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"You should probably just throw it away" in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

[–] jittery_shibe 13 points 1 day ago

Well at least the second hand laptop market will be flooded by the companies deciding to upgrade to newer laptops for Win11, so a small upside.

Here it comes... 👀 in c/privacy@lemmy.ml

[–] jittery_shibe 11 points 2 weeks ago

If only there was an AI that monitors everything going on on the device which they could force onto everyone

Strands #242, 31.10.2024🎃 in c/dailygames@lemmy.zip

I have been out of the loop for over a decade, where do I begin? in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] jittery_shibe 3 points 5 months ago

Thank you! I did some reading and that's also how I understand it: at least one peer has to have port forwarding enabled / listen on a port for two peers to connect. Also I found out about "Hole punching" or "NAT punching" where a middleman server is used to open up ports on two peers that do not have ports forwarded yet to allow them to talk to each other directly. This is also used in BitTorrent. And also explains why it works without explicit port forwarding enabled.

I have been out of the loop for over a decade, where do I begin? in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] jittery_shibe 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Why is port forwarding important? I have my torrent server running, downloading and uploading perfectly fine. Is port forwarding needed for like something else besides general down/uploading?