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I'm a systems engineer, and not even a good one.

I'm on the fediverse to have fun. So, if what you want to discuss with me is superficial, or boring, don't waste your time.

The LOL;) is the most important thing, down here.

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Religion: Dudeism (I'm an officially ordained dude priest), pastafarianism.

absc bonked 10 Dec 2025 20:53 +0100
original: nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe

unspecified horror

unspecified horror

Is there a Guinness World Record for the longest living Nintendo NES cartridge with a working, original save battery? Because I have an original gold cartridge The Legend of Zelda from 1986 that still works. I'm convinced the battery is made of thorium at this point.

absc honked back 05 Dec 2025 13:03 +0100
in reply to: https://x.keinpfusch.net/users/uriel/statuses/01KBPX3NWYEH4QQJMMB73MXBXN

@uriel

I know that you are right :).

However, my provider doesn't even sell IPv4 addresses anymore to home users and no, it would be stupid for a just a homelab to pay double o triple the current price for a business plan.

I use netitier right now, a small free service kindly provided by @kasperd, where you just map an A record with the service IP along to the related AAAA one. It works, by acting as a middleman between the IPv4 and the IPv6 world for a set of different services, but makes things a bit harder to manage on the DNS side. Not that big of a deal, but for a personal thing do I really need it?

The only services I'm worried a bit about are:

  • Activitypub federation.
  • E-mail.

For the former the issue may be obvious: I have my instance on IPv6 and other instances are IPv4 only, those are not going to communicate.

For the e-mail: unfortunately I still really need it. The situation is less problematic there.

As for the blog or website. Well, who cares :)

As I've added a new board to my homelab to only act as firewall and reverse proxy just today, it may be time to see how it goes.

It will always be possible to revert, in the end.

absc honked 05 Dec 2025 09:15 +0100

Really thinking about going IPv6 only.....