I remember this happening to Linksys with the WRT-54g routers. They shipped with firmware based on open software (I don’t remember the exact license) and they were brought to court and forced to release the source code.

In the end it really helped the sales of that model because hobbyists wanted it for the freedom of running their own code on it.

Do you have an example of a project that has both free and commercial licenses? How does that work in practice?

The problem from a user interface perspective is that the search bar and the url are the same field. I don’t have edge, but what happens if they type “Google” into the url bar vs “Google.com” vs “https://google.com”/.

I have this problem at home when I try to go to a device on my lan, like how “http://jellyfin.lan”/ works but “Jellyfin.lan” takes me to a search page.

What is the difference between a “suicide drone” and a missile? Both are just guided to run into their target. It’s not like an ICBM wants to return home after dropping the payload.

I did it, well… because I could.

That is a very valid reason. I could see setting it up to learn more about how IPv6 works. I just wanted to see if I could get any actual advantages with it.

office situation where there are a large number of devices

That would make sense as a place to have it. Having a large number of devices where each having an external IP would be handy. My environment really only needs one or two devices having direct external access.

I mean, I don’t have NAT traversal between my NAS and devices on my lan now, they are routed because they are different VLANs but that would happen anyway.

Do people have problem with ip conflicts? I guess if I wasn’t running DHCP that would be possible.

Right now NAT is my main firewall between most devices and the wider internet, but I do still run pfsense and have firewall rules in place.

Switching over to IPv6 seems like it would be extra work for very little actual benefit.

What do you get out of IPv6 for lan routing vs just sticking to IPv4 for everything?

I would argue MOST games don’t have DRM rootkits today, just not the ones that spend more $$$ on marketing than development and writing.

I miss LAN parties, everyone coming over lugging their desktops and CRT monitors, having an 8-port 10gps Ethernet hub (not switch), staying up late playing 4v4 StarCraft maps and Diablo 2 games at max capacity.

Good times.

It will take a long time and while it runs it will use a lot of resources so the server can be bogged down. It is also a dangerous time for a NAS, because if you have a drive down, and another drive dies, the whole pool can collapse. The process involves reading every bit on every drive, so it does put strain on everything.

Some people will go out of their way to buy drives from different manufacturing batches so if one batch has a problem, not all of their drives will fail.

The way striping works (at an eli5 level) is you have a bunch of drives and one is a check for everything else. So let’s say you have four 10tb drives. Three would be data and one would be the check, so you get 30tb of usable space.

In reality you don’t have a single drive working as a check, instead you spread the checks across all of the drives, if you map it out with “d” being data and “c” being check it looks like this: dddc ddcd dcdd cddd

This way each drive has the same number of checks on it, and also why we call it striping.

When you are running a server just to store files (a NAS) you generally set it up so multiple physical hard disks are joined together into an array so if one fails, none of the data is lost. You can replace a failed drive by taking it out and putting in a new working drive and then the system has to copy all of the data over from the other drives. This process can take many hours to run even with the 10-20 TB drive you get today, so doing the same thing with 140 TB drive would take days.

Tor has its own problems and is not infallible.

My cat’s whiskers were breaking short and when I noticed I switched to a shallow bowl designed for cats. It immediately helped. Cats Ike plates and shallow bowls over tight spaces.

No, it appears that just plugging it in won’t make it go, you have to plug it in and press the button.

I ended up with an archgon MD-8107 and it has been great. It is external and plugs in via usb, and works great on both my Mac Laptop and my Linux box with MakeMKV.

I think I found it via the forums on MakeMKV to make sure I got one that I could put the correct firmware on.

The only UHD disks that I have had problems ripping are brand new releases. Then I give it a few days and MakeMKV has no problem.

My house growing up had a bunch of those (female) ports around and we had the adapters to convert them to RJ11.

No human would stack books that way.

It still has problems. Mainly you need to get power out there and the heated exhaust water can mess with the ecosystem.

I remember there was talks about a floating data center in the ocean.