customdesigned @customdesigned@qoto.org

For anyone using the DHCPv6 client app (be.mygod.dhcpv6client) on a recent version of Android, here's something that might save you some frustration - I learned it the hard way.

In theory, you'd only need the app to run occasionally if your leasetimes are reasonably long, so it's tempting to try and save battery by not exempting it from background restrictions. I figured I'd be clever and rig up a trigger to fire it every day plus whenever I reconnected to the network, which is probably cheaper than running a separate app constantly. And lo and behold, my wifi just couldn't hold a connection anymore.

After a lot of troubleshooting, it turns out that, when the app is killed off by the system, the underlying library removes any addresses it's acquired. On its face, this doesn't seem so bad, as the network should revert to IPv4-only after those addresses are removed. But it gets worse: because you stop receiving IPv6 traffic immediately, but the connectivity check takes a while to invalidate the cached IPv6 address it's monitoring, Android will interpret the fact that it's no longer receiving responses as evidence that the network failed. So your phone disconnects from the wifi - and if the whole cycle triggers on every connection, you'll never get more than about a minute of connectivity before it all comes crashing down.

So as far as I can tell, there's no alternative but to exempt it from background restrictions, and leave it running constantly even though you only need it to exchange a couple packets with the router every 24 hours. If anyone figures out a way to overcome this, I'd love to hear about it. Otherwise, I hope this helps someone else facing similar frustrations.

#android
#ipv6
#dhcp
#dhcpv6

🚨Guys, I thought that there was no Graphene Oxide in the Covid Vax? So, what is this?

#StoptheShots #Nuremberg2 #markofthebeast #vaxtruth

So I am starting a #FLOSS HAM community.. Think apache for Ham radio. The idea is to address the state of open source software and standards in HAM radio.

Anyone, particularly open-source devs have any interest in talking to me about this, even if its just to make sure their ideas are considered as I launch... but people who want to help more directly are welcome too.

#HAM #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #Amateur #Rf #Radio

Check out the #FlockToFedora panel I'm participating in tomorrow about collaboration & cooperating in the EL ecosystem. It's at 8:30AM EST and can be lived streamed from https://flock2023.sched.com/event/1Or6Q/panel-upstream-collaboration-cooperation-in-the-enterprise-linux-ecosystem

@almalinux @fedora #centos #redhat @rockylinux

@PtrebliG @lowqualityfacts Well I'm glad someone is finally brave enough to tell us that jokes effectively equal disinformation, because someone might have actually believed that a chicken crossed a road for some far fetched reason, and we don't want this kind of thing destroying democracy.

THINGS ONE LEARNS FROM LIVING IN ARKANSAS:

1) A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.
2) There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in Arkansas .
3) There are 10,000 types of spiders, and all 10,000 of them live in Arkansas .
4) If it grows, it'll stick ya. If it crawls, it'll bite cha.
5) Onced" and "Twiced" are words.
6) It is not a shopping cart, it's a buggy.
7) A nit naughty so I edited.
8) People actually grow and eat okra.
9) "Fixinto" is one word.
10) There is no such thing as lunch. There is only dinner and then there is supper...
11) Iced tea is appropriate for all meals, and you start drinking it when you're two. We do like a little tea with our sugar.
12) Backwards and forwards means, "I know everythin' 'bout you.
13) The word "jeet" is actually a phrase meaning, "Did you eat?"
14) You don't have to wear a watch, because it doesn't matter what time it is. You work until you're done or it's too dark to see...
15) You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH 'em.
16) You measure distance in minutes.
17) You switch from heat to A/C in the same day.
18) All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect, or animal.
19) You know what a "Dawg" is.
20) You carry jumper cables in your car - for your own car.
21) You only own five spices: salt, pepper, Tony Chachere's, Tabasco , and ketchup.
22) The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local gossip and Arkansas football...
23) You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
24) You find 100 degrees "a bit warm."
25) You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.
26) Going to Walmart is a favorite past time known as "Goin' Walmartin" or "off to Wally World."
27) You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good gumbo weather.
28) Fried catfish is the other white meat.
29) We don't need no dang Driver's Ed. . . if our mama says we can drive, we can drive.
30) You understand these jokes and forward them to your Arkansas friends and those who just wish they were from Arkansas !!!!!

ooh! Pick me, pick me!