I’ve almost seen zero ads in about 15 years. I use all the types of adblockers: browser extensions and dns-based. I don’t use traditional TV or movie theatres. I don’t read printed magasines. So really, really close to no ads in 15 years. Yesterday I went to the fueling station with my car: there was nobody else. They changed the station so now, there’s screens showing ads and really loud audio. Since there was nobody else, I could hear all 8 pump’s ads screaming at the same time. It was really dystopian and overstimulating. I only managed to put like 5 litres and I couldn’t stand it, I was screaming at the screen to stop shouting at me. I did pay my 5 litres that I put in, but I left for another gas station. I will never return to that one, which was my usual one.

FreeDOS’ latest version is from 2025. Guess they would be required to comply. They don’t even have user accounts…

On Steam, in am often 126 years old.

Incorrect. Linux can run on conputers from the 1990s. That computer is newer than that. It is not the minimum requirements.

All these GPU fans starting to spin to analyse my diarrhea.

Just use matrix or xmpp. Signal is centralized. If they stop offering the service it’s gone forever.

Just perform a safety squint.

How times have changed. If you have used Windows 98, you were always the administrator. Your five years old brother could actually go around deleting random system files.

For a short moment, I thought it was a legit teletype…

You are confusing unique local adresses and link local addresses. Unique local adresses can only be configured manually or, in theory, with DHCPv6. On Debian, I edit the file “/etc/network/interfaces.d/<interface name>”:

• auto <interface name>
• iface <interface name> inet dhcp
• iface <interface name> inet6 static

•     address <unique local adress of your choice within the official range>
  

•     autoconf 1
  

•     accept_ra 2
  

•     privext
  

This gives you: autoconfigured IPv4 address, autoconfigured (slaac) IPv6 address, an IPv6 unique local address, temporary IPv6 adresses (privacy extensions) and your IPv6 link local address.

Yes, your ISP provides you a large quantity of adresses. Not really, the adresses has several parts. Your ISP provides you with the prefix. Your devices complete the rest of the address automatically. You can also use a DHCPv6 server, but I don’t and some devices don’t support it anyway. Yes, all those adresses are globally routable, they are “Internet” adresses. You can still use locally routable adresses too if you want, called Unique local address (look it up on Wikipedia), but that requires manual configuration.

If you don’t use IPv6, you are behind. For me the transition was so hard, it’s a big step behind me, wouldn’t want to do it again.