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Splunk logs of traffic. It’s pretty common at the corporate level.

Are other companies much better in this regard?

Yep! This is exactly it.

Is that for power deliver, or signaling?

As mentioned in another comment, it’s also close to the safety limit for low voltage systems.

IMO solar pioneered (in recent history) 48V DC systems, which is an easy multiple of 12V to stay below the 50V “high voltage” safety threshold.

It allowed people to use smaller gauge wire and chain together multiple 12V batteries that are readily available.

I send all my old stuff for recycling now and get a gift card in return. They just did this for my ancient iPad that won’t even run the latest iPadOS.

I go on a site, pop in the serial number, and they ship me a box for free with a return label.

I basically got $45 for an incredibly slow brick, so I’d say that’s pretty good incentive for their recycling program.

Sure, you could install Linux and upcycle it, but how many people are actually going to do that? I think the recycling program is actually great for the 95%+ of people and how they use their devices.

Prefacing saying this is just my experience.

I sent back a down jacket which weighed practically nothing and packed down extremely small. However, harvesting the down is somewhat controversial and only recently has there been a movement to use ethically-sourced down feathers (I haven’t looked into the RDS standard. I’m sure it has problems, but hey, it’s a step in the right direction).

For normal fabric clothing, I think you are probably right. I do feel like the roundtrip in this case was worth it to get the most usage out of the feathers as possible (not to mention the 1000+ fill jackets like this are expensive).

I think this is it as well. I have a card, and do 0% payments. It’s not that bad, but I see how it could be confusing.

I forget who owns Black Diamond, but they're kind of similar.

They haven't fully replaced the product, but what is cool is that they have a repair shop that has been doing free repairs for me. I've sent a very lightweight, very heavily used puffy jacket in twice for repairs at no charge.

Realistically I know that jacket isn't going to last forever, but I respect they are at least trying to help me extract as much life out of it as I can from a sustainability perspective.

I would assume they said their market research said otherwise.

Personally, I have 0 interest in glasses, but a lot in quality, privacy respecting VR. Just not $3500 of it.

I would have been interested in a $3500 headset if that M1 chip had run macOS, so I could ditch my laptop on trips and take my office with me.

It’s pretty evident at this point that any Russian citizen in Russia or with family in Russia can be coerced, and it’s also pretty clear that Putin specifically does not have good intentions.

There are lots of good people there. It’s too bad there is a crazy person at the helm.

I mean, storage might be an easier option ;)

There are many alternatives, but I have a 10kWh LiFePO4 pack that is sufficient for my house 95% of the time.

There have been great strides recently in battery recycling and new chemistries. Not to mention alternatives to batteries.

To me this seems like one of those problems that seems impossible until the economics start driving innovation. I think we are heading in the right direction.

I think the OC was arguing that if your global /64 changes, the firewall rules would change as well for any hosted services.

I proposed that you might be able to route the external router’s WAN to a ULA via NAT to save in complexity when the PD changes, but I agree that a static delegation would by far be the easiest. Us home hosters aren’t used to that even though it is technically against the license agreement more often than not.

Could you NAT the router WAN external address and route it to a static ULA?

I think the more elegant solution is to use static IP space for hosting services, but most of us home users aren’t used to that.

Oh, interesting. My machines have not had good mDNS support, so I have been hardcoding ULAs for LAN-only traffic.

Yep! That's a great point! I forgot that LEO encompasses quite a bit of difference as well. Starlink has been in the news lately, so that's mostly where my mind was. I believe the newly announced Starlink shells are even lower, so that's good news from a failure standpoint.

Not to mention debris can be in GEO for a long, long time. People worry about LEO constellations causing Kessler syndrome, but the reality is that LEO debris deorbits in the order of months/years. GEO is much, much longer.

Congrats, now these hosts can't talk to each other due to the ULA addresses being less preferred.

What do you mean by this? Are you taking about mDNS still referencing the withdrawn prefix?

STUN also isn’t guaranteed if the router is strict. IPv6 removes a lot of these unknown and strange ways that IPv4 infrastructure can break things.

It’s a little different though in that rather than an IP having a bad reputation, it’s usually a /64. That’s how I have seen IPv6 reputation managed since it’s a common network slice & NAT is not really used anymore.

Why do dynamic address allocations matter? Most IPv4 consumer WAN addresses are also dynamic.

I’m asking, because I’m an advocate of having your gateway advertise a separate, stable ULA /64 in conjunction with the globally-routable dynamic /64.

This gives you a stable set of addressable LAN IPs, and you can usually ignore the dynamic globally routable IPs.

Granted this won’t work for everyone, but if dynamic global addresses are an issue, you should be requesting a plan that supports a static delegation from your ISP anyway.

Creatives are getting more and more frustrated with the AI tools showing up in places like Windows or in Photoshop.

I would be careful about bias here. The loudest people are often the most unhappy. I have several graphic design friends who have fully embraced integrating AI into their workflows.

I think so, but fewer people use it in that orientation when reading.

We are playing God now by artificially and dramatically altering Earth’s set point.

Someone gave me an analogy some time ago that made a lot of sense.

If you shine a flashlight through a tree blowing in the wind and vary the brightness to convey information, the signal can get distorted pretty easily.

However, if you have a constant brightness source and vary the color, it’s a lot easier to figure out what the source is trying to convey.

I kind of think WeWork’s business model might have succeeded in the WFH post-Covid era.

It allows the company to be flexible with meeting space budget without being on the hook for permanent space.

My company ran out of space pre-Covid, so we would book random meeting spaces (within walking distance) around the city.

This is an absolutely unhinged level of a pet project, and I love it so much.

Lua has some pretty neat sandbox-type features. I wonder if choosing it is related.

Yeah. That's what I struggle with. However, I guess increasing dependence on methane is not something we want to increase (to encourage more fossil fuel usage).

Maybe someone can correct my logic. As long as we are drilling for oil, wouldn't the natural gas need to go somewhere anyway? I believe it gets flared if not used.

ie - we should responsibly use all the excess natural gas rather than flaring it?