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The same is true for our AI processing on the cameras. This is entirely local and private. You can even air gap the UniFi Protect system from the Internet and it'll operate fine.

It's based on Neoverse N2 which in our other platforms (e.g., ENVR Core, UDM Beast, EF Core) has contributed to vast improvements in performance versus ARM Cortex.

Just take a look at the level of complexity in home lab subreddits!

I don’t quite get if people do it for interest, for love of the tech, or if they are technocratic and believe in levelling up their skill to get k8s on their CV like you say.

All I think is “this looks painful to manage”!

I think this goes for any technology group with any stage of company. I work in networking and genuinely of the product I sell, my customers only need a small amount of core functionality and default settings - the rest is “bells and whistles”.

But still, no matter what, the odd customer demands they need all these complexities turned on for no discernible reason.

IMO it’s a far better approach with any platform to deploy the minimum and turn things on if you need to as you develop.

Incidentally, I’ve been exposed to “traditional” cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, AWS) through work and tried a few times to use them for personal projects in recent years and get bewildered by the number of toggles in the interface and strange (to me) paradigms. I recently tried Cloudflare Workers as a test of an idea and was surprised how simple it was.

Prepare your child for the path, not the path for your child.

The root cause of my “issue” is I’m human and I’ve evolved to work with people face-to-face, not through a computer.

I’m not yearning for social interaction because I need a friend. I’ve got friends and they’re not at my job.

I’m yearning for the variety of different communication methods I have in a physical domain with the added bonus that I can change the environment I’m in to accommodate different tasks.

Currently in crisis because I simply can't handle communication in remote work. For something I do for the majority of my working day, I feel devoid of human interaction to such an extent that it's massively affecting my mental health.

I regularly find myself clock-watching until the next time I can talk to someone because everyone is always busy - there are no water coolers or coffee breaks to stitch in between.

Even if you create the virtual coffee break and have a chat with people, often we're pushed to abandon it - presumably because it's flipped from an opportunistic (oh, we're all of the phone, let's go grab a coffee) to a scheduled event which a) gets dropped and b) doesn't naturally recur.

I feel I could have written this exact reply myself.

Perhaps this is the first time I’ve been properly challenged by a new wave of technology straight from go and perhaps a sign of age. However, I still have misgivings about some of the tech of the last decade and its lasting negative impacts.

It makes me want to step away from tech and do something closer to the physical world.

Travelling alone for me has yielded two massive benefits:

* I see more than I am expecting as I meet more people. Solo travel is lonely and you want to speak to others, when you do you get new experiences. Theres nothing stopping you talk to people when you travel with others but the yearning for interaction isn’t as strong. Ex: meeting someone in Beijing and going for a proper local breakfast eating things I’d never imagined.

* It challenges me to overcome my comforts. I’ve experienced far more by pushing my boundaries beyond what I thought possible. Ex: cycling the US Pacific Coast and needing shelter/resources and accepting the help you can get only to find kind people, new experiences and great local recommendations.

Almost every time I share stories at least a couple of stories come out of times I have travelled solo.

Humanity needs constraint.

Beautiful art is created with constraint - here's a statue I carved purely out of one of the most difficult materials, marble.

The most significant speeches of our time are delivered once, not on repeat.

Even, on topic with the post, in my opinion Twitter's early attractiveness was the challenge of posting on a subject within the character limit constraint.

Our default state as a species is to find ways to survive. Constraint flexes our brains to develop innovative ways to reach a goal. Information about other people is a significant asset in survival because we're built to learn things from others and to use that knowledge to further out survival. Simply standing in my house and saying "oh wow" will make my kids run to me to ask what it is.

The current information age is tapping on all the systems we've evolved to survive in terms of information gathering, it's just that knowing that someone is eating a delicious meal in the city is not critical to survival - but once you know the information you can't unknow it leading to information overload. We're coaxed into feeling like we should care and we should know but it's a huge tax on the brain to deal with the complexity of the world.

"Could I interest you in everything all of the time." - Bo Burnham

There's a beauty in people finding and fixing these seemingly tiny gaps in their daily lives. It reeks of the serenity in someone's world where 1) this is a problem they're willing to invest time in, 2) they have the time to resolve the problem, and 3) they seem to really enjoy it.

It's in my mind akin to the master craftsperson perfecting their work over the years.

True vocation.

I’m stating that I’m after an environment that’s physical, not virtual.

I’m not saying that only physical environments have those qualities - I’m saying through my experience I work better, feel better, and contribute better when I can communicate in a physical space and not a virtual one.

Again, as I say, whatever is right for the individual. If virtual works for you, that’s great, but I’m consciously stepping out of remote work as I really struggle with it.

I’m nearly 7 years into hybrid/remote and am seeking opportunity to rejoin a proper collaborative working environment that’s physical, not virtual.

However, what’s right for me isn’t right for you and enforcing a rule one way or another does not work so I agree with your point.

Megacorps need to understand that we humans have a range of preferences and, if we’re to assume some prefer remote and some prefer office, then making a big decision as Amazon has will alienate a decent amount of workers. Cue calamity.