killer feature for me at least would be to be able to net-play co-op games via emulatorjs in the browser. :)

I use and like rEFInd as my primary bootloader to dualboot Windows and Fedora.

Hackernews is obviously full of technical volks with need for encryption and what not, but I just like the macOS bootloader inspired looks that i could not replicate with grub.

We tried this at a LAN-Party in December and couldn't get it to run. I am happily trying it again for the next LAN-Party. Nice to see development on this project. :-)

Curious what your use case is as opposed to using the official LAN support? For me, I'm trying to get it working completely without internet, ie on a plane. It's so sad to me that built-in LAN requires an internet connection.

not all participants had an official copy of the game.

while i think that it is well worth it, i am not the person who pressures other people to buy things for a single-digit-attendence one-time get-to-gether LAN-party.

Xiaomi air purifiers do exactly that. Go by hours used.

At least in the older Version 3 that was still the case.

Apparently people still buy them, because they are cheap. It's the same with printers - the initial purchase price is low, then the consumables are expensive.

People really need to include the running costs into their calculations. The best deals aren't usually the cheapest machines.

And it is for the consumer to decide which path to take. Not the product itself.

Until the consumer complains that the air purifier isn't doing its job and thrashes the company online, and changes for a model from a competitors.

Most consumers aren't really capable of this type of nuance.

This sounds like a completely made up problem, I don’t think this ever happens.

A clogged filter is obviously full of dust and grime, anyone who can use a vacuum cleaner can understand that

> You don't just clean a filter and say I KNOW there is 12 months more.

Yes, you definitively do.

I am located in a defacto dust free location, but I use an air purifier to keep my pollen allergy under control when spring arives: This shitty DRM is telling me to change filters after X hours, because it ASSUMES it is clogged, even though it has no idea of the reality? No idea if the air is like in New Delhi or like in the north of Sweden?

Hell no! Thank you, but I can decide that on my own.

Yes, I own three of those but an earlier version (2) that comes without RFID sensor. And I use the filter waaaaay longer than the device wants me to. This DRM is just milking money out of the consumer and producing waste, nothing else.

My eyes can probably not tell if the filter is over its lifespan, but my pollen allergy definetly can tell if it still works.

They makes sense. Have you considered using another filter? A box fan with a hepa filter or one that has appropriate sized holes may even work better for pollen and also be washable by default. Did you want the smarts in it if any? I'm hooking a plantower sensor to a purifier or you can use the Ikea air quality detector to smart trigger it. https://esphome.io/components/sensor/pm1006.html

What I worry about in a fully adopted IPv6 world, are the old Games that run on IPv4 p2p. (like C&C3)

Sure, you can do a IPv4 VPN with your friends, but that means no more games with strangers over the internet.

Adoption of IPv6 by large organizations for their services doesn't make IPv4 go away.

And even if ISPs stopped issuing IPv4 addresses to end users, there's nothing stopping anyone from setting up a public VPN into an IPv4-based virtual LAN -- if there was demand for it, it could easily be offered by the same services you're currently using to find "strangers over the internet" right now.

I am curious: I had both my colonoscopy and gastroscopy while I was asleep. (On one procedure I woke up in the middle of it however. It felt like beeing drunk :-)) After the hospital I was happy and relaxed for the rest of the day.

There was no anestesist (extra doc) present in the procedure, so I assumed it was no general anesthesia. But I dont know. Was it?

I have had some gastroscopies done. For me they used some lidocaine (intravenous) and then propofol. This was done by a certified nurse anesthetist.

I don’t know the distinction between that and “general” anesthesia (they called this general), but I know there are different levels (and there was no need for breathing assistance at that level).

No it was not general anesthesia. I've had general anesthesia for a hemmorhoids surgery and it was a completely different thing than the intoxication I got for colonoscopy/gastroscopy!

General anesthesia is a big deal both for the patient and for the doctors/hospital.

I am curious: Could I in theory buy a IPv4 address, which I can use for the rest of my life? (given that I could convince my provider to route it)

You'd need to buy and have transferred a /24 (256) or more of "legacy" IPv4 that was allocated by IANA prior to the RIR system for your region. Then you could either convince your provider to route that block on your behalf or get an ASN and BGP peer at your local IX (or even over a tunnel to one). Getting it transferred to you may require setting up a business depending on your RIR.

All in all you could make the above happen for about the price of a lower end new car in the best case.

There are other ways to get non-legacy IPv4 assignments now but those are leased not owned.

Yes. Me and my father are daily driving PCs from 2007, because they are fine for what we do.