Comment by superchicken099
3 days ago
If your solution is that “if everyone just used IPv6 we wouldn’t have this problem” then it’s not a solution. Standards like USB, Wi-Fi, HDMI, DP, etc. are so successful because they are by out-of-the-box backwards compatible with their predecessors.
>HDMI, DP, etc. are so successful because they are by out-of-the-box backwards compatible with their predecessors
Takes on Hacker News can truly be wild sometimes.
I certainly don't recall being able to use DP on a VGA monitor without some sort of adapter!
You missed the part where DP didn't come with it's own Audio Codec and GPU architecture. Of course, I am exaggerating, but the point is that the problem with IPv6 is not just that it suffers from bad design on merit, it also critically suffers from scope creep. We wanted a larger IP space, instead we got network discovery and globally unique cookies as a bundle deal, with a whole lot of other crap.
> You missed the part where DP didn't come with it's own Audio Codec and GPU architecture
Do you think supporting dp is as easy as just slapping a 50 cent port on the side of the display??
> but the point is that the problem with IPv6 is not just that it suffers from bad design on merit
It doesn't.
> instead we got network discovery and globally unique cookies as a bundle deal, with a whole lot of other crap.
How does any of this apply to people not replacing hardware that is ipv4 only?
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