My ISp shares a single IPv4 between multiple customers, NAT 444.

So my PC is on 192.168.1.4 on the LAN, my router is on 10.183.13.62 on my ISPs network and some number of customers are sharing 84.146.73.54

They don't give out IPv6 addresses though.

Shit. I've been waiting for IPv6 for 20 years.

Funnily enough I recently had to disable ipv4 in a game because of connection issues.

I don't think that's bold.
It's already at 25% last month and 50+% in China.

I think the EU has plans to stop the sale of ICEs in 10 years, so... that could start a snowball effect.

I believe this.. But the USA being an exception

self-inflicted, if they played nice we would all be printing from home.

upside is less paper waste

I’ve found myself needing to print something only 1-2 times per year, so I just go to the library to do it. E-waste-wise, this change is for the better

Most of my print jobs... maybe one a month, are for either artistic reasons or for making labels to stick on things.

I do still print tickets out of habit though, just in case I lose/forget my phone or drain the battery that day, though this has literally never happened.

Unless you're trying to use one. Then they're always broken.

German government has entered the chat landline

Fun? Fact, I'm in my mid twenties and have never used them.

i completely agree, though i hope that eventually we can settle on something like Cerabyte for long term archival storage.

If burned properly they hold storage for a very long time without data loss

They also need very particular storage conditions (temperature and humidity in particular), otherwise they will discrot. But yeah they are likely to store data for longer than solid-state media at least.

Most people connected to the Internet today have never owned a desktop computer nor an HDD. A crazy amount of people have been introduced to computing with smartphones.

As a homelabber, this makes me sad. Perhaps enshittification will push people back into home/local computing.

I don't know of any millennial or younger who assumes there will be a safety net for them at the end of the road. We just don't trust those in charge to keep it. I'll fight for it, I paid into it and I want others to have it, but I can't bank on it either

Fuck that, we'll burn it all down if they take social security from us. It's largely paid from existing taxes as it is. We just need to get through this shit show of an administration first. That or pray Mario shows up

If things continue on the path they're already on, it will get worse, sadly. At least that's my opinion. I really hope it dies out.

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anime without dimming

So that's the secret! When I first noticed this happening I thought I was a little bit crazy lol.

Honestly I would say it might go the other way with laptops disappearing and being replaced with tablets.

The operating systems and software on tablets is getting ever more capable even for productivity stuff. Add to that newer generations growing up while using mostly smartphones and maybe sometimes a computer and I believe if having to decide they would choose a tablet over a laptop. In general the line between laptops and tablets is getting a bit blurry with windows based tablet PC's and tablets that come with a keyboard cover.

RIP PDAs with keyboard. Another form factor I miss

Unless digital artists are replaced with AI entirely, I don't see that happening. iPads (unfortunately) are kind of the golden standard there. If anything I expect drawing tablets without screens to disappear.

Birds aren't real

Here's hoping that some USB flavors will be phased out, but then again, fucking TIFF is still around, so...

Nah, that shit will probably outlive all of us. As the last humans are struggling to survive in the hot hell they used to call earth, someone somewhere will be making a device with USB A <-> Micro B cable included in the box.

I mean flash drives, SD card and others are just as good as DVDs these days and are getting cheaper and cheaper by the day so I cannot really see why people would want DVDs and Blue Rays these days

They'll never come back because studios will never release new movies on them.

Piracy is coming back strong, but I don't personally see myself going back to burning DVDs instead of buying HDD/SSDs.

Apparently theres a rise in demand for "dumb TVs", to the point people are paying a premium...no sources, I read it on Lemmy.

I just hope that something like GNU Taler (which keeps buyers' privacy and forces sellers to report their earnings properly) becomes the norm, as opposed to the proprietary plastic card transactions we have now. I myself am guilty of switching to that system because cash is just insanely inconvenient, but I also recognize it's pretty bad.

Why would it be a failure? I loved never having to carry anything but a phone in China.

Unless something huge and world-altering happens, there is a 100% chance that it will not disappear in ten years. That would take generations because of the outliers. Although it will massively reduce in usage, and it wouldn't surprise me if non-food stores begin to phase out cash purchases in a decade.

China is already demonstrating this, since pretty much everything is paid for with a phone these days. And some vendors are using "no cash" signs.