I’ve done something similar - repurposing old 90’s boomboxes with hifiberry - it works relatively well (but does require some tinkering.

Listen, AI is a godsend for some people.

Take a totally fictional person who works in my IT department, Joe Foyle. He always tries talking to things that he flat out doesn’t understand, just oozing that “pay attention to me” and “I talk for the sake of me taking” vibe. For fucking years Joey boy here has been trying too hard to get noticed, often to the detriment of his own goals, and has refused to take constrictive criticism/gentle guidance to dial that shit back.

He simultaneously is upset that others are smarter than him while at the same time refusing to better himself with training, mentorship, and/or reading.

Joe fucking loves AI.

Now he can be the one (instead of the other principal engineers) talking about things that interest the C-suite. Now when Joe talks, people have to listen because AI is the future… holy shit, did Joe just become a goddamned futurist?

AI has to work because otherwise Mr. Foyle will be proven (again) to be full of shit. And so he pushes harder and harder the narrative that AI is the future and can do no wrongs.

So in answer to your email question, OP - yeah, the biggest fan of AI that I (hypothetically) know is below average at doing things that he is supposed to be doing.

I thought it was cancelled/not picked up?

Oh man, I should look at QoS throttling - I have a Synology that does backup to Wasabi S3 on the regular. Good call.

Man, if anyone knows or a VLAN capable wifi 7+ access point that’ll dump different SSIDs on different VLANs, please hit me up.

Right now I’m using an Orbi 6 Pro in AP mode, and it’s fine, but I’m not getting the throughput I want for streaming games over my home network.

I want to keep all my networks separated from each other:

• Primary (phones, laptops)
• IoT very limited group of things like thermostats
• Always on VPN (a weird setup I made where if you connect to this SSID you’re instantly in New Zealand)

His statement reeks of “Don’t you all have phones” energy.

How many have moved on to other jobs? Will they even be able to do a fraction of what they did before?

I’d be shocked if they weren’t feeding in old data. Anything can be training data if you’re desperate enough, including early 2000’s Myspace pages scraped by the way back machine.

it’s not security, just obscurity

IIRC for my setup it’s a bit of both. My DNS API key is scoped to only handle the specific subdomain updates instead of my entire DNS account.

I still use a wildcard for that subdomain for non-kubernetes systems, but the cert plugins for kubes is excellent at handling a LE cert per lan fqdn.

You don’t need to register a local CA

This was my biggest reason to move to Let’s Encrypt. I have a Hashicorp Vault instance in my homelab for secrets and I tried using it for an internal CA (like how the lab at work is set up), but trying to get on every device and add the full Vault chain to each individual system’s trust store was massive pain in the ass.