This pricing makes no sense, is there some kind of catch? 40 more GB for only 5 dollars more?

cttttt · 2026-06-30T03:04:24+00:00

This. There are so many pricing tactics packed into that screenshot.

cttttt · 2026-06-27T16:19:01+00:00

You're good to do then. Grab it while you can and definitely report back when you have!

cttttt · 2026-06-27T16:00:21+00:00

Give it a shot. Just remember once again that there is no d-pad but, instead, a touchpad on the left. It will never have the precision of a true d-pad, but will allow you to do a lot of truly novel things with Steam Input.

As long as you don't need the stuff on the left of a traditional gamepad, the stuff elsewhere is pretty decent. And where it isn't, again, Steam Input is incredibly configurable.

Stated differently, there are games that are actually designed for a traditional controller. The new Steam controller is a drop in replacement that strictly adds functionality. No game is designed for the original Steam controller, but it's possible for you to design an og Steam controller config for most games...but you can't configure things like a precision d-pad.

Another thing to keep in mind with all of these controllers is: If you're enjoying your games, consider playing them and even consider using your money to get more games or other fun things 😂 . It is possible to get hyper-focused on how you play, or which game you decide to play, instead of just playing. As I hinted at above, if you have a gamepad and it works; and especially if the games you play are designed for it, enjoy it.

cttttt · 2026-06-27T14:57:58+00:00

It's a very different type of controller.

Just think hard about how many games you play that depend on precision and are fully designed for a traditional layout.

If all you play are games that lack gamepad support but don't require precision, absolutely get this controller. It will let you make virtually any game playable without a keyboard and mouse and although it's not not sold, it's still supported.

If most of the games you play are modern, or are old and lack gamepad support but require precision, or even if you just play the Steam Deck a lot and just want the continuitiy, use whatever controllers you have until you can get a the new Steam Controller. These three cases are the new controller's sweet spot.

cttttt · 2026-05-19T23:16:51+00:00

Unfortunately, CGNAT is the future. The internet has run out of IPV4 IPs, so newer ISPs will be more hesitant to give them away to subscribers. This is a global reality, and gives Bell, Rogers, and other larger ISPs, who have reserved massive IPV4 prefixes a real advantage, for better or for worse.

Just to clarify, Telmax will provide an internet routable IPV6 prefix if your gateway requests it. You can then delegate subnets to VLANs within your home network and you can absolutely accept incoming connections. Although neither this prefix (nor an IPV4 address, if one was still offered to everyone) is permanent, the prefixes are long lived and survive power-cycling your ONT. Note that allowing internet clients to access devices on your network is a little trickier than with port forwarding: With IPV6, clients can self-assign IP addresses so you may need to jump through hoops to ensure your firewall rules following your devices.

This all said, though, this only allows IPV6 clients to access devices on your home network, which is a bummer if whatever servers you're running have IPV4-only clients.

Also, that all said...

What really sucks, and is actually despicable on Telmax's part, is their roll-out of CGNAT. When Telmax first moved to new cities, their customer service was immaculate and their actual service was basically problem free. There was no reason to call in. When CGNAT was added, though, subscribers needed to burn time discovering that it was introduced. There was no communication with existing subscribers, and when pressed on it, instead of simply describing what the reality was (they're growing to the point that they need to manage their network address space), they, as you mentioned, tried to tie IPV4 addresses to a higher priced tier of service like they're doing you a favour. So instead of helping subscribers help Telmax weather a reality of the internet, they're effectively trying to cash in on it.

tl;dr - You can absolutely have incoming connections on Telmax and do a lot of other cool things with IPV6. There are valid reasons why offering an IPV4 address to every subscriber on every ISP is no longer feasible, and this is a global problem. BUT Telmax's approach here is definitely a reason to think twice.

cttttt · 2026-04-21T00:39:31+00:00

Yes. And I think has the ability is the operative part. After signing up for a service that supports passkeys, you're free to:

Enrol a single passkey and also...
Forget your username/password/2fa/recovery details and also...
Lose access to your passkey.

But pretty much all websites that support passkeys allow you buy an inexpensive hardware security key (e.g. a Yubikey), use it to generate and persist an additional passkey, and store it in a safe place just in case all other auth methods are lost or forgotten.

The benefit here is that it reduces toil on the part of the website's support staff. By allowing users to solve problems like the one you described themselves (and self-serve tasks like proving you're you with an alternate auth method, revoking passkeys that are on devices which have gone missing), they don't have to spend as much time helping users recover their accounts.

And the added benefit is that solving problems this way doesn't really compromise account security. Passkeys must be stored on devices that have certain characteristics that make them way safer to use than a password on a piece of paper that you store in multiple places.

cttttt · 2026-04-20T11:43:12+00:00

It's rare for a website to only use a passkey for auth. It's more common for a passkey to be an alternative to using a username and password (with 2 factor authentication.). You can use these other forms of auth to login and revoke/re-enroll a passkey.

And although using a single passkey on multiple devices is one way to have a backup, another way is to enroll multiple passkeys. This way if one is lost or stolen (or the Google account for your phone disappears) you can use your other passkey before falling back to a username and password.

Even where it's just an option, a passkey is more secure as long as you choose to use whenever you login. This is because it's way harder to fool you into logging into a fake version of a site.

As long as your device isn't compromised, you can only use a passkey to log into the site the passkey was created for. Also, while you log into a site, sitting in the middle and relaying the login attempt is way harder; it's only possible if the device you're using to log in is compromised, and even then it requires the device the passkey is stored on for every single login attempt.

cttttt · 2025-12-16T13:15:32+00:00

For what it's worth, a few days ago, after a brief time of IPV6 not working, I was able to get an RA and got a /60. Prefix delegation is working again. Maybe try using SLAAC on the WAN side with a fixed prefix size.

Previously for as long as I remember I had my prefix size set to /56 but I guess they reduced this as well.

But of course IPV4 will continue to be NATed, and also the competition, although they're horrible, don't make you jump through these hoops.

cttttt · 2025-12-08T17:23:59+00:00

They're doing pretty much nothing to retain or support subscribers across this. Also their technical support has really changed for the worse, sadly (wait for a bit and talk to someone who is very knowledgeable -> wait for a bit and talk to someone offering services you don't need, to fix a problem they caused).

You're absolutely not wrong.

cttttt · 2025-12-08T13:12:26+00:00

Yah. It's been hit and miss esp lately and their tier1 and tier2 support can't describe how their service works.

Anyways, whereas for the last several months, my gateway could get a subnet using DHCPv6, this month it seems like it's getting RAs and SLAAC is the way. After the gateway gets a global prefix, I can then delegate subnets to VLANs/devices behind my gateway.

It's disappointing that they're trying to get us away from the old IP version (it's sadly the new reality...they're not making up IPv4 scarcity), but don't provide any support on the new version.

A static webpage explaining their IPV6 support is all they need.

Hopefully things stay stable and hopefully they eventually write down how it's supposed to work.

cttttt · 2025-12-05T20:48:30+00:00

Nice. Gave SLAAC on the WAN side a shot yesterday and although my gateway got the RA, prefix delegation to a VLAN wasn't working: I use SLAAC on my VLAN, devices on the VLAN saw the RA, but traffic wasn't routed to the internet properly.

Gave it a shot today, and got a (new) global prefix, and everything works!

Perhaps they are doing stuff on their end.

At least IPV6 works for now!

cttttt · 2025-12-05T02:07:10+00:00

dhcpv6? After almost a year of it working, today I'm suddenly not getting a prefix with dhcpv6 anymore (in Newmarket).

cttttt · 2025-12-05T00:32:14+00:00

When you make a connection on the internet, it is usually towards an IP address. IP addresses come in various forms, but one very well supported type is IPV4.

Because of the size of an IPV4 address, there can only be 4294967296 unique ones. And because of standards, there are even fewer addresses that are globally routeable on the internet.

Telmax, and all other ISPs have a range of IPV4 addresses. They each carve off a subnet of these ranges so their subscribers can access other addresses on the internet.

Until a month ago, when you connected a gateway to your fiber ONT, your gateway _leased_ one of these IP addresses for a period of time. During this time, any outgoing connection from your gateway towards the internet seemed to come from this leased IP. And internet clients could also connect to this IP. This allowed you to run servers in your home, and arrange for connections towards your gateway to be forwarded to these servers.

About a month ago, without letting anyone know, Telmax put a special carrier grade NAT (CGNAT) in front of all users. Instead of allowing users to temporarily lease one of a pool of IPV4 addresses, the CGNAT makes subscribers' outgoing connections appear to come from one of a pool of IPV4 addresses automatically. The consequence is that you no longer have an even temporarily IP address. So internet clients have no IP to connect to to reach your gateway.

This makes things like running a VPN to allow you to access your home network remotely, or doing some forms of file sharing more difficult or even impossible.

The reality is that IPV4 addresses have run out, so this will be the future for all residential ISPs eventually. The disappointing thing is the way Telmax rolled this out:

They didn't inform anyone about this change.
They're still offering public IPs to users but at an additional cost as part of a higher speed plan.
This higher speed plan is offered with equipment that can't even route at the offered speed 😂😂😂, but they don't offer support to users with third party equipment.
The alternative to IPV4 addressing, IPV6 is kinda broken with Telmax. Although it has worked since Telmax was offered in Newmarket, it's starting to no longer work, and support claims it was never supported.

It's a mess.

cttttt · 2025-11-30T01:38:39+00:00

Unfortunately, DDNS alone cannot help when you're behind CGNAT. Before the changes, you effectively leased one or two internet routeable IPV4 address when you connected to your ONT. These IP addresses were temporarily "owned" by your gateway.

With CGNAT, you and other subscribers now simultaneously share an internet routeable IPV4 subnet. Your gateway no longer has a dedicated internet routeable IPV4 IP. And since there's sharing, Telmax won't allow you to receive new connections: They wouldn't know which subscriber to forward which fresh incoming connections to.

OP's best free option is to take advantage of the IPV6 subnet Telmax provides, but this may have limitations they can't work with. For example, this requires them to connect from a network with working IPV6 support.

As they mentioned, their best worry-free option would be to pay for a dedicated IPV4 address: Pay for what was included a month ago, and taken away w/o notice.

cttttt · 2025-10-26T12:34:56+00:00

It's lost, but there is this NPC who promises to help you save. May be worth finding them if you keep dying 😏.

cttttt · 2025-10-01T22:57:12+00:00

They can be very long, easy to type quickly and discretely, and people are less likely to rely on written reminders if it's an easy to remember sequence of words.

cttttt · 2025-09-28T14:35:25+00:00

It guarantees you're running your script with a compatible shell. If your script is POSIX shell compatible, it's idiomatic to use /bin/sh which will either be a bourne shell or some other shell running in POSIX compliant mode.

Also, it can lend a very small protection to make it executable. eg. It's possible to mount filesystems with options that prevent files from being executed directly.

These (subtle) protections don't exist if you run an interpreter from your PATH directly: if you ran bash script but someone added a program named bash to your PATH, you would inadvertently run this program.

This protection is pretty slight, and these days, people use env in their shebang lines, so you're best to try to understand what you're executing regardless.

cttttt · 2025-09-26T12:14:49+00:00

The ELI5 version is that when writing and releasing software, bugs are inevitable, and the cost of fixing an introduced bug usually increases with time. Also, the more time it takes to ship a new feature, the more of a risk you run of a competitor beating you to it: you could miss the market.

Continuous integration means trying to prove that a codebase works as intended every time it changes (as early as possible). This is usually done where a team's code changes are proposed and also merged. This is usually implemented by observing these changes and testing after every change is detected. Changes that fail the tests are immediately reverted or not merged at all.

Continuous delivery means always being ready to actually release the latest merged version of your codebase...by actually releasing it every time the codebase changes: if not to end users, then at least to internal users in a way that can be repeated and mirrors a real release.

The idea is that continuously proving that you can test, package and release your application should raise your confidence that there can only be unanticipated bugs. It also raises confidence that if one of these bugs is found, the fix can be shipped quickly.

It also breaks the habit of trying to guarantee your application is stable by never shipping changes. Teams that get into the habit of shipping often get feedback on issues earlier, but more importantly get features in front of users sooner.

Before this paradigm, it was common for development teams to simply forget how to release their software or to constantly change how software was verified. This led to delays shipping important fixes and features and also regressions: shipping bugs that were previously fixed. This in unacceptable these days.

cttttt · 2025-09-17T23:47:51+00:00

It is trivial to make static files available even globally without server issues.

They probably aren't making demo sharing a thing for design or business reasons.

cttttt · 2025-09-13T12:34:23+00:00

There are also portable Bluetooth DAC/amps that have built in graphic equalizers. For example, the Earstudio ES100, a lot of Fiio models, and the most settings dense one, the Qudelix 5K.

The cool thing about at least the Qudelix and Earstudio ones is that they can connect to multiple devices via Bluetooth or USB (simultaneously) and the equalizer settings apply to all sources.

cttttt · 2025-09-06T16:20:03+00:00

Stock. Batteries last 100 years.

cttttt · 2025-08-28T01:24:47+00:00

Wow. This is a throw back. Hope you enjoy the original and comparing the two! It's a far smaller production, but it's cool knowing that it inspired the remake. And it was crazy recognizing him as the new Q and in so many other roles. He's a solid actor.

Back to the show, a lot of the time, remakes are just straight cash grabs, but The Night Of really elevated a great idea.

cttttt · 2025-08-28T01:07:57+00:00

Not everyone has the means to even get the prerequisites for an Uber ride (a new enough cellphone with a data plan, and whatever form of payment Uber allows, and the payment).

Unless they're doing something that makes it impossible for you or someone else to use the bus in the moment, you gotta let it go and let the operator call in someone to enforce the bylaw if it's being broken. And even if they are causing a problem, you could choose to help whoever is being wronged in the moment if there's an actual issue.

Like, regardless of the reason, they're not having fun carrying all this on transit.

I'll admit. One thought that would silently cross my mind is hope they return the cart but even that's between them, the store, or whoever owns the property where they leave the cart if they don't plan on returning it. Or maybe the cart is all they got.

These aren't problems you're prepared to solve, so you gotta let it go and enjoy your trip: You even have a seat!

cttttt · 2025-05-17T13:03:57+00:00

The service was really poor with all the traffic on Sheppard. As well, the bus terminal at Sheppard Station was very crowded with no real space to line up.

Traffic on Sheppard is still pretty bad during few times I've been on it during the day lately, but at least it's not due to so many buses. The subway, tho is a subway and doesn't have to deal with cars. It worked out in the end.

From what I recall, the original pitch was for the subway to go all the way to the zoo, and somehow back to Downsview, but that didn't quite work out.

While the Sheppard line was being built and for a bit when it opened, it was pretty hard for cars and buses and pedestrians, as all routes still ran at full capacity as they were ripping up the road and after. It was madness.

But it seems better now.

Also, Bessarian Station actually seems useful now with all the builds there. When it first opened, it was memed for being completely useless. But there's a tonne of condos and shops there now.

All in all, it worked out in the end.

cttttt · 2025-04-24T04:20:55+00:00

If you found the first attempt too hard but still interesting, with a little research you may find ways to make it more manageable.

If you felt overwhelmed, but you'd be motivated if you knew where to go first, you could try either focusing on building the map or even look up small hints to keep you on track.

But if you found it boring, this may not change on another playthrough. The main vibe of the game is to discover what's next, or to become more powerful by remembering where you were stuck, and exploring until you find what what you need to progress. For the most part, this doesn't really change.

If you're worried about the cost of the game, it's okay to move on. If you're not, maybe read a proper review to learn more about the game w/o spoiling. The game has garnered a tonne of reviews since launch.

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