Well see, a lot of businesses are B2B. Now yes for sure ultimately their customer’s customer’s customer is going to be a normal person. So eventually the lack of custom and with it, revenue will hit them. But, here’s the thing I’ve observed about large organisations (not just businesses). I liken their operation to be very similar to insects. That is, they don’t really plan ahead, they’re reactive purely to stimuli, and mainly just do “what the other orgs are doing” without thinking about the effect beyond the only horizons they can see. Month end, quarter end and year end. Anything after the end of their current financial year. They’re not even thinking about right now.

So, the point is, this logic while completely correct will fall on deaf ears.

Yeah. Pretty sure back in the 90s, no one actively used GiB. Well, MiB (not the will Smith one) more likely back then.

You said it was 8mb of memory and people knew, it would be the nearest power of 2. You’d say 120mb hdd, and well, going to be honest a lot of people said it was “formatting losses”. I don’t think most people were aware they were being fleeced back then.

This was my thought too. 64GB is 64GB (powers of 2) when it comes to RAM unlike storage media. So if it shows as less, something is allocating it at or before boot.

I boot into windows every time that one NTFS partition I never converted gets locked for needing a check… Come on kernel 7.1. I need that new ntfs with the fsck tool!

Yeah I could convert it. But there’s some stuff on there I might want to run from windows, once every 1.5 years or something.

Well I was thinking more home users since this was what the post was about. Pretty sure data centres have solutions for this already with price tags that would make us cry.

At home I can see only edge cases where even going to 2.5 would be useful for us here anyway. Let alone more.

Now I’m sure as time passes demands will continue to increase and we’ll need more speed. But for now running 2.5/10 internally and 1gbit to the Internet is more than enough.

I’m pretty sure that nic cards for those speeds would really need more hardware offloading and dma to stand a chance of those speeds. With those it should be possible. With the right hardware handling there shouldn’t be a problem, ssds connected to pci manage a lot more.

In real terms, right now who needs it aside from to post speed test results?

I have gigabit symmetric and can upgrade to 2.5. But, I cannot imagine we’d need 2.5 let alone 10 or 25. And I’m a fairly heavy user.

The only RGB things I have is an NVidia 3080, and the RGB ram. Unplugging those would cause me a problem. I could set them to off. But, they’re there now. So I make them Borg green.

But if either of them (or the case) cost me more to have the RGB/Glass I’d not have gotten them. It’s absolutely not something I care about.

You’re not kidding. I have no real interest in RGB. But it was cheaper to buy a case with a glass panel and the RGB ram of the same spec was cheaper than non RGB… I just made all the LEDs Borg green and left it that way.

Hey, it was really better times when you could have your computer in any colo(u)r you wanted, so long as it was beige.

Way way back. I was given a 486 (when pentium 90/100s were normal) at work to run the experimental internet connection on (the head of the company at the time didn’t think this internet fad would last). So I installed some magazine coverdisk linux and connected the office to the internet via a single modem.

I think it had a peak uptime of 550 days before it was replaced.

windows is crashing linux is flowering, with linux there is no old pc only bad OS.

Unless it is a 486 and you want to stay current :P

So, I cannot buy new books or download my current ones. But, I can download them without paying and then install them still over USB? OK Amazon, that clears things up fine for me.

Yes, I am wishing I bought a spare drive or two for my home array. When one fails it’s going to get costly now.

The thing about peertube is… It’s actually a tough one to run for non-profit. I run an mbin instance and it’s fairly easy to afford the hardware to host that and securely back it up.

But for peertube, you need storage, and realistically you also need backup for all that storage. That can be pretty costly unless you self host. In which case even with fibre your home connection will be hammered.

Video content eats storage like nothing else.

The enshittification will continue until… No man, it’ll just continue.

Yep I’m hearing a lot about this and there’s a few Lora nodes on it in my area. So am considering looking into it.

If you set the ip of the router to fe80::1 then anything directly connected should be fine to connect using that address.

The thing is. Any year can be the year of IPv6. Google is on ipv6, youtube is on ipv6, facebook is on ipv6. Pretty much every datacentre I’ve used (OK limited to Europe) give you IPv6 for free by default. Deploying a web site to be IPv4 and IPv6 is trivial and people that use automation should be able to quite easily apply ipv6 to those scripts.

It’s really just the ISPs (more so in the US as I understand it), lazy IT people and the FUD myths holding us back at this point.

IPv6. No. Badly configured IPv6 routers, yes. But that’s something that would fix itself if it became the only protocol in use. And most routers now are pretty good at it from what I’ve seen. But it used to be the case it was easy to find bad routers.

The myth seems to be that NAT provides security. But a good default configuration for consumer routers would give the same security as NAT while providing the advantages and extra security IPv6 provides.

IPv6 usually has privacy extensions enabled. Which means it will generate throwaway IP addresses that rotate regularly for your outgoing connections, these IPs do not accept incoming connections. So someone cannot nmap you to find open ports based on the IP you connected to their server with.

Not to mention that most ISPs give each user more IPs than the whole IPv4 internet has. So, port scanning an entire /64 is not going to be fun.

Well you could accept the default generated one, or set it to fe80::1 manually. Don’t most good routers now have a DNS server in? So you could make it router.local or something?

I think some even by default make a DNS entry call router.local or similar pointing to themselves. This isn’t a real problem and if IPv6 were adopted fully, then all routers would likely come with something like this setup anyway.