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I pretty much agree with the article. Seems like quite a few of the .com companies exist because consumers don't have public IP's. With IPv6 suddenly replacing various services are easy. Assuming you have a router, raspberry Pi, or other machine you leave on 24/7.

After all seems like most end user use of the cloud could be replaced by a raspberry Pi. Things like file sharing via dropbox, webcams/security cams, photo sharing/browsing, internet enabled door locks and garage doors, and monitoring temperatures, furnace, AC, solar, power use,

Sure it's a bit of work, but I suspect many would happily run things themselves if there was a community solution that did it well. Last thing anyone wants to do is replace their smarthone because a random vendor died, lost interest, or was purchased. Like say google killing off Revolv after they bought Nest. Not to mention paying even a few $ a month for an internet enabled lock is silly.

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> Seems like quite a few of the .com companies exist because consumers don't have public IP's

That only works if you pass around an ugly IP(v6) address. DNS is still a thing, because humans didn't like passing around pure IPv4 addresses, IPv6 addresses are even less human-readable.

Your comment makes no sense. No one is passing around IP addresses by hand. It sounds like you have not heard of dynamic DNS, and don't understand how P2P software works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAAA_record

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_DNS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer

Can you please learn how basic networking works before posting on the topic of IPv6?

Of course I know how DNS and dynamic DNS work.

> Seems like quite a few of the .com companies exist because consumers don't have public IP's

This comment is suggesting that dynamic DNS companies would go under because of IPv6, which is absurd.

Can you please learn how to read before jumping to conclusions? It's fairly easy, I promise.

Not with that measily 480mbps USB controller split between 4USBs and 1 Ethernet. RaspberryPi4 hopefully.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation seems deadset on pushing the same genre of chip from Broadcom forward. I doubt the serious bandwidth limitations (all your I/O going over 1 USB port) or the notable chipset flaws (1GB of ram max) will be amended any time soon. They've had 6 years to fix the Raspberry Pi, yet it still has the same hard limits.

IDK I'm hoping the RPI4 will arrive when 4K starts become more prevalent and can do the HVEC decoding

HEVC on the next generation of Raspberry Pi is highly unlikely due to both licensing costs and Broadcom not having a cheap IP block to use for adding HEVC. 4K is more likely, but if you want that today go get an OrangePi for less than the cost of a Raspberry Pi. It even has HEVC 8bit support!

What online service is giving you 480mbps or better?

haha thats theoretical. Real world is 2-3MB/s over lan. Also Ethernet is 100mbit

This sounds an order of magnitude lower than RPi 3 B+ published network performance benchmarks, you should get around 250 Mbit/s = 30+ MBytes/s. Also, it's gigabit ethernet now.

(reference: https://libre.computer/2018/03/21/raspberry-pi-3-model-b-rev...)

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