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I don't think users should reward the behaviour. If they actually lost money because of these decisions, they would stop making those decisions.

But, we both know enough people will bend over and take it.

But, in terms of cost it can be a good move. It's just for us, it makes at best, no difference.

Pretty much how it always works with business.

Well, I would say it SHOULD bring overall prices down. If the cost to build the top of the line model comes down to say the same as the mid-range model AND more people are say buying up. It means that competition would push overall prices down.

But of course not, it benefits the companies most, and given the choice of lower prices or more profit, they'll choose the profit every time.

If they go subscription only (because recurring revenue is the current business buzzword, so of course they will go subscription only) then overall cost for the life of the car will definitely be higher yet "feel" more affordable.

You can check to see if you can enable hardware transcoding. I find the delay is usually transcoding building up a buffer and if you have a good GPU/APU in your server it's often a lot quicker.

Pretty sure on jellyfin by default that is off. Mainly because you need to install some packages to get the devices available under linux usually.

Now, I can "kinda" see the rationale behind optional features on a car being either enabled via software or subscription. I believe the permanent enable price should be the same as if you added the hardware to the car as an option.

As to why this might make sense for a carmaker. In my work I've visited car manufacturers before, and from what I could see it's quite expensive and adds time to support the various options when building a car. You see they have the main production line, and units are pulled off the main line to fit the options at various points and then reinserted and this causes problems for efficiency and price per unit I think.

So, there's probably a cost saving to making the base car have all the options fitted and having a completely standardized production line. However, the expense is likely going to mean if they sold the base car at the usual base car price they would either lose money, or at the very least, the profit margin wouldn't be worthwhile.

However, if you know a certain percentage of people will want the options, and you can enable it with software later, it's possible building the hardware into every car as standard would work out overall cheaper. They might also be able to upsell to more people by making a subscription option, perhaps with maybe a free trial for the first say 3 months of ownership. That is, they turn everything on for 6 months for free, then revert you to the package you paid for. Hoping that you liked some of the features and will pay or subscribe to keep them.

What I don't like is when this stuff might become ONLY available as a subscription, the overall move toward subscription models for everything irks me a lot. I'd much prefer we still get to choose a package, and have the ability to upgrade later.

So I think my point is, the argument "the hardware is there anyway" doesn't really work, because they are likely going to install the hardware at a loss, on the assumption (backed up by their own numbers) they will sell enough to make a bigger profit overall.

They also likely bake into the numbers that a very small number of people will hack the car and enable the features anyway. The vast majority will not do this, though.

I did think of a few ways round it (in kbin/mbin) a year or so ago. But, it wouldn't work unless everyone using ActivityPub recognized it. It's also really a small problem in reality. It's likes and dislikes.

Yes, and no. A firewall is still a firewall if it is configured to have all ports open. The Linux kernel firewall is still active, even though its default configuration is, everything open.

My point is, for some reason there are some that are not configured to block incoming IPv6 by default. When that should be the standard home/consumer router default setting. Then the user can open ports to ips as they need them.

You can, and there's a specific flag to set on nd/ra to tell the client to get other information from djcpv6. But so far I've not made it work and also, it likely won't work on android.

Really the way forward is for routers and devices to implement the same options as exist on dhcp. But, time will tell how that gets on.

This is a weakness of ipv6 but it's really the lack of widespread implementation that's behind this. If we were all using it, there would be more onus to get this stuff working.

I think it depends on all the caveats I mentioned. If it could have worked with an outgoing connection, then someone with a bad client could execute it for sure. The VPN wouldn't protect you.

Dhcpv6-pd is used by isps for prefix delegation, which most routers support now (not so when my isp first started with it).

But for advertising prefixes on a lan most networks use router adverts.

They're different use cases though.

You can include some information in router advertisements, likely there will be rfcs for more. Not sure of the full list of stuff you can advertise.

For sure I'm quite sure I had dns servers configured this way. I'll check when not on a phone to see what options there are.

Best thing to do to test the firewall is run some kind of server and try to connect to your ipv6 on that port.

Like I've said in other posts, routers really should block incoming connections by default. But it's not always the case that they do.