I’ve never heard of anything working that way. The preferred algorithm is RFC 8305 “Happy Eyeballs,” which uses whichever network responds first. Even if your clients prefer IPv4, having IPv6 available allows you to access some resources that are not available over IPv4.

Matter uses IPv6 but it does not require you to have IPv6 internet. As long as the router isn’t blocking IPv6 router advertisements and IPv6 traffic between devices in your LAN you should be okay.

I already switched to Immich. It’s pretty good at finding pictures, it doesn’t require a subscription, and it isn’t Google.

Is that what his head looks like under his hair?

My old phone was constantly recommending that I send YouTube videos with spy query parameters to the e-mail address of a dead relative instead of Untracker. It’s like they designed the system to push users towards doing what they want users to do instead of helping users do what users want to do.

I have to use a Mac and I can confidently say that the experience of using a Mac has not gotten better every year. It just doesn’t get worse as quickly as Windows. It may be true that Apple Silicon has gotten better every year, but so has AMD.

47 years of extortion, corruption, and death

Oops. 47 is actually the number of the US president with the most extortion, corruption, and death.

What does licensing have to do with it?

Microsoft is a huge liability. They’ve forced companies and home PC users to be needlessly dependent on their cloud services to be able to do just about anything. They own the hugely popular GitHub and NPM developer platforms, and indirectly control other developer platforms through GitHub integrations. They’re one of the major cloud service providers. They have a system that forces home and small business PCs all over the world to execute arbitrary code. They’ve been replacing their developers with incompetent AI systems. A major Apple or Google attack has the potential to break nearly all mobile devices, but a major Microsoft attack could cripple businesses everywhere.

Facebook and Palantir on the other hand could just disappear off the internet and we’d be better off.

Give it a few months and your phone will helpfully install it for you.

Would the MacBook Pro or rpi4 with a second Ethernet nic running a firewall before the routers also fix the issue of not getting security updates?

No. For most routers, this provides no additional protection to the router. Your router should not be accepting connections from the WAN side that would be blocked by the firewall, but consumer routers almost always initiate connections to the WAN side, indistinguishable from normal client traffic to your firewall, and accept connections from the LAN side, invisible to your firewall. If the firewall blocks all incoming requests, it would create problems for UPNP, effectively giving you CGNAT, even if the firewall does not perform address translation.

At least for some laptops, you cannot just remove the battery. If the battery is removed, the performance may be throttled. This is true of very old MacBooks.

Of course I understand the EO perfectly.

Why 7 days? It should be illegal for them to have the data in the first place, especially in the EU where they have better ways of doing age verification. There are situations where the law says that you need to verify somebody’s identity, and age checking should not be one of them.

Was there ever a chance that the self defense force would be deployed to help the US attack Iran?

Soon the whole US will be rolling “clean” coal.

In the US, most IPSs have remote access to your modem as well, even if you purchased it yourself from a store unaffiliated with your ISP.

If there was another 9/11, Trump wouldn’t be able to decide whether it was bad because America was attacked or good because he doesn’t like New York City.

Not all of the American children will be brown, but they’re probably poor and they will be praised for their bravery so people don’t feel as bad,

The Epstein files are the distraction. The United States government, particularly but not exclusively Trump and his appointees, is committing a new crime every week but everyone keeps going back to the probable suspicion that Trump was involved in the sexual abuse of minors years ago. There is no way that Trump will be removed from office because of the Epstein files when the Department of Justice is running an illegal coverup for him. Complaining that the DOJ is withholding files that probably exist about something that Trump probably did is too abstract for anything to happen in Congress. Get them out for the recent crimes that aren’t just probablies first and then talk about the Epstein files when over half of the government isn’t trying to cover them up.