(if the color scheme is hard to read, hit reload. You'll understand after reading the piece)

(What I do may be "wrong" in some cosmic technological sense, but it's still "the only thing supported by the software vendor" and also "isn't actually broken" in the sense of "works just fine". Unlike wayland, which "doesn't work just fine")

When I talked to them four years ago, they agreed we were good to use it for free, no problem.

The dollar figure they're asking for would make it the single most expensive software product we would be licensing in our enterprise, by a lot. The deadline is absurdly soon for such a big deal. And they opened discussion in an incredibly hostile manner and have made no attempt to work with us.

So, I'm helping lead the effort to completely purge them from our ecosystem. On the one hand, I'm sad because their stuff is pretty good. On the other hand, their behavior is bad and the product isn't better by the amount they're asking for.

Good riddance.

The thing that I find has the biggest useful-to-popularly-known ratio is "tee".

(https://github.com/chunky/sqlraytracer was the one I created. Slightly obtuse but I really enjoyed writing it)

The job market is hell to apply in. Job seekers are incentivised to come up with strategies and techniques to make mass application simpler, and sure enough, they have. Go team humanity.

RAND used to cut copies of the punch card deck for anyone who asked, but I'm sadly unable to find anyone who's still got a copy.

So I'm looking to just come meet people in person who know the material and can provide advice. Do such groups exist? Especially in Los Angeles?

This isn't going to be a "gave it a tug, didn't open, give up and move on" situation.

Release notes history is here: https://www.ui.com/download/software/usg-pro-4

The wireguard of which you speak is only available on their "next gen" gateways, ie, not the full set of gateways currently "supported": https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/12594825307927-UniFi-G...

It's now been three years since at least some of the forum threads started expressing concern: https://community.ui.com/questions/L2TP-unsecure-update-to-I...

From my perspective, they have failed catastrophically to do what I perceive as the pivotally important parts of their job, without which the rest of it is pointless. So, while you say "Just stop", I say "Why the hell should this company be trusted with anything network-related, if they can't do bare-minimum-required security stuff?"

Their security posture is trash, which is unfortunate for a company that plays a central role in security

There's also the trust issue; the VPN problem has been known for years. If they won't maintain a key security component of their key security device, why would I trust them with anything?

... And I haven't upgraded anything since. Their new products are totally undirected, they aren't making items that are obvious and needed. Their software is falling behind and they just don't care.

Case in point: the usg pro 4 is years old but they havent released an updated affordable just-the-border device. Their new stuff like the dream machine, and now this, just isn't the right thing to replace what was there before. The VPN on there doesn't work with recent Android or iPhone, and they just don't care.

Adding even the most basic firewall rules is hard. The single pane of glass got a major interface overhaul, and they added a huge amount of hard-to-turn-off phone-home crap at the same time. Enshittification reigns supreme.

And don't forget other runty hardware like the poe ceiling lights and doorbell.

The company just needs to buckle down, make good stuff, fire the product astronauts, fix obvious major problems before adding pointless new features.

... Suffice to say, my next hardware refresh almost certainly won't be from this company.

At least you have to pay now. Historically OPM just gave it away for free. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Manageme...

You remind me I need to finish my hunt the wumpus implementation. (sqlite has an easy way to get user input, mid query...)

As you say, a few parts are missing (particular vacuum tubes). Unfortunately, every time I start implementing stuff in kicad, that's where I get overwhelmed... And to someone who's not a hardware guy, I'm completely stymied. Can you suggest what I should do?