It's a bit of a joke. I can break outgoing 000 calls on a Pixel 9a with a perfectly reasonable network setup. Nobody can roll a stable radio firmware these days.
Programmers need to respect other people's hardware. A 4TB HDD currently costs more than it did a decade ago.
My data is stored on a mirrored RAID, and backed up on two alternating offsite drives. For every TB of space I use, I buy 4. I do not consider this negotiable.
I don't back up game installs, but by point remains valid. 90% of hardware advances gets pissed away by bloated shitcode. I see it every day.
This vibes like that scene in Dumb and Dumber where Harry is standing next to a fire complaining that his fingers are about to fall off, and Lloyd says "you should take these extra gloves. Mine are getting sweaty".
This game currently consumes 30% of the hard drive on my main PC.
I'm impressed by the technical feat, but am also annoyed that they knew they were wasting this much space and simply did not care. I'm betting every 100GB game is like this.
Australia is terrible at this. We do nothing but digging holes and shipping coals. Somehow the fact that we manufacure fuck-all and ship everything in from PRC absolves us of any responsibility.
An Aussie politician would step over 1000 virgins to fuck the environment.
I would argue that you don't need a VPN. It's just another entity that can see your traffic, and there's no reason to trust them over your ISP. They're all for-profit companies.
The main benenfit is not having to deal with NAT. You get your own address and your traffic is not conflated with other people's.
You also get privacy extensions. Your device generates a temporary address for making outgoing connections. The address has no listening sockets. This means that you cannot get portscanned by every website you visit.
You don't need to try and figure out your external IP address. There's no differentiation between internal/external addresses. They're all global, as the internet was intended.
You can throw as many IP addresses on an interface as you want. If you want to run two web servers from one machine, you can have multiple addresses with different services on port 443.
It's a bit of a joke. I can break outgoing 000 calls on a Pixel 9a with a perfectly reasonable network setup. Nobody can roll a stable radio firmware these days.