Remember guys, using GIFs of Racoon’s in a discussion is ok, as long as you keep them below 1mb.

    • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
      6·
      6 days ago

      It’ll have a QR code printed on it.
      That won’t take you to the router’s web server.
      It’ll take you to the play store to download the app. Which requires Play Services and access to your exact location, contacts, storage, call history and messages, just to set up your router.

    • r00ty@kbin.life
      2·
      6 days ago

      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.

  • rekabis@lemmy.ca
    1·
    5 days ago

    This doesn’t help people for whom their ISP doesn’t even provide IPv6.

    I run Telus Business Fibre so I can have whatever port I want open, running whatever service I want, and a clutch of static IPv4 addresses for legacy stuff.

    Telus Business has zero IPv6 availability, and is projected to not have IPv6 for at least the next decade.

    Like, fuck me.

    I know this is an April Fool’s, I’m just lambasting one of Canada’s largest fibre Internet providers for their wholesale inability to remain modern and effective.

  • bvtthead@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    Love me some IPv6. With mDNS and link local addresses, can get two hosts talking either directly connected or with just an unmanaged switch.

        • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.orgOP
          0·
          6 days ago

          Dont worry, I will not miss out on this chance to give a gigantic nerd talk about HRT, but I will not have that much time in the next few days, so it might take some time for me to actually get to writing it.

            • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.orgOP
              0·
              5 days ago

              have fun

              Will definitely have that. Its eastern and I Am taking part in my local tradition called Easter fire (German) which basically translates to drinking beer for 3 days and ignoring all regulations for road safety in order to make a big fucking fire.

              A demonstration on how much we dont care about regulations for road safety (those pictures were taken before that trailer was completely full):

              • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
                0·
                4 days ago

                OMG so fun! I guess it’s nice and moist in Germany. Here in Southern California our big fucking fires are more spontaneous and not fun.

                • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.orgOP
                  2·
                  4 days ago

                  It is absolutely fun. The longer you think about it, the stupider it gets (“So we drive through the village drinking beer and listening to a lot of antisocial music, collecting a whole lot of wood”, “why?”, “to make a big fucking fire. Idk why we do it, but its kinda funny”), but its a 10/10 experience.

                  We basically ignore almost all regulations that exist to prevent people from killing themselves (the only people that are “sober” are the ones driving), but its very fun when you take part in it.

  • Flaqueman@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    6 days ago

    Does anyone have some kind of beginner’s guide to transition a home network from v4 to v6? Everything I found is way too technical.

    Asking here but feel free to direct me to a more appropriate sub

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Meh, it doesn’t really offer anything for a home network.

      And this is why it really hasn’t be adopted even by business - there’s already a network in place that works. Migrating to 6 doesn’t offer any meaningful benefit to balance the effort and risk of the change.

      Now if you’re an SMB with 3 servers and a handful of computers, would you spend what little IT money you have making this change?

      And if you’re an enterprise with a thousand servers and tens of thousands of users, are you making this change?

      Imagine the cost of reconfiguring routers, and the outages you’d experience doing this.

      There’s just no pressing urgency to change, and LOTS of cost and risk to do so.

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        And if you’re in a larger company, you’re the guy or team that gets blamed for every. goddamn. network. problem. that happens after the transition.

        Fuck that.

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
    0·
    6 days ago

    I hate IPv6 so fucking much.

    I had to write an address validator and sanitizer once. Never again what the fuck were they thinking with the short forms?

    I do like having a lot more addresses, that’s great. The short forms, embedded ipv4, bridges, etc are confusing as hell. Oh, also, you have to add that all to your email validator script, enjoy!