This is an opinion on the WiFi access points.

I took the unifi pill in 2018 on the advice of my devops coworkers that ubiquiti is set-and-forget. I also was sold on the unifi network controller I deployed and used until last month being easy to use and local only.

The single pane of glass to control and update the access points is nice. Wifi works OK. There are, however, several downsides:

• channel and power management are not automatic and tweaking WiFi settings with unifi is not intuitive.
• similar to your nas experience unifi advanced metrics are locked behind paying for other unifi equipment or an official controller.
• network appliance is built on mongodb and its performance is pretty abysmal (Up to 2.5GB memory to run it)
• the network appliance is now discontinued and self-hosting the network appliance can no longer happen software-only, you have to use their “server os”, which can’t be run in a container.

After the unifi Debian repo stopped updating properly, I decided to install openwrt on my APs.

Not only did it work well, but performance is now much better with openwrt.

I’m personally stepping away from brands that have their own ecosystems from now on, if I can help it. The enshitification is just too tempting for them, it seems, and it it’s always at our expense.

Fair enough.

I see your posts and comments regularly in self-hosted, keep it up. Staying engaged is learning.

As a fellow tinhat wearer, I applaud your reluctance to trust what they tell you.

However, there isn’t much you can do about your VPN provider setting up multiple exit routes, or maybe they’re doing something really fancy like NAT filtering DNS requests so big players like Netflix have a harder time catching on to ppl geo-hopping.

But the outcome is the same: you have no control over this behaviour.

DNS leak tests only understand your exit IP. If your VPN provider allows round Robin load balancing, this may happen. This is a drawback of VPN exits out of your control, that you can’t know how their exits are handled.

Why you are so concerned about DNS leaks beyond one test is another matter only you can solve. Unless you are changing your dnssec config daily, this should be checked once.

1. Have the router to block portscanners

What do you mean by this? Closing unused ports?

It doesn’t really matter, the current limitations are not so much data density at rest, but getting the data in and out at a useful speed. We breached the capacity barrier long ago with disk arrays.

SATA will no longer be improved, we now need u.2 designs for data transport that are designed for storage. This exists, but needs to filter down through industrial application to get to us plebs.

I use a filesharing platform called nicotine+and then curate my music manually.

Nicotine isn’t just for music, but it is really good for finding weird and non-mainstream music, which is what blocks me from.using lidarr.

I have lots of single songs rather than albums

Lidarr is not for you, then. Lidarr has a very particular workflow, and playlists like yours aren’t it.

There is an ongoing issue with meshtastic users where they keep fighting about mqtt and maps of nodes. meshmap.net apparently only shows about 20% of mqtt-reporting nodes.

I will look into this, thank you!

but what actually happens is that the amount of memory needed to run programs exceeds the amount of physical RAM, but swap is still available, so the OOM killer doesn’t give a shit.

Stop giving technical advice, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Sounds like a great workflow!

Unfortunately, I just can’t get syncthing to run in the background of my phone without chewing up the battery.

it I didn’t make me feel compelled to go harm some Windows users or anything like that, but your mileage may vary

I’m happy to let the conversation take its course, but I take exception to this. You damn well know that’s not what I meant.

Except electric cars are hell expensive and linux is free.

That was literally my point. Some people bought electric cars because the could, not because they wanted to effect any social change.

But other FOSS software (like the ActivityPub protocol) can for sure make a very sizeable dent in the amount of doomscrolling in one’s life.

Is activity pub only used on Linux desktop apps? Can’t a Mac or windows user participate in mastodon? Fediverse use and Linux are separate issues.

This false equivalence between Linux itself and the path of our collective salvation from social media, corporate manipulation, etc, etc is a big problem for Linux, because Linux is just a tool.

btrfs is widely praised… and also a product of Facebook. Google has poured Fons of money into FOSS development. Should we shun these tools?

Especially now, with a sizable influx of users to Linux, articles like the one Op posted create a completely false us v them narrative that just isn’t there.

You want to fight the evil social media? Drop them.

Look, I appreciate your enthusiasm, but you are treading into virtue signalling territory and your article has the superior tone of those who bought electric cars in the late 2010s to lord it over the rest of us.

Using Linux is not going to stop your doom-scrolling, nor is using Linux by itself telling the big corpos anything at all. Stop conflating using Linux with “sticking it to Facebook”.

Linux is a tool, and it is a tool that allows freedom of its use. That’s it.

You unfortunately cannot solve this yourself, this is where 800lb gorillas like akamai outclass self-hosted.

Netflix alone has many thousands of isps participating in Open Connect alone, these providing CDN peering points all over the world and making Netflix only a few hops away for more end users.

This isn’t an option for op, they’re collaborating with others for work, so they can’t change the involvement of MS.

You didn’t really include any details about your current VPN setups, your subnets, your routing rules, etc for anyone to give you a useful answer.

They likely need to track changes, which look and act weird when using LO on ms docs.

1. A tool used by a state employer only wouldn’t need e2ee, since they hold all the servers.
2. The French government has long been trying to make encryption in use by its citizens inspectable by them (the French government)