at least 17.

I have been training Spanish for around 400 days. the last change broke everything. they said something about the track i was on was changing but the level would be the same.
For about a month now(iirc) i cant follow any of the conversations anymore. often i only understand 1 word in each sentence and i have no idea what they are talking about.
It is probably a good time for me to just stop. :/

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 would probably run Linux if I had the time to set it up on my gaming PC as gaming is all I use it for these days.
But since running Windows 11, I have migrated back to MacOS, I can run all the tools I need for my work. SSH, web brower based tools, Office 365 that customers use to communicate(incl Teams), Teamviewer etc etc.
Windows is a mess and I swapped back to Mac. If it wasn't because i work 12 hours a day, I would probably start checking Linux as a desktop again.

I'm not seeing a paywall on the site. uBlock Origin must be doing something.

The UHF app on our Apple TVs & iOS devices and the UHF Server in Docker to act as a PVR gives us everything for a few $ a month paid in crypto.
We haven't had cable since ~1999-2000. Downloading and the *arrs have kept us happy, but the better half wanted to check out some live sports. So IPTV it was.

One of our guys said something to the effect of "Copilot is Corporate Chat. It knows all the useless filler of management-speak, but lacks the competence of the people in the trenches.

Ouch.

I've used Claude at home for ages. Work was wanting to get some AI stuff for us and the only 'blessed' one is CoPilot. Everything else it blocked. All senior management seems to know about AI is "Hurrr... Copilot and ChatGPT."

Out team of ~8 (pentestesting & VA) were unanimous about Copilot being crap and Claude being the top dog. So some higher ups OK'd a Claude Teams package for work. To bypass the CorpSec tards, we use it from our lab environment that has its own unmonitored link and IP range.

Anthropic/Claude is just so far ahead of OpenAI/ChatGPT and MS/Copilot it's not funny.

Citris remote apps and desktops are moving to XEN.
The UNIX dept are building OpenShift, more and more new systems are deployed in containers so why not run Kubernetes somewhere else than VMware?
All of it is happening because of Broadcom and the desire not to be dependent on them and their licensing anymore.
So we have shifted strategy from everything under VMware because it is easier to we want freedom to choose solutions even though it might take more resources.

They are also falling behind a lot in charging speeds.

Open office bullshit with 100 desks cramped in one room. need to wear noise cancelling headset all day to be able to focus on work. shitty screens, mouse and keyboard.
At home i have:
- Peace and quiet environment to focus on work.
- 2* 27" screens
- A proper keyboard and mouse
- Better headset for teams meeting
- Don't have to stand up in a "phonebooth" with my laptop to have teams meetings with a 10 year old headset that sounds like a tin can.
- Don't need to listen to music or youtube videos to drown out the chatter of all the people shouting to the guy that sits 2 desks behind me.
- No people that sits on my desk when they want to talk to the guy to the left or right of me, making my screens and keyboard dip and wobble.
- No disgusting toilets, where know my pants are going to be pee soaked if they touch the floor when i sit down there.

This summer i have changed my position on how i want to spend the rest of my life. I was supposed to work another 15 years until retirement age at 70.
I can't do this anymore. I am willing to sell my house, car and get rid of everything I own and move into something smaller, and even rent.

I have 2 jobs offers from people who need my skills, it can all be done remotely. it is less pay and also way less hours. I can move to a warmer, cheaper country within the EU. live on the money from the sold house and working half of the day remotely.

Work in the office sucks so much that nothing that money can buy is worth it.

I will move on, but my machine that runs Windows 10, does not support Windows 11.

I don't really care about TV or movies anymore. Also don't have much time for it.
But I wanted to see the latest episodes of South Park. I can't find any steaming service that offers their latest episodes in my country(Denmark). Their own side used to stream their show. IDK if they still do that but they didn't allow it outside the US.

Yes, I could pay for a VPN and find a streaming service and go through that, but it is not worth it to me. I don't "pirate" it because I don't care that much to figure that out and spend time on it.
So they could have made money from me if it was easier and readily available. :)