That’s fair actually. I was more worried about Minecraft hosts that allow you to upload your own game executable (which I sincerely hope don’t exist)

Unless you’re using Linode or something other general purpose VPS which you have installed a Minecraft server onto, having to use anything other than a WebUI to exchange files with the server really strikes me as sketchy. A dedicated can’t-run-anything-else Minecraft hosting provider even giving random users SSH access is sketchy enough but requiring you to use it to update the game… that level of not having an IT guy is just a security nightmare waiting to happen.

Guessing by your comment that you’ve actually rented a general purpose Linux VPS and not gotten suckered into Honest Pete’s Discount CreeperHost. In that case, carry on.

if your hosting provider 1) is not yourself and 2) requires you to use anything like filezilla, get a new hosting provider

IPv6 is already backwards compatible though. There’s a /96 of the IPv6 space (i.e. 32 bit addresses) specifically for tunneling IPv4 traffic, and existing applications and IPv4 servers Just Work™ on IPv6 only networks, assuming the host operating system and routing infrastructure know about the 6to4 protocol and are willing to play ball.

I learned a lot about it from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-oLBOL0rDE

wait why does sonic want to go to space

EDIT: right, nvm, I’m dumb, every single final boss in the sonic franchise since SA1 has taken place in space

ah yes because all americans are rednecks

I cannot help but notice that Elijah just outed himself as a brony

Just got my Framework in the mail today. I’ll report back soon and let you know how it is!

I use GrapheneOS. What’s it to you?

Almost like mobile operating systems that are open source so I can check for myself that they’re not spying on me exist or something.

…is this the part where I remind you that what we now think of as a British accent and British spellings were added by the British after the American colonies declared independence, and we kept the old way while British scholars were talking about how the word “color” didn’t look French enough without a U, or are you just here to troll

Europeans go 10 minutes without talking about how terrible the US is challenge (impossible)

update: i just looked it up and they are not. Visual J++ is a predecessor to C#. Nevertheless, the name “Visual J++” in all its Microsoftian goodness(?) is as good a descriptor as any for what C# turned into

In the early days of C#, before it was called C#, Microsoft gave it the most Microsoft name ever conceived for anything ever: Visual J++

…please tell me it’s one of those apps that stores the identity on the device.

love the mission and the message, but if i know anything about how things like this go, what it is, is about to die

EDIT: yeah, their about page says they “filter out generative AI images” without even mentioning how. never mind that with the rate the AI field is advancing, no algorithm for doing that works for more than a couple of months. no word at all on how or even if the photos users upload are going to be protected from scraping.

i hate to be a cynic, i do, and i can’t wait for this to age poorly but $20 says the website won’t even last a year

Well first off, if you’re building a NAS, build it out of drives that are rated for NAS use. Seagate’s IronWolf line is a bit pricier than their BarraCuda but has better transfer speeds and (more importantly) better resiliency to vibration, which is important if you’re putting a half dozen drives in the same enclosure and don’t want them to fail prematurely.

Bluetooth’s digital too, my guy. You need a digital-analog converter either way. It’s just that when you use the Lightning port for audio you don’t also need a Bluetooth radio. Besides, USB DAC chips are like a dollar.

Also you just proved my point that they only did this to avoid licensing fees.

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Why do they need Bluetooth at all though? Why not pull the audio through the Lightning plug like official Apple accessories do?

If I had to take a guess, it’s because the audio signal coming out of the Lightning port is encrypted because Apple hates everyone who isn’t them

As horrified as I was to read this, it is a little exciting to think that I live in a world where Bluetooth radios are so inexpensive that building it that way is cheaper