Ubiquiti?

You can’t give me that garbage. I despise it, after setting up a single access point (plus also watching friends deal with it at client sites).

Besides the discovery issues and slow performance when trying to manage it, I had a random open network on it after setup. This network didn’t appear anywhere in the control panel. I could turn off the access point and the network disappeared.

It didn’t show up in the guest network config (which was turned off anyway). It had the same name as the WPA-protected network, it was just open - no security at all.

I had to reset the access point to get rid of this weird random open network.

What kind of garbage product does that?

Now let’s look at cloud keys. One has a hard drive in it. Just one drive, 3.5", which besides storing data also stores the OS. What? Why is the OS not on some firmware or at least an M2, since the drive is really for storing surveillance data (did I mention it’s a single drive?), what a joke. Why would I bother with such an expensive device that has zero fault tolerance, when I could simply buy a cheaper real machine, run multiple drives, and host the software there?

I lack the vocabulary to describe how bad Unifi is.

Are you me? The only difference is I just switched to a Pixel 5. My 2006 car should run for many more years, 10 at least.

Just this month I finally moved off my 2017 flagship… Only because my cell provider stopped supporting it (for no fucking reason).

I was running the latest version of Lineage too. Thing was great. It did need a battery (which I may still replace for about $7).

And like you said, sometimes you need to replace a phone.

Maybe it was lost, or destroyed.

Searx.space

Can you just flip it over and leave it upside down? Cause I certainly would.

Look at it this way, $30 per machine is a helluva lot cheaper than mitigating whatever 11 will break.

Not to say don’t update, but Enterprise works on this stuff in advance, testing their systems with the newest versions as their Betas are released, to develop their mitigation strategies (including staged deployments).

Even there, $30 is cheap insurance if they need a little extra time to address issues.

For the home user, fuck that. Just ensure your security model includes layers, e.g. Don’t run as admin, isolate systems that are at risk, etc.

Hell, at home I run different VLANS for my own stuff (cause I do risky things), one for TV (because those things are terrible about security), another one for everyone else, and a guest network.

The contacts were surprisingly robust. Mine just died, sadly.

New ones are crappy knockoffs, but they’re cheap enough.

LaCie IAmAKey. No longer made. Current ones are made from aluminum and bend easily. Originals were stainless and rigid.

My 2006 one just died, and I’m so frustrated with the new ones. Fortunately they’re pretty cheap, so who cares.

Here here!

Best mouse I’ve ever had. Lasted 10+ years. Just can’t justify $100 for a new one

It still exists! (Or did about a year ago).

When I got my first Android (2009 ish), I searched high and low for a way to run Hamachi on it. There have been solutions, but always clumsy and difficult to implement.

I miss Hamachi, it was so simple to use.

Tailscale is wireguard (it uses the wireguard protocols, even says so on the box), just with a centralized resolver to make things easier to setup and manage.

I’m not sure what you’re saying with the rest of your comment, as Tailscale is a mesh network, not a VPN as most people think of it.

It encrypts your traffic, but only into the network of which your device is a member. You can’t even see any devices, or networking, outside the Tailscale network, unless a device is configured as a Subnet router. Then you can see devices in the network which the Subnet Router links together.

For example, you have 3 machines, a laptop on mobile data, and 2 desktops on your home LAN. One desktop and the laptop have Tailscale, they can communicate over Tailscale to each other, but the laptop cannot connect to the second desktop because it’s on a different network, since there’s no routing between Tailscale and your home LAN.

You then configure Subnet Routing on the desktop that has Tailscale, now your laptop can connect o any device on the home LAN, so long as the desktop is running and Tailscale is up.

Think of mesh networks as Virtual LANs in software, configurable on each device (mostly, sort of). Twenty years ago Hamachi was the go-to for this, it was brilliant, and much easier to use than today’s mesh networks, just far less capable/manageable/configurable.

I’d consider 5% to be trivial, for what it does.

My battery consumption really depends on how much traffic I send over it.

I was just thinking about this a little earlier.

People simply can’t be bothered to learn how systems work (any kind, technical, financial, political), then bitch when it doesn’t work the way they want or think it should.

I’m as guilty as anyone (especially finance). At least I try to not bitch about it too much, and work at keeping away from more complex stuff that I just don’t understand well enough.

Thanks for the summary, it adds great clarity to seeing how it could happen

Are you going to pay for retraining 30,000 employees?

Or to make all your software work on Linux?

Autocad?

It definitely gets better once it’s all caught up.

But it’s still much harder on battery than ST when folders have changes.

It’s kind of not Foldersync’s fault, it’s really because of the protocols - it’s all connection-based, and FS has to compare each file at sync time.

Syncthing keeps an index so it knows what files have changed. Very different tools with different use-cases and approaches.

I used FS for years until I found ST, and had to do a lot more tweaking to get sync to work the way I wanted with FS. FS doesn’t have sync conditions like ST, so I had to use Macrodroid to trigger it when on WiFi, for example.

FS can be a solution, it’s just a lot more work for anything beyond basics.

It’s stupid easy to setup, even has a built-in photo backup job.

I use Syncthing-Fork because it moves all the sync conditions into each job.

So my photos sync regardless of charging state or network (I’m willing to pay for the data to ensure photos are instantly synced). While other things only sync while on WiFi and charging (e.g. Neobackup).

Only one I can think of is Resilio, but it’s hard on RAM and battery for large folders.

That takes a lot more effort.

With Syncthing, I don’t have to setup a server, poke holes in my firewall/expose ports, etc.

Plus Foldersync is way harder on battery, I’ve experimented a lot.

And I’ve used Foldersync since at least 2010 - it’s great, really has it’s uses.