It’s even simpler than that: they leased the office space and have to continue to pay that lease or else pay an early termination fee. This is basically the sunk cost fallacy. But you are right that sometimes additionally they get tax breaks for certain office space, for instance the San Francisco mid-market tax break (AKA the Twitter tax break)

Oh yeah, exactly. USG and aps and stuff do not. The dream router does, so I would caution against it.

Also, they may force it in the future. Their past behavior does indicate that direction.

Ubiquiti website says that dream router must run unifi.

https://store.ui.com/us/en/collections/unifi-dream-router/products/udr

*Consists of UniFi Network plus two of Protect, Access, Talk, or Connect.

What router do you have? If it’s a dream router, how did you join it to your unifi running in docker on another host?

I have been using ubiquiti for years, and I would strongly caution against using them. They are forcing some devices to sign on to ubiquity cloud and synchronize with their cloud services, and are forcing those sign ins to use MFA. I really miss the ubiquity from 2020, where it was all local. Next time I upgrade my gear, I will probably not buy an ubiquiti router/gateway.

Also the upgrade process from Usg to dream router was awful. Also they don’t let you run unifi in docker with a dream router, you are forced to run it on-device.

I don’t either, but then I saw snapd mount points showing up. 🙄

Were you able to run headless without installing snapd? I tried and tried, but there was some shared library dependency that always led to me having snapd installed, and after fighting with it repeatedly I found it easier to switch to Debian.

It’s really disappointing that snapd has even infected headless installs. I loved Ubuntu on headless, and I still use it as a docker base image.

My go to for home servers for like 20 years has been used dell optiplexes. They are quite reliable, easy to find, pretty cheap, come in a few different standard physical sizes, and last a long time. The one thing they could do better at is energy efficiency. I spent a total of US $450 on the last two that I bought. I added an LSI HBA to one and it runs 4 HDDs in raidz1.

Have you run lsof? See also: https://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html

You are thinking of errata, and most technical books do have it.

What if we had a modern spin on it called new wop?

“Condoms and snacks”? I think you’re thinking of the teen pregnancy center.

We should bring all of that back. Well, maybe not the doo-wop.

I see you shiver with antici … https://youtu.be/wlwnbcxBuzI

Simple fix: change the time signature. Boom.

Secret User-Agents

Fuck that noise. What on earth were we expecting from an advertising agency?

I don’t. People use non-proprietary tools to repair proprietary things all the time. Screwdrivers and hammers and soldering irons all are open tools that are used to build and maintain proprietary physical objects. I can’t see any irony in it because I can’t see it any other way. Imagine that GM built cars using only tools that were hidden behind a trade secret, and mechanics and end users were forced to use those same tools. Seems far fetched, doesn’t it? It does to me at any rate.

I guess if you think it’s ironic then you do you. I’ve been using OSS software to make proprietary OSes not suck for over 2 decades, and that’s exactly one of the things I expect it to do.

Irony (noun)

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3: Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs.

How is that ironic? It seems like exactly what I would expect: open source software prioritizing human wellbeing instead of corporate profits.