@landley @jschauma @ryanc @0xabad1dea yeah, the exhaustion problem would've been shoved back with a #64bit or sufficiently delayed by a 40bit number.

Unless we also hate #NAT and expect every device to have a unique static #IP (which is a #privacy nightmare at best that "#PrivacyExtensions" barely fixed.)

• I mean they could've also gone the #DECnet approach and use the #EUI48 / #MAC-Address (or #EUI64) as static addressing system, but that would've made #vendors and not #ISPs the powerful forces of allocation. (Similar to how technically the #ICCID dictates #GSM / #4G / #5G access and not the #IMEI unless places like Australia ban imported devices.

I guess using a #128bit address space was inspired by #ZFS doing the same before, as the folks who designed both wanted to design a solution that clearly will outlive them (way harder than COBOL has outlived Grace Hopper)...

• Personally I've only had headaches with #IPv6 because not only do I only have #IPv4only #Internet but my #ISP refuses to allocate even a singe /64 to me (but has no problem throwing in a free /29 of #IPv4's in with my contract!)and stuff like #HurricaneElectric / #HEnet's #Tunnelbroker fail face first due to #Geoblocking and the fact that #ASNs get geolocated, not their #PoPs...

If I was @BNetzA I would've mandated #DualStack and banned #CGNAT (or at least the use of CGNAT in #RFC1918 address spaces) as well as #DualStackLite!

@ryanc propably because #RaspberryPiOS just uses a linux-firmware metapackage from #Debian and they don't differenciate in their build process beyond #32bit and #64bit ?

@JessTheUnstill @bohwaz @punkfairie @ajsadauskas @tomiahonen @fuchsiii Exactly...

Coincidentially, that's why #Android (and #iOS) doesn't let users have #root access because billions of devices owned by mostly "#TechIlliterates" that hardly get #SecurityUpdates would be an even bigger risk if they didn't boot a locked-down #ROM image, thus only allowing for #malware in user-privilegued userspace!

• I'd even go so far that I'd wish for @torproject to basically merge fmr. #FirefoxOS / #KaiOS & @tails_live / @tails / #Tails to build a #privacy-focussed #ROM for #Smartphones and #Tablets i.e. "#TailsMobile" or sth.

Cuz having a mobile OS that shoves everything through #Tor and only allows #userspace-Apps in the form modern web technologies would be a big #security and #privacy gain.

• Not to mention #amd64 is on it's way out and inevitably they gotta have to transition to supporting #arm64 and eventually #RISCv-#64bit at some point.

@QueerMatters yeah, you can thank #Valve for not properly migrating #Steam on #Linux to do #64bit properly!!!

And yes, OFC some #minimalist #linux-#distro like #TinyCore also runs fine on it, which isn't a surprise given that it's a 20MB ISO and a 512MB RAM, of which 8MB are per default occupied for VRAM aka. the #i915GML's framebuffer.

Needless to say I've to see if @bunsenlabs even runs on this thing and I know that anything #64bit is a complete non-starter as it's just an #i586 / #ix86 machine, so any supported mainstream distro is a nope.

• Most likely #RasberryPiOS is the most up-to-date option with the biggest user community AFAICT...

@critical @captainepoch some TP-Link should do that, tho if you're in the #EU you can,thank @EUCommission for killing #OpenWRT support with absurd #Firmware lockdowns.

Personally I'd recommend to #DIY something with #pfSense and seperate #WiFi and #Routing...

• You may be able to snipe some cheap old Atom/Celeron machine that is #64bit, supports #AESni and has at least two NICs for under €50...

@animemer @thecatcollective
- in #RadioAstronomy, #GIMP is the standard since they use #64bit "Colour Space".
- #Audacity is the go-to solution for a lot of #RF and non-Voice/Music #Audio work.
- #WebCall (1:1 #E2EE) & #JitsiMeet (#Videoconferencing) are excellent tools being used for #Videocalling.
- @torproject #Tor is the go-to communications solution for state and non-state actors.
- #Monero is the black market currency #1

All are FLOSS'd!