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PSA: Lego turned evil, unfortunately. There are much better alternatives on the market these days.
> Lego turned evil Could you elaborate?
> In Kevin’s own words on kevinloch.com: “I am also an amateur physicist, programmer, photographer, independent film producer (at WTF Productions) and AFOL (Adult Fan of Lego).” Kevin was also passionate about any and all things space related: the sky, the stars, and beyond; trying to find the meaning in how things work, why they work, and what would make them work better. His latest passion after moving back to Rest…
PSA: Lego turned evil, unfortunately. There are much better alternatives on the market these days.
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You can also use dig to get your external ipv4. That prevents reliance on smaller sites Don’t have the command on hand but easily searchable
How so? Getting your public/external IP does not seem possible behind a NAT without an external service.
dig +short -4 myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com
Oh no, this has been my go-to site for connectivity tests (as example.com seems to be cached fairly aggressively by my browsers and that has misled me in the past). Ad-free, minimal, does exactly what it needs to and nothing more. Rest in peace! Edit: All these (great and much appreciated!) responses of alternatives are making me wonder if this should in fact be a standardized service that could then be offered as a…
ifconfig.me is a similar service which I often use. It has a nice feature that if you do "curl ifconfig.me", you'll get only a string with the ip address, no markup.
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How so? Getting your public/external IP does not seem possible behind a NAT without an external service.
No idea. All I can tell you is that it works and if I need to hard code a IP check like this then I’d rather rely on a big player like Google or cloudflare ns than someone’s project site
> In Kevin’s own words on kevinloch.com: “I am also an amateur physicist, programmer, photographer, independent film producer (at WTF Productions) and AFOL (Adult Fan of Lego).” Kevin was also passionate about any and all things space related: the sky, the stars, and beyond; trying to find the meaning in how things work, why they work, and what would make them work better. His latest passion after moving back to Rest…
PSA: Lego turned evil, unfortunately. There are much better alternatives on the market these days.
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PSA: Lego turned evil, unfortunately. There are much better alternatives on the market these days.
What would you recommend instead?
Lidl (if you live in a country where they are active), BlueBricks, or Cobi. But there are half a dozen others which are excellent.
Used Lego is fine, though.
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PSA: Lego turned evil, unfortunately. There are much better alternatives on the market these days.
> Lego turned evil Could you elaborate?
McKinsey types have taken over.
Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20884542 The "Held der Steine" logo lawsuit story is what has made me aware of their practices.
I never knew of him from ip4.me, but I definitely visited his Lego site Brickshelf ( https://brickshelf.com/ ). Thanks Kevin.
Massive Aircraft Carrier made of Lego, 200,000 bricks, 350LB - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=415448 - Dec 2008 (3 comments)