For me it's because I'm hungry AF and just don't want to wait for them to fix it. Not being that picky helps.
Unforeseen
Ahh OK my bad. I've only worked with NTP for a long time and wasn't aware of the earlier stuff.
Latency is accounted for in the sync process
Dead Kennedy's
I owned this tape 😁
Same for the mouse. My ratio is ridiculous as I just leave everything seeding. I also use a VPN that allows port forwarding even though its not a big deal in my country I still do it anyway.
It's actually the number of brain cells lost every time someone reads stupid shit like this on the internet
He chose... Poorly
If you've ever been to a casino in the last 15 years you are already in at least one
Thanks for the post, super appreciate the posting of other communties. I think this is a great way to grow Lemmy and create discoverability for niche communities, I'll keep that in mind myself on future opportunities.
Wireshark won't show you anything if it's encrypted, other then a communication taking place. There's nothing stopping them from batching or otherwise obfuscating things through all kinds of means.
For Windows it absolutely is in order of listing however. Typical behaviour is no reply after a second against the primary DNS results in it moving down the list.
Redundancy aside, this is more important when you span multiple datacenters and always want lookups going to the completely local or most local DC available.
TIL about the Linux/BSD not having preference though. Good to know.