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  • Simple question but can be a complex answer. Basically it depends where your phone gets DNS from: if it’s using the ISP DNS (or some other public DNS server) it will resolve the public internet IP of your server and the data will route out to the ISP WAN before being routed back in.

    On the other hand you can configure a split DNS system, so say you are using your modem/gateway as your DNS server and it forwards DNS queries up to your ISP (or other) DNS server - a common setup, 1. you can add in a static host entry for your local server. Eg ‘yourservice.yourserverdomain.com = 192.168.1.20 (your server’s LAN IP)’

    Now when your phone is on the WiFi and it looks up your server’s address it gets the local IP and routes locally, which will be faster.

    If you need more info, search for terms like ‘reverse proxy split DNS best practice’.





  • Nah man. Windows 10 was full of telemetry from day 1. It was the first version of Windows that hid away the ability to even use a local-only login, trying to push every user onto a MS account for that sweet tracking and advertising dollar.

    They even gave the OS away for free - absolutely unthinkable to 90s/2000s era Microsoft, now why would that have changed?

    Pushing the users to their cloud offerings for those that they can tempt, and tracking, profiling, advertising for every user. From conception.


  • I can’t understand would it even have the part in parentheses in Europe. Think how silly it would look if every location had the regional name for every nearby country added in parentheses after the primary global name. It would be a mess.

    Eg:

    Germany (Deutschland, Allemagne, Niemcy, Germania, Saksa, <etc>)

    Feels to me like special rules Apple has to stroke special fascist egos.

    But maybe its not Apple and this is a name set by your local governance. You mind if I ask what country Apple maps you’re looking at?









  • It’s a rhetorical non-answer, “the 35th anniversary release was only available for a limited time because it was only available for a limited time”.

    There are hundreds of anniversary releases of games that are made permanently available - hence why people asked Nintendo why this one was given an artificially short availability so often that it became an FAQ question. They own the rights, they can sell it indefinitely if they want.

    Eg: search Steam for ‘anniversary’ you’ll find 600+ results.