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orangeboats • last Thursday at 5:51 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

It still is. A lot of IoT and "smart" devices are still dreadfully slow in updating their software.


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mahboi • last Thursday at 6:37 PM

Iot isn't what's holding ipv6 back. There are tons of websites and even cloud platforms with totally ipv6-capable hardware and OSes, but the services are v4-only or strongly v4-preferred.

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preisschild • yesterday at 8:48 AM

Tbf there are always bad implementations. Good "smart" devices nowadays should be based on the Matter standard, which natively uses IPv6 addressing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_(standard)