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Overview Situation An internet connection which uses native IPv6 and supports IPv4 through Dual-Stack Lite. The internet provider assigns the Fritz!Box an IPv6 prefix (/59). A server running Debian 12 should be publicly reachable to provide some services. Due to the Dual-Stack Lite, IPv6 is the only way to publicly expose the server. In the Fritz!Box a corresponding fort forwarding is configured. Problem There’s no control over the assigned IPv6 prefix and it might change whenever the internet connection gets reconnected. As the server has a static local IPv4 address, the second part of the IPv6 address should also be static. ...

The rollout of Debian 12.3 has been paused due to a data corruption issue in the 6.1.64-1 kernel when using the ext4 filesystem: https://www.debian.org/News/2023/2023120902 For amd64, the affected package is linux-image-6.1.0-14-amd64 as it ships kernel 6.1.64-1. It can be prevented from being installed, by setting the Pin-Priority for this version to -1: $ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/2023-12-10-kernel-ext4-bug # https://www.debian.org/News/2023/2023120902 Package: linux-image-amd64 Pin: version 6.1.64-1 Pin-Priority: -1 Package: linux-image-rt-amd64 Pin: version 6.1.64-1 Pin-Priority: -1 This can be verified using apt-cache policy: ...

I recently ordered a StarBook Mk VIr2 from Star Labs : StarBok Mk VIr2 The StarBok Mk VIr2 The StarBok Mk VIr2 has the following specs: 64 GB DDR4 RAM @ 3200 MHz (2×32 GB) i7-1360P @ 2.20 GHz 2 TB Gen4 PCIe SSD 14" display Ubuntu LTS 22.04.02 coreboot (instead of AMI firmware) US keyboard layout In comparison, my daily driver for many years has been a Lenovo ThinkPad T470s with the following specs: ...