SLAAC basically means your routable IPv6 address changes so many times in a day (and there are multiple of those at any given instant) that even if the attackers know your prefix, its going to be very difficult to do anything meaningful. the address space is too big.

And we are assuming here that there is no firewall.

Note : macOS firewall on a new install is disabled iirc.

Here is something I noticed: More present in the real world (no more head buried in the phone, neck feels better too). Less social comparisons (the worst part of social media that people don't understand). Depression and anxiety got better. Believe it or not but my quality of social interactions vastly improved after quitting social media. I also no longer take my phone out for pictures unnecessarily. There is no platform to show or compare or share. So I just take pictures for myself when I want to remember something and live the experience for just me. This is not selfish, this is just how reality is. But given that I am more present, I actually engage in the world and remember things as they are cause I am not distracted. I am mindful.

I have been an advocate for a while that social media is a really bad thing. My entire family is so addicted to all this. Mindfulness is the most important part. People are subconsciously comparing their lives to this world and it's driving their decision. Children are sitting with phones scrolling. I really find it concerning that people don't see this as a serious problem.

Get rid of it and don't think twice. The people really important and close to you will either call you or meet you for a meal. Everyone else was probably just a casual connection.

That's the irony of social media to me. Thinking back to it's genesis I really thought of it as a way to connect "grandma" to the family and share pictures with her. At the time there weren't many great technical solutions for this and the average grandma was not technically capable enough to do much more than login and check facebook now and again.

Once the fundamental problem got solved the tone and scope of social media slowly changed as the networks lost users and struggled to maintain a high MAUs to shove ads into the face of.

> The people really important and close to you will either call you or meet you for a meal.

Which is easier now than it ever has been.

The best part to me is not mediating all experience through this filter of post worthiness.

I can remember anything I would learn or experience would be quickly interrupted by the thought of the possibility and worthiness of sharing what I just learned or experienced.

I would be lying if I said I am not more disconnected from people than I would be otherwise but social media gives me a form of a learning disability because of the post worthiness filter.

It all depends on service network and value for money. And now charging network and range. People who find a way to give you value for money will probably nail it.

Personally I’ve found that a single monitor is enough 90% of the time while coding. It’s when I need to do something nitty gritty that I need a second monitor.

That being said working with only a laptop is painful and extremely uncomfortable for the posture. I don’t think I can get anything real done without a monitor keyboard and mouse. Going down to an 11 inch iPad sounds impossible.

I think it's called Displaylink. yet to try it with this particular benq but I know it can be done. The total output pixels are limited though so I doubt what the limitation of the Air is. but 2 24 inch 1080p should be doable.

It ISN'T in this day and age. People don't switch back and forth between iOS and Android like it's still 2010. They use whatever they got locken in initially since their first smartphone or where Apple's green/blue-bubble issue pushed them to or what their family handed them down or what their close friend groups used to have.

People who've been using iOS for 6+ years will 98% stick to iOS for their next purchase and won't even bother look at Android no matter what features Android were to add.

The Android vs iOS war is as dead as the console war. There's no competition anymore, it's just picking one from a duopoly of vendor lock-ins.

Even if EU were to break some of the lockins, people have familiarity bias and will stick with inertia of what they're used to, so it will not move the market share needle one bit.

Performance? We are many years past the point somebody cared about performance. I am writing this on iphone 11 pro and the experience is almost exactly the same as current iOS.

You know what's not the same? Android became pretty great OS. I recently got older Pixel to see how GrapheneOS works and was surprised about Android (which i havent seen for a decade). iOS on the other hand has recently gone trough with very bad ui redesign for no reason.

Imho the main thing Apple has going for it is that Google is spyware company and Apple is still mainly hardware company. But if Apple decides to pull their users data to gemini… well good luck.

>I am spending time using software, learning, and having fun - instead of maintaining it and stressing out about it.

Using software, learning and having fun with with what? everything is being done by Claude here. The part of fun and learning is to learn to use and maintain it in the first place. How will you learn anything if Claude is doing everything for you ? You are not understand how things work and where everything goes.

This post could be written or at least modified by an LLM, but more importantly I think this person is completely missing the point of self hosting and learning.

I did it! Except you didn't and you don't know anything about what it did or learned anything along the way. Success?

If you want to do basic stuff like browsing streaming learning video calls etc, get a non Linux computer with decent specs with some headroom. These operating systems are for people who just want to use that ecosystem and not need to manage anything themselves. Battery life is exceptional. Most people I know need a one or two step process to do things (like backup photos contacts documents etc) and Apple google Microsoft offer you that. It’s not perfect but it’s easy to manage. People really have gotten used to someone managing it for them and these things do fine in that regard. It’s better than people having 5 hard drives with photos and misplacing them imo. I’ve had people in 2000s connect drives to my computers and find private pictures and contacts and files etc I need not be having access to. iCloud and Google Photos offer you that peace of mind. With 2FA you’d rather lose it all than fall into the wrong hands. People have all kinds of stuff on their phones and computers that should not leave their computers and accounts. Imagine having your kids classmates find your intimate pictures on some drive they used to copy something your kid gave them. All this has reduced with cloud managed services with activation locks and 2FA and password mangers built into them. Yes they can lock you out one day, but it’s better than people having access to it.

If you are serious about your personal computer, switch to Linux before you start hating those companies. You are not the target audience anymore and you shouldn’t be disappointed about it.

I use Linux for most things, macOS for streaming and surfing the web (private relay and 4k native works great on M1) and windows when I have to deal with others having windows only accounting software sometime.

The trends decide the standard. Many EVs use 18650 but I can see that for competition and weight reduction they may switch to a more proprietary standard like blade batteries in BYD for competition. It all depends on where the competition is going with it.

For earwear, I would say that portability and weight is a big area for competition.