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No, it's just load management. They run a full matrix home server for all their users and a bunch of bridges.

I'm not sure I understand. Your relatives can remember to buy Apple but not Samsung?

Also, Samsung offers lower end phones with lesser but still good update policies. They're good phones but a lot cheaper than any iPhone, which should satisfy your older relatives.

Just buy Samsung or pixel. 7 years of updates guaranteed.

The old terms lock you into the App Store, no?

App passwords still work. There's no need to be hyperbolic.

Note that there are tools to restore the win10 taskbar in 11. I use startisback, but there are more. Also be sure to use a privacy tweaker!

Please excuse me while I become 'that guy', but Proton is a distribution of Wine with a bunch of patches and extra components like DXVK. The vast majority of proton is unmodified wine.

Valve offers a generous refund policy. If the game doesn't work on your system, refund it.

Okay, so perhaps 'all' was a little optimistic. Spark is the old government monopoly, once called 'Telecom'. As such, they have inherited a huge base of users who don't pay any attention to which ISP they are using, or don't even know what an ISP is. As such, they're basically non-competitive.

There's rarely any benefit to using them compared to the competition - they are more expensive and refuse to join free internet exchanges, so Spark users frequently experience bad routing to services which refuse to pay money to Spark to peer.

What I can tell you, though, is that I have never once heard of Spark warning/booting a user for excessive usage, and I have my ears to the ground at various NZ tech forums.

Other ISPs, however:

https://www.orcon.net.nz/terms/broadband

    If you are on an Uncapped or Unlimited Plan, the total amount of data you can upload or download is unlimited. We may use traffic prioritisation policies for these Plans to protect our Network and improve the overall performance amongst our customers. 

(This is the Vocus group, including 2degrees, Slingshot, Flip, 2talk and Stuff brands)

https://main.prod.vodafonenz.psdops.com/_document?id=0000018...

    Our policy is to provide you with the best broadband experience possible, so we won’t slow down or throttle your connection.

    One New Zealand does not have a fair use policy for One New Zealand Fibre, HFC, VDSL or ADSL broadband

(One NZ, old Vodafone)

https://care.zeronet.co.nz/hc/en-us/articles/7436185566863-N...

  Zeronet does not enforce a fair use policy when your connection is used for standard home use.

That may be true where you live, but down here in NZ, unlimited means unlimited (on fibre). Our competitive ISP market means that all major ISPs have completely ditched their fair usage policies.

I regularly use well over 10TB a month and have never had any issues from multiple ISPs. We have a regulation-enforced split between ISPs and the line owners, meaning anyone can set up an ISP for a relatively low capital cost by leasing access to the last mile fibre lines to customers. As such, there are plenty of nation-wide ISPs here.

As the article says, this is basically an RDP client, along with cloud PCs presumably hosted in Azure, so yes.

Nope. Draconian DRM is still standard.

It's probably being blocked by your DNS-adblocker.

Presumably because, as the addon name suggests, it is a 'lite' blocker. Declarative network blocking is much more efficient than script injections, so that is used exclusively.

If you want cosmetic filtering, the original uBO is always available.

This new addon can't do any cosmetic filtering. It doesn't run any code on the page, only declares filters for network requests.

> For example, Android phones (still!!!) don't support stateful DHCPv6.

That's Google's fault, not the protocol's.

GitHub has no modern IP support, so a system without a legacy IP is unable to pull anything from GitHub.

Only on legacy IP. We're trying to kill it.

A bit of pain will be necessary to finally get modern IP across the line of mainstream usage.

Hmm, I just tried the Bubbles preview on Win11, and it worked fine. Is it different when it's running 'for real'?

The patch is totally open source, and the project is rather high profile. Where exactly is the additional risk here?

From a security standpoint, What's the difference between using revanced's open source patches and downloading literally any open source software from GitHub?

Revanced is just an app with no special permission. It's not a firmware. It's open source. It can only patch an apk which you provide to it with standard android file-picker APIs.

He means the cap on the bitrate of the video that twitch will ingest. Twitch will then send this video to any number of viewers, as you say.

As always, a note needs to be attached to this link. Money donated to the Mozilla foundation goes exclusively to their advocacy work, and none goes to the Mozilla corporation, which develops Firefox.

And songbird, a media player.

Tailscale internally tries to punch NATs to make connections, but if it fails, it will use relay servers. These connections are throttled, and there'd probably be usage limits at some point.

If you allow tailscale through by using ipv6 or port forwards, tunnels will run at line speed with no limits.

42% of the internet uses v6, and rising. The economic incentives for ISPs absolutely exist, as v4 addresses become ever more expensive and the cost of CG-NAT deployments continue to climb.

In that situation, don't connect to your pi hole using its GUA (global address, starting with 2), connect with it's ULA (link-local address, starting with f). Link local addresses are not routed outside your LAN, so they don't change when your ISP changes your prefix.

Thank you, Matthew! This would be fantastic information to include in the Synapse documentation, for those of us being seduced by the operational simplicity of SQLite, and posts like this. :)

I have wondered why Synapse, the most feature-complete Matrix homeserver, so vehemently recommends against use of SQLite as it's backing db. They say that the performance is insufficient and it's only appropiate for testing purposes.

That would make sense if you assume that Synapse is only going to be used in instances with hundreds/thousands of users, but plenty of people host their own instances for themselves only. Surely SQLite would be plenty for single-user instances, or family instances?

In this context, "crypto bullshit" always refers to the currency.