@nygren I've deployed CGNAT on four networks now, and every single time I have to explain to managemeny, endlessly, that every byte of traffic we can offload to #IPv6 is a byte of traffic we didn't have to move through the expensive CGNAT stack.

IPv4 is expensive, IPv6 is cheap.

Things that make you cringe everytime you hear it.

I'll go first.

"The Internet was designed to survive a nuclear war."

No, it absolutely was not. And even if it was, any hope of survivabiluty in the face of widespread destruction died with mass commercialization of the network.

Damn thing can't handle individual backhoes, what makes you think it will handle thermonuclear weapons?

Don't even get me started on our overreliance on just a few cloud providers.

In my slow paced, but ever steady quest to eliminate my dependence on Google, I have recently moved my contacts to Nextcloud. The application I downloaded to perform the sync, DavX, also does tasks and calendars. This lead me down the rabbit hole of finding an Android calendar app that will actually let me _not_ sync the phone's Google account's calendar. For access to the official app store, I will have to keep a phone signed in to the evil, at least for now...

So, I ended up back in F-Droid and Accrescent looking for calendar apps, and I realized something. These alternate app stores are what the Android world _used_ to be like. They are full of wonderful tools, well designed, with your phone in mind. Finding useful software is a simple search or browse away. There is nary a clicker, idle, or pay to win game to be found. Most importantly, no fucking ads.

The alternate app stores are a glimpse into what corporate greed took from us. They are an example of the kind of things we could have if #enshitification wasn't the order of the day.