller to apply their branding and release their branded version of the update. Often this doesn't happen at all and you're stuck with whatever version it rolled out the factory with.

It would be much better if they just shipped hardware running a generic open source firmware (eg openwrt for networking devices etc) which could be updated from the stock repositories. This would save money for the vendors, while providing a better experience for the users.