One U.S. ISP that technically blocks inbound TCP over IPv6 is T-Mobile Home Internet (fixed wireless). The gateway appliance included with the plan offers no way to forward a port to the subscriber's computer. (Source) I've read that most major U.S. ISPs threaten to disconnect a home subscriber for running a publicly accessible server. (Source)

One large legacy network in the U.S. is Frontier fiber, which is still IPv4-only in 2026.

It'll help exactly as much as Unreal experience helps if you apply at a Godot shop.

In case your answer is "Well there aren't many Godot shops", then why is that?

There's no organized conspiracy as much as a less-formal worldwide shift in the Overton window toward more surveillance and less tolerance of erotica and nontraditional gender expression. Left-wing governments in other countries are just as eager to surveil their citizens. Look at how the People's Republic of China has expanded criminal background checks into a numeric "social credit score." The UK has its own share of conservatism; just look at Brexit and the "TERF Island" movement. And as long as global economies depend on hydrocarbon fuel from the Middle East, Salafis (Arabic for "reactionaries") will continue to have a platform.

Anonymous Coward mentioned two categories of "them". In case you don't see AC comments, I'll rephrase:

1. Government agencies interested in performing the same sort of predictive policing that led to Terrorism Information Awareness of the early 2000s.
2. The sort of religious conservatives who ultimately want sex and violence purged from even media intended for grown-ups, as we saw with Collective Shout pressuring payment processors to pressure itch.io to remove erotic works.

Reduced mental workload in having to put on a show of meeting society's behavior expectations for one's assigned gender all the time.

How is Unreal Engine noticeably superior to Godot in a way that noticeably affects a beginner learning video game development for the first time?

Unreal Engine is proprietary software with a free replacement that is adequate for beginners. That's why.

Wider deployment of TLS over the past 12 years, wider use of too-big-to-fail CDNs for DDoS mitigation (such as Cloudflare), and DNS over HTTPS have made firewalls operated by the ISP less effective by hiding from the ISP what websites are being visited.

When has Claude, or Gemini or ChatGPT for that matter, ever been sensitive?

Then perhaps what Google has failed to add on YouTube is a checkbox to exclude videos with only auto-generated captions from search results and recommendations.

So basically the same thing that Ubuntu's two-year "LTS" track does. Ubuntu 24.04 "noble" is feeling fairly old at the moment. Ubuntu 26.04 "resolute" was released a week ago to users on the semiannual "interim" track, and it'll be offered to LTS users come the first point release about three months from now. Drinkypoo has a point, however, that Debian has no direct counterpart to Ubuntu's interim track.

When you self-hosted Git and an issue tracker, how did you take care of these?

1. Last I checked on DigitalOcean's website, a VPS in that price range would have 1 GB of RAM. And last I checked, MariaDB took 300 MB of that by itself. How do you fit Linux + front end web server + MariaDB + Forgejo into 1 GB of RAM?
2. People need to sign up again to report bugs or contribute patches. Signing up is itself a friction, not to mention that your VPS is probably not already trusted by the major email providers. This means one-time codes for signup confirmation and password reset are likely to end up in the user's spam folder at best, if not just dropped without notification.

A lot of people can't self-host because they're behind an ISP that blocks incoming TCP connections. It's fine if you already own a domain name, already lease a VPS with big enough RAM to run Linux, a front-end web server, MariaDB, and Forgejo (that is, more than a dinky little 1 GB droplet on DigitalOcean), and already pay for smarthosting of your outbound email to make transactional messages deliverable to would-be contributors who use the big three webmail providers (Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo). Otherwise, that's a chunk of change every year.

You missed the #1 gigantic reason that eventually got Microsoft in trouble with antitrust and then they invested in Apple to get out of it. Microsoft made exclusive deals with computer vendors where they could get the OS and later the OS bundled with Word and other products at a huge discount if you didn't sell any competitor's products. I worked for and we sucked at Microsoft's teat. MS is probably half the enemy to consumers Apple is today, but in the 90s, they were the devil. They still have the absolute worst file system. NX isn't horrible, but compared to Linux and Mac offerings, it is a piece of garbage.

I don't hate Microsoft, I think they should win competitively, and in gaming lately, they are losing, from what I've read and seen. When I helped porting some (freeware) games from Windows to Linux and Mac, they were beating the Windows version by 5-6FPS (same as the Linux version). That was DX vs Vulkan. I want to try something with, say, Unreal Engine. This was all custom stuff and maybe we were just better at optimizing.

Won't happen, in fact, Apple was probably given a short timeline to fix it. Why? Because Signal is an approved application for contractors to communicate with government employees, including Secret and Top Secret.calls as long as everyone on the call is approved. I've been on some of these calls. Not that anything that needed to be classifeid was ever discussed.