Droo

Lord Magnificent Bastard. TSS-Radio, Former Rural Broadband Ops/NOC/IT/Systems Guy, FreeBSD Promoter, Beloved Public Figure and Full-time Super Hero.

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Can you just show the work from an official DSA publication (website, etc) without beating them upside the head about it?

I do get where you're coming from. For me, no relationship is worth that much to me, but I get that people treat these things differently for a bunch of reasons.

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Some vehicles have (I think they call them solar windshields) that can interfere with toll collectors, basically they have some degree of metal embedded in them. I don't think it's super common, but the EZPass website has a list of vehicles they know are that.

Metal is bad for the signal, but glass itself shouldn't be a problem.

Can at least give it a go before you put the money out to put it outside. For me, for whatever reason, I don't really like the idea of a microwave satellite device being near my head. But people do it, and no-one's reported that they had regrets, for better or worse. :-)

The roof mounts are 4 magnet if I remember right, some connect to the roof rack rails. Since it's flat, it's probably less of a flight concern than some other things you could put up there (like the giant storage tub).

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@Weir4Liberty I consider it our state's Malört, effectively. Some weird rite of passage as a Mainer for some reason, but vile.

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I don't think that's a crazy expectation. Some hardware, especially older stuff or embedded things, may claim support of IPv6, but reality is different.

We had a point in time where a lot of consumer routers, and even some commercial stuff, had questionable implementations for a long time.

It really depends on what you're using. In a household with recent cell phones, laptops, game consoles, probably works fine for most.

I did have a few ISP customers that had some oddities so, since they were using our modem/router combo, I'd just disable IPv6 for them to resolve it. It wasn't an issue with our CPE.

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Kind of a mixed situation here. Some places may be doing 6to4, but a dual stack IPv6+CGNAT IPv4 is a pretty common thing with some new build ISPs as well as cell carriers.

I decided to avoid CGNAT because we wanted to be able to positively ID customers (the best we could) for legal requests. My thought has always been that either you need DPI or you would need to implicate everyone in the group sharing the IPv4 IP at the point in time otherwise. There's some other CGNAT oddities I don't really care for too (namely related to inbound connections in video games, some IP Phone implementations, etc.).

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Depends on where you are. I have two fiber ISPs and a cable company in central Maine on my street and it's been that way for about 4 years. One offers up to 8Gb, the other offers up to 6Gb. I've been on the Internet since the early 90s and that version of me would be in awe.

Before that, we had cable Internet here since the early 2000s and Maine was one of the first states to launch the Toshiba PCX platform with Time Warner Cable in the mid/late 90s in the US.

I view the lack of IPv6 more as a 'lazy engineering' thing than an infrastructure thing. We implemented it in our ~10K cable company because it cost basically nothing to do so, and I made the choice to just implement it. :)

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Will be interesting to see how the long term plays out, but at least some of the community feels 'seen', which is a step in the right direction.

I don't have a big dog in this fight because I own an Xbox, but I use it casually with friends to chat and play specific games like Forza Horizon.

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@QuinnyPig They fired a bunch of them and outsourced to places like the Philippines if memory serves, so I'm not sure where the comparative is.

T-mobile hires 750 in this state alone, so I have the cell carrier that has 5G everywhere and invests in the region.

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@AvonandsomerRob I pulled the wifi modules out of my Midea U-shaped AC units. They're just connected under the filter door by USB.

All well and good for people who want that stuff, but I don't.

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@elvisofdallas Came back to Mac in 2006, still have to support Windows Server and Windows.

People ask me why, I tell them 'I don't want to frig with my own stuff when I get home from frigging with everyone else's crap'. :D

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@badbake_offgrid Always interesting to me when people add me to 'lists' that I don't know for the same reason.

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@badbake_offgrid It really is a dice roll. Last time Augusta had to send me a trailer plate, it took a week and a half and it supposedly went out the day after I called them.

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@PatchoSombrero The King has a train/trolley service that crosses between the real world and Make-Believe if I remember right. that's a heck of a feat if you really think about it.

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@CourtneyMeehan3 ....Which is why I hide up in The County.... :D

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Looks like my NOCO Genius10 Battery Charger bought in Aug of last year already died (10 months later). The fuse blew in the positive clamp line, I replace it, and it blows again if the charger starts up.

3 Year warranty is great and I filed an email with NOCO, but it does make me a bit worried about durability. Maybe the replacement will have some fixes. I'm not sure how long this one was sitting on the shelf at Autozone before I bought it.

I have an older Genius5 from 2020 that hasn't died yet though, and you just can't beat the size for what it is. car battery chargers are usually huge things.

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@CollinJHumphrey Hank Hill on King of the Hill uses the stuff. That's about all I know about it.

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FreeBSD/Sparc64 was an interesting trip. Those things were pretty underpowered when I got my hands on them.

My current hobby rack in colocation is 2x HPe DL360 Gen10s, 2x Xeon 5220Rs in each (24 cores each) and 192GB of RAM. I have about 18 of them, along with a bunch of Supermicro AMD EPYC stuff. It's probably enough to power an island nation, as absurd as that sounds.

I really want to get my hands on some ARM servers though.

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I'd really like to know what the best possible way is to balance access for people who will consume these products (either enjoy them, or keep/collect for themselves) vs online resellers.

It seems like a very difficult thing, and the only true solution is just for these companies to print more copies of their products.

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Some Target stores are now cutting the seals on Pokémon ETBs in an effort to deter scalpers

One employee had to defend his decision to slash the boxes after some shoppers questioned why he was "messing with The Pokémon Company’s sales"