There’s only 4 years between FF7 and Halo

Hmm

I’d maybe try systematically turning any other devices off you think could potentially have the grunt to run windows server in a container or VM.

Do you have a Mac/Linux machine handy? If you run arp -a in one terminal and ping the unusual IP in another, that should give you a corresponding MAC address for the device. You can then look up the MAC address and see if it gives you any more info about the device running it—it might not but you never know. You can use something like https://dnschecker.org/mac-lookup.php

I guess next you could look at taking that MAC and blocking it in your router control panel and see if anything starts complaining

Yeah IIRC you’re right, though I remember you could contact apple and reset it.

It was called FairPlay DRM and they only really got rid of it around a decade after iTunes launched. I’m not 100% but I think I had to pay to upgrade my already paid-for library to DRM free too

Have you recently installed visual studio or are doing any .NET development? It could possibly be a containerised version of IIS

If you completely turn off your windows device and try to access the IP from another device does it still resolve?

As everyone else has said this is the out of the box default page that comes with Microsoft IIS web server on windows server.

Though I feel like you’d know if you had a copy of windows server running on your network somewhere—is the IP in your usual network subnet?

Glassholes v2

…so you hate-watch creators you don’t enjoy on alternative YouTube front ends explicitly in order to not give them ad revenue Vs just not watching them?

Aren’t you only wasting your own time?

Oh I didn’t actually realise that, I thought they’d just gone full Adobe with office 365

Gotta add to your message under the video, partly because I like this creator and other small creators like him:

I completely understand someone not wanting to get blasted by ads and tracking from YouTube—however if you’re using one of these YouTube front ends, please consider sponsoring the creators you’re watching on patreon or something if you’re able to. If everyone dodged the ads and didn’t also sponsor the creator in some way, they’re eventually just gonna stop being able to make content because the necessary income to justify the work is simply not going to be there.

I hate ads as much as the next guy, but it’s important to remember it’s a big part of how these people can afford to make the videos we enjoy. So particularly with smaller creators, happily dodge the ads, but make sure they’re still getting something for their work.

Time for another court to finally set the precedent the EULAs and Terms & Conditions are bullshit because it’s expected that no one will read them, and therefore no one has actually agreed to anything

If this actually rings true, there’s something pretty wrong in your team.

Stand up should be a quick and uncontroversial meeting talking about what you’ve done, what you’ll do and anything you need help with, plus maybe a couple of minutes of small talk before you start.

And so the bloodline of windows write is extinguished

This is kinda sad that if you want to do even basic word processing with Microsoft software, your only option now is an ongoing subscription to do so.

Wow your electricity prices are insanely cheap to me! I knew it was a bit more expensive here, but not by over 3x or even 30x based on your September estimate! We also have standing charges that amount to something like £250 a year even if you use no electricity whatsoever. My electricity & gas bill is over double yours for two people in a 2 bed house and we basically never use the heating. I think the economy of it makes sense with my situation but it definitely doesn’t for you

If you don’t mind me asking, where is it you live? Does your country have a lot of oil reserves or something?

I think your calculations are way off based on what I’ve just checked.

Firstly the average UK house (which is on average a fair bit smaller than American houses, for example), which typically doesn’t use AC and electric heating/cooking uses 2,700kWh (and around 10,000kWh of gas). I imagine that most other countries that don’t typically use gas and have AC, have a significantly higher average.

Secondly I’m seeing several sources saying <$0.20/kWh is what pumped hydro battery storage costs, which is roughly 2/3 of the price of grid electricity in my country.

Finally, we spend billions on power plants—why not power storage too? It’s necessary infrastructure spending whichever way you go about it.

To be honest, at grid scale, I don’t see why the answer to this today isn’t that the government/energy companies just build a shit load of gravity batteries and use the basically free power times to build grid supply for when the sun’s gone down.

Japanese courts have a 99% conviction rate or something. Saying you’ve not lost in a Japanese court is like saying 99% of the time you’ve been to the airport, you got on a plane.

That’s the case for most people

You’re correct, there’s no way to do this without it being a driver feature, but it seems like if they’re not adding it to the control panel, they’re using it as a carrot to get people to use the app

I read this like officer crabtree from Allo Allo

This is getting to the point where it goes to court and rightfully, Nintendo should get slapped and a new bleem-like precedent is set.