I wonder if the eradication of the heroin supply from Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover has had an effect?

Possibly re-directed some of the fentanyl to other markets where addicts could no longer get heroin? Thus reducing supply elsewhere?

At least in Europe the heroin gap was mostly filled with crack from Latin America.

iPhones regularly do these queries before / in addition to to A/AAAA. They’re used for more than ECH.

Agreed the author here just dumps data but nothing that seems to be designed to disrupt comms in Venezuela is really mentioned.

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You need to take care of them though. Scratched CDs don’t play good.

For me there is no point storing digital music on optical discs. Easier to steam it or listen from a hard drive.

On the other hand the larger format of vinyl and rather peculiar way it works scratches the “tactile” part of what makes physical attractive a lot more.

Each to their own of course but that’s me.

The discs are your backups.

(You can of course also back up the rips, but you have the disc as origin, and as an option for re-ripping at higher or lower quality, etc.)

Nah. There are lots of things you’ll need to know.

Does it use SLAAC on the WAN side or DHCPv6? How do I get a range for my lan then, DHCPv6 prefix-delegation? Or maybe it’s statically assigned somehow. Some carrier’s just use link-local ok the WAN, with no public v6 just RAs for the link-local, and a GUA block via IA_PD.

Regardless there are too many ways this is done, and this hampers adoption as it’s not just the “switch it on” operation you suggest.

All of those are handled automatically. The only people who have problems are ones who want to configure manually. More importantly, this is no different than IPv4 where have DHCP or manual.

Nearly every ISP uses DHCPv6-PD cause harder for manual configuration. The range is in the DHCP-PD, your router picks a subnet. The WAN address is automatic, and don't care about it cause never see it. Mine is link-local and hadn't known until I checked.

Probably the largest barrier to IPv6 adoption is the myriad ways IP allocation to clients can be done and the various options that exist.

It’s fine for mobile providers, where the client activation defines what’s needed and the carrier essentially just needs to support two OS’s (iOS and Android).

Also mostly fine for residential when the carrier provides the CPE, and can set it up to work with how they have the network built.

But if you’re managing your own router it can be complex to know exactly what to use. And most ISP support aren’t very good either.

If you happen to be an expert it’s fine, but if you’re a power user not a full time network guy there is still way more complexity than there ought to be.

No, because unfortunately the need for v4 hasn’t changed. In other words many sites and parts of the internet remain only on v4.

Until nearly everything is on v6 too it won’t be realistic to ditch the mechanisms that provide v4 access.