This is my take on it as well. My phone is for basic quick communication. My real productivity happens on my laptop and desktop.

Honestly, that still would not be enough to change my opinion here about Work From Home. We have the systems and tools at our disposal to make the office life redundant. The notion that work from home employees largely abuse the privilege is simply an opinion without any hard facts to back it up. Indeed it is actually the opposite. Employees are happier and more productive. A minority may abuse the privilege but those are the ones you fire for cause. You don’t end a system that works overwhelming well. That would be kind of like scrapping a car because there is a small scratch on it.

The old notion of having to punch a clock is over as well!

That’s really cool but still out of my price range.

Sadly, I suspected as much. 😿

Dang! Yeah, I looked at getting an Ampere proc and the price just for the proc was like 5K. Um, hang on while I shit out 5K. 🫠😆

I mean I was hoping that I could build a desktop PC like, say, you would with an AMD or Intel processor but with an ARM64 instead. I probably should have specified that. Sorry.

It is very possible to do this! What you need to do is to rent a low-end cloud VPS. Even a 5.00 digital ocean droplet running Ubuntu Linux would do the trick. Then you run an NGINX Proxy Manager reverse proxy with a WireGuard tunnel to the machine that will act as a server for your instance. From there you, you simply set up Let’s Encrypt certificates to use with your intended domain. Even though I am not behind CGNAT, I do this and it works very well.

EDIT: If you intend to do this entirely in open source and need some help, I’ll offer it. I am pretty passionate about open source and helping others out along the way.

The fediverse takes the corporate out of social media!

The fediverse and the surge in open source has made the internet fun again. I haven’t had this much fun with the internet since the mid to late 90s.

Agreed! Also smaller packet sizes.

It is very area dependent and what path your data takes. It just so happens that the pathway that my data takes to reach Hurricane Electric’s server in NYC is really optimal. I have latency comparable to a native IPv6 network. It’s certainly better than my ISP, Verizon’s, native IPv6 in my area where my data goes to Virginia and then back to NYC.

I have IPv6 connectivity through Verizon FiOS. The trouble is that in my area it is poorly implemented and markedly slower than IPv4. I would much rather use 6 but not at a performance penalty.

You could use an IPv6 tunnel broker service. I know Hurricane Electric offers a service free of charge. I use it and it’s not bad. Hurricane Electric also has an IPv6 tutorial. See (https://www.he.net)

Verizon, my ISP, offers IPv6 in my area but the implementation is broken and it ends up being an order of magnitude slower than simply using IPv4 and HE as an IPv6 tunnel broker.

The same goes for my place of work. It’s going to be shit loads of fun when we are forcibly transitioned. I hope before that time I will be doing web development work and kissing my professional career in infrastructure good bye.

This is my thought. It’s about time greater adoption of IPv6 happens. As much as I don’t like corporations getting greedier, in this case however, Amazon is doing us a favor by spurring IPv6 adoption on.

Ostensibly you subscribed to some technology communities. The fediverse tends to attract a lot of IT professionals and hobbyists of which I am both. We tend to want to keep abreast of the latest technologies and trends.

I choose to spell the country I live in as America.

Very cool! That did not look easy to do.

In this case you may be right. I don’t really know. Maybe it is 345 million in obsolete military hardware. 🤷