Who ever the fuck has an issue w/ Lego having electronics products isnt a Lego fan at all.

TLDR: FUCKING MINDSTORM EXISTS

I'm guessing you don't know all the ways to activate Windows then.

Standard Windows keys require Microsoft for activation. MAK (multi-activation keys) also require MS. However, KMS (Key Management Service) however does not. KMS uses a locally controlled server for activation. This is quite common in large organizations that deal with a high quantity of machines (think fortune 500 orgs w/ 100k+ employees w/ laptops). This would of course also cover the military. Do you think the DoD was using phone activation this entire time for their air-gapped machines? No, they have the private DoD network w/ this type of infrastructure (at least, this is my assumption)

How may different compatibility deployments are there for IPv6?

6in4? 6to4? 6RD? NAT64, 6over4? Teredo?

Think any of those are fake names? Try again!

And that's just ONE piece of IPv6. Practically everything in the "spec" has at least 2 variants minimum, and its just a royal clusterfuck. When it is described as "protocol by comity", this is exactly the result, and its been a total pain in the ass to have anything reliable at scale.

You may be on one of the lucky ISPs that has a sane deployment and want to reply with "Well, it works for me!" - that's awesome, and I wholeheartedly mean it. That IS really awesome! But for the rest of us dealing w/ multiple ISPs in multiple regions, its a fucking shitshow to get anything reliable going consistently.

One IPS I deal with about 18 months ago entirely dropped IPv6 "support" - and now we can pull a single /128 address with no routing table at all. So we have an address that is entirely fucking useless, instead of having a normal block allocation which it was previously. Another ISP I deal with still uses PPPoE, and then uses 6RD over that, so the MTU is trash because both reduce the MTU size.

IPv6 is a fucking mess, and it pisses me off every day!

"You won't be walking around with a calculator in your pocket all day when you're an adult!" - teachers in the 90's and earlier.

"NO, you can't have a global communications network with the sum of all human knowledge attached to a tiny super computer in your pocket!!!!!" - teachers today

From TFS:

"In November 2025, the American IT services giant Kyndryl announced its intention to acquire Solvinity, a Dutch managed cloud provider."

When mentioning -40 degrees, there is no need to mention F or C, because that's the cross-over point!

I can't wait for this new level of kernel panics!!

I only state this because I have a Dell laptop for work, and Windows will consistently kernel panic (blue/black screen) when entering this mode.

Something devs forget to check is to see how well PCIe devices, in my case, Thunderbolt, goes in/out of sleep. These devices have direct memory access, and if you don't properly put them to sleep, shit breaks hard! It honestly took me well over a year of troubleshooting to figure out exactly it was these sleep states + thunderbolt at the same time causing the issue. Take either out of the equation, and shit works just fine.

Nvidia uses a unified driver framework for Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD. Dropping all support for GTX 10 series and older was applied across the board in all their drivers, not just on Linux. This article is more about the mishandling of notification to end-users in the Arch ecosystem that did a normal "system update", which removed GPU support without warning for users of these GPUs. In the FreeBSD ecosystem, we use versioned drivers already, where the package name includes the driver version in it, and if the older/compatible drivers are ever pulled from the main package repos, it is still fairly easy to "git pull" an older commit of the Ports tree, and "build" (download) the older driver and have it installed. Will this continue to function in newer kernels going forward for Linux or FreeBSD? Who the hell knows! This could also become an issue on Windows as although from a branding perspective, "Windows" is still "Windows 11", Microsoft does significant kernel updates yearly now (previously twice a year). So we're fine on 25H2 (tested an verified on my dual-1080 SLI laptop, yes, really, that's a thing), but who the hell knows when a newer build of Win11 will break compatibility with the older drivers too.

typical "i didn't have an issue therefor i'll just assume nobody will ever have this issue" response which doesn't hold truth at scale.

"The human eye perceives somewhere between 30 and 60 FPS"

This is absolute bullshit. Humans can track significantly faster than this, its just that at around 24 frames a second (assuming proper motion smoothing from captured footage), things START to appear animated rather than a series of stills.

There is a reason why 240Hz monitors exist. Check out Blur Busters tests, such as https://testufo.com/ - on a 240Hz OLED panel there is a distinct difference between 120Hz and 240Hz. And now we're pushing monitor tech well beyond this level of refresh rate.

There have also been countless tests done to show that higher framerates in fast paced games has a measurable impact on human processing latency.

You're right. Too bad nobody thought of this or accounted for this when figuring out any of this information. https://xkcd.com/1732/

I watched the video too, but they didn't actually seem to acknowledge "surge pricing"?

They explicitly said "people tried to purchase X at the same time" - and the point of the algorithm at its most basic function, is to automatically apply a supply/demand curve. There are 5x of an item on the shelf, 4 people try to buy it within a few minutes of each other, there is no such thing as "instant" on a computer, each of these transactions will serialize, and the price will go up because demand hit hard all of a sudden compared to relative inventory on hand.

Do I believe shadier shit than just this is going on too? Abso-fucking-lutely. But this ALSO needs to be covered in the base discussions and ruled out of possibility to prove and validate the other shadier shit.

From TFA:

These adapters don't support VRR. So you get the bandwidth, but not the full feature set of HDMI 2.1

Hey, remember that time Microsoft got a slap on the wrist for their monopoly? pepperidge farm remembers.

ahhh yes, the statue of the guy that represents "even if you die, we'll find a way to still make you come to work on monday"