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That’s exactly what is so nice about FOSS based systems. You can use technology but without the tech bros and the corporate enshittification.

We need the new version of this gif!

Oh it’s way more than that!

After looking up some numbers, I note we could give every single square MILLIMETER on the planet its own entire IPv4 address space.

…And then every one of those IPv4 addresses could have its own entire copy of the IPv4 address space!

…And that would just be a drop in the bucket compared with IPv6! One good comparison I’ve seen is that you could assign an address to every atom on the surface of the earth (but not inside it) and have enough left over for 100+ more earths.

Rough math for the square millimeters:

The surface area of the earth is roughly 510 trillion square millimeters. Let’s round that up to a quadrillion or 10^15^.

The number of IPv6 addresses is 2^128^ or 3.4x10^38^. To be conservative again, let’s just round that down to 10^38^.

10^38^ / 10^15^ = 10^23^ IPv6 addresses per square mm of earth.

IPv4 address space is 2^32^ or around 4 billion. let’s round up to 10 billion or 10^10^.

So then 10^23^ / 10^10^ = 10^13^ IPv6 addresses per IPv4 address per square mm of earth.

10^13^ / 10^10^ =

1,000 IPv6 addresses

per IPv4 address

per IPv4 address

per square mm of earth.

And that was with the conservative estimates along the way. I think it would actually be tens of thousands.

I have found a bunch of my new favorite songs this year on Jellyfin. Some of them are pretty old too, lol.

It worked pretty well doing it the old human-based way, where I got a bunch of albums because I liked the band or even just a particular song. Listening through those or just playing the whole pile on shuffle led me to find plenty of gems that I stuck in my playlist.

You would NOT believe-… ok honestly everybody reading this already knows.

But there are SO many people that will offer confident unprompted incorrect advice on so many subjects while they have the sum of human knowledge in their pocket. Or they will ask some dummy for the answer while having that same access.

And the best part is that many of them use their literal human knowledgebase portal to send the wrong information!

It's nature that will survive, not us.

This is a good thing to point out, because we create many of our own problems by trying to pretend that humanity is a separate and distinct thing from nature.

Some of us are old enough to have a functional pre-enshittifation Brother B/W laser printer off in a dark corner of the house. It waits. It bides its time. It has a toner cartridge from the Obama administration.

Today’s greybeards might show the youngins their old box of punch cards.

The next generation, in addition to many elders wearing cat ears instead of beards, will astonish the junior engineers by clicking print and it just works!! No App? No account? No subscriptions? No driver installation? No giant bloated utility pack that installed itself when you just asked for drivers? Wait and it did that over Wi-Fi?!?! It can connect to the internet and it still does the things you ask it to do?

Whoa whoa whoa, and you don’t even have your printer gun here! How are you going to shoot it when it starts making new noises after a shady forced update?

I want to go full cyberpunk and get QR codes tattooed on my cheeks that will either crash the cameras or tell the recognition software that I’m a stegosaurus.

So yeah, many people could use that kind of tough love and reconnecting with the basic realities of life. It would legitimately improve the mental and physical health of the population too.

Unfortunately the conservatives have already claimed the strategy of starving the young and the infirm because their parents or caretakers aren’t good enough worker bees.

Well yeah sure. And the entire Earth could be vaporized and the rest of the universe wouldn’t be affected at all. It’s all about what context and scope we want to discuss.

Most of the CO2 in coal was trapped 300 million years ago. I am going to assume without further research that we as a civilization would absolutely not like to return to the atmosphere composition of 300,000,000 BCE.

I know. Cry me a river as you take yourselves out, right? If we take most of the biosphere with us though, that’s even more tragic on top of everything.

Funny how that’s almost always relevant in these messed up situations.

But this might transcend that a bit. If we shifted to a decent system that put humans first, we would still need agriculture at the same huge scale even if it was managed by communities and co-ops. Many jobs in that sector that are filled by cheap undocumented migrants are already ones that Americans won’t do. I could see there still being an issue getting the work done.

Of course, if individuals were more involved in the sourcing of their food and even worked outside on some gardening, it would benefit them greatly. We’d want whole education campaigns to help with that.

unless we go out of our way and poison the ocean

We don’t really have to do anything extra. The CO2 alone is already acidifying the ocean in addition to the temperature increases that also kill things.