Problem solved

But…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2_zb6oyep8

Admittedly I haven’t used Omada even though my gear supported it (before I flashed OpenWRT on it), but I don’t think it bears any resemblance to Ansible except in the most basic sense of being able to accomplish administrative tasks somehow.

What I was expecting was something that would provide a web dashboard showing all of my OpenWRT (and ideally, misc. other devices) at once, maybe with a nice diagram of the network topology and stuff like that.

I think that’s a common defense.

It’s not. Or rather, it is something people commonly try, but it doesn’t work. The court system is designed by lawyers, for lawyers. The idea that a contract isn’t valid just because a non-lawyer can’t understand it categorically does not fly with them.

Does there exist something more appropriate?

EDIT: I talked with a guy and totally forgot an important point, does reflashing the hardware prevent me from using features with the vendors i listed? I know companies can suck

If they’re software features and OpenWRT doesn’t implement them, yes. That’s not really the fault of the hardware manufacturer, though; that’s just a tradeoff you’ve chosen to make.

For example, I’m pretty sure you won’t be able to use Ubiquiti’s UniFi or TP-Link’s Omada software-defined networking to manage your OpenWRT-flashed device, but that’s just because OpenWRT hasn’t implemented it, not because installing it trips some kind of DRM fuse or whatever.

(I think OpenWISP might be the OpenWRT-compatible Free Software equivalent for that sort of thing, but I have yet to look into it myself so I’m not sure.)

Otherwise, I haven’t personally heard of any vendors intentionally sabotaging their hardware such that it disables itself when flashed with OpenWRT, but that’s not the same as an affirmative statement that it can’t ever happen.

Everything’s an outdoor activity if you’re exhibitionist enough! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Edit: oh wait, you meant genealogy research.

Poettering has always been a piece of shit.

I have a domain, but all I use it for so far is email (with an email provider, not my own mail server, hosted locally or otherwise). I’d still call that “usable,” though.

Your attitude is very reasonable. I strive to be as unreasonable as I can.

I will reject the misbehaving website rather than resort to using Chromium.

To be fair, it’s plausible. They might not have wanted a home inspector writing up “low water pressure” as a potential problem. 'Course, the inspector might write “water splashes out of the sink” as a problem instead, but that at least is more straightforward to solve, rather than being possibly indicative of a bigger hidden problem.

Yeah, hostile design (or “hostile architecture,” which is the more searchable term) is like IRL enshittification: it’s not just when it’s bad, it’s when it’s intentionally bad in order to serve some goal other than fulfilling the needs of the user.

The most common example is a bench with an armrest in the middle so that homeless people can’t (easily/comfortably) sleep on it.

Corporations can go out of business, have an incentive to enshittify, etc. Communities/non-profit foundations generally don’t.

The only way a community project can cease to be “stable” (in the “not going away” sense you’re using it) is if literally nobody competent cares enough to maintain it anymore, and if that’s the case, was anything of value really lost?

You’ve got that backwards. Community distros are more likely to be stable than corporate ones.

Gather a lot of mint, put it in your cave in a pile, and lay down on it before going to sleep for the winter.

Creating more mainstream use-cases is how you get people to donate more bandwidth.

You’re the one making it personal and lying about my motivations. Regardless of what you think of the merits of my arguments about the actual topic, everyone can see that you’re being an uncivil asshole.

Way to ignore the BIGGEST point in my comment to hyper focus on a secondary point just for ego.

Fuck off with that. I am only participating in this conversation solely because I’m sick and tired of seeing influencers like Other Linus flounder and damage the reputation of Linux because they keep taking trendy bad advice spouted by people like you.

This is your key disconnect. You see the OS as an experience. Most people don’t. They see it as a tool to get want they want.

🙄

Quit reaching, you’re only damaging your credibility even further.

Also, if you’re directing the average joe to use the terminal, it’s too hard. Seriously.

Okay, I admit, that’s one flaw (out of many) with Kubuntu: there are two different entries for Steam in DIscover (the graphical software installer interface) because of Canonical’s obsession with Snaps, so that’s why I wrote an unambiguous console command instead.

To be clear, I don’t actually like Snaps or some of Canonical’s other business practices. I don’t want to be recommending Kubuntu. But I can’t deny that it’s the easiest distro I’ve ever used.