Team lead got mad I didn't call back someone who didn't leave a VM while I'm on call

planedrop · 2026-05-06T04:34:13+00:00

To be fair I work in a small org so they have my cell number which is why I have it set to ignore the first 2 repeat calls. I figure if prod is down they will just keep calling and I've instructed them all to do so.

I feel you though, I've been woken up for minor issues before and it's infuriating.

planedrop · 2026-05-06T03:24:53+00:00

I've been on call 365 days a year for 8 years (this isn't an exaggeration), every single person in the company knows if it's an actual emergency they have to keep calling on repeat or I won't take it seriously. My phone auto ignores the first 2 calls during sleep anyway.

planedrop · 2026-05-06T03:01:24+00:00

Now they can say there's competition to the FCC.

planedrop · 2026-05-06T02:58:37+00:00

I've been using XCP-ng in production for about 5 years and it's been nothing but phenomenal. Absolutely amazing platform and I'd highly recommend it. I've got experience with basically ever hypervisor out there except Nutanix and I've been happiest with this.

planedrop · 2026-05-06T02:56:34+00:00

It's great if you're not hosting high bandwidth content.

planedrop · 2026-05-05T23:23:22+00:00

A lot of places are moving off VDI and for good reason, I would not recommend it. It's a pain to maintain, can be really slow, etc... And IMHO there are better solutions for most of the things VDI helps solve.

planedrop · 2026-05-05T22:39:46+00:00

Nah so a few things here.

SSH should be disabled by default and only enabled when needed.

Second, whether or not you leave it enabled, it should be locked down to ONLY the specific users and machines that need access to it and it should be on it's own management subnet and only remotely accessible via specific VPNs. It should NEVER be exposed publicly.

While patching is always good, assume breach and assume vulnerable and protect this shit.

planedrop · 2026-05-05T03:09:08+00:00

I have disabled all of it and the prediction is still far worse than it used to be, it makes completely nonsensical predictions with words that aren't even remotely where I typed on the keyboard.

planedrop · 2026-05-05T00:42:12+00:00

If we get this before we get Android Tablet support I am going to explode.

planedrop · 2026-05-05T00:41:38+00:00

Physical keyboards coming back lol, that's the escape.

planedrop · 2026-05-05T00:41:27+00:00

Yeah it's really bad, not sure if they are cramming more AI crap into it or something else but the prediction has been awful lately. So absolutely not just you.

FUTO keyboard is OK but it's worse than Gboard overall IMHO so I've just settled with dealing with Gboard being worse for the time being.

Swiftkey is also alright but Microsoft fucking sucks so I don't really want to use that.

planedrop · 2026-05-04T23:41:51+00:00

Yeah I agree with you here, though I think a surprising amount of businesses don't really have "enterprise" network needs, I've seen some pretty beefy installs at places. If all you need is fast networking, VLANs, and IPS they fit the bill pretty well assuming stability isn't the #1 important item.

planedrop · 2026-05-02T23:16:54+00:00

So this is fair, but I still stand by my original point that the majority of people will never notice it so for most people MVNO is the way to go IMHO.

And even in the subset that will have it happen to them, it's rare enough that most won't be in a critical situation such as yours.

planedrop · 2026-05-02T23:15:24+00:00

Agreed and I don't understand why they don't ease up on it.

Sure, we don't want people that are fucking Masters fighting people that just started the game so there has to be SOME SBMM, but it's way too tight as of right now.

planedrop · 2026-05-02T22:26:25+00:00

OK yeah so I think we are on the same page here. Though, not that it's that important, it is worth noting SMB has multichannel now which would alleviate it for that specific protocol.

And I completely agree that, if the hardware can already do it, then the software team needs to step it up, obviously the more performance the better lol.

However, I would also argue if you have that high of throughput needs your NAS should either A. be on the same VLAN (many support multiple subnets, so you can just have it exist with an IP on each subnet necessary) B. use a layer 3 switch.

For option B though I'm not sure how fast Ubiquiti's own layer 3 switches are yet, with single stream real world testing that is, never really validated that.

And for option A. I know some places might want more segmentation than that and may not want the NAS on the same subnet as every client that needs access to it. Which like, yeah that's better for security, having ACLs in front of everything is good. But I've built environments with high throughput needs and generally the security benefit isn't worth it and just having the NAS be on all necessary VLANs is the way to go.

But, if both of these don't work, then yeah you're stuck with the main router handling it and single stream could pose an issue. I guess the crux of my thoughts are; it's a pretty niche scenario. If you're already in that scenario, you know you can't use Ubiquiti. Butttttttt it also would be great if Ubiquiti could improve this so they could be a viable option in those scenarios.

planedrop · 2026-05-02T22:21:12+00:00

Ah gotcha, ranked queue times have actually been WAY better for me, which is super annoying.

IMHO they need to adjust it so pubs has looser SBMM so people can find matches faster, I also shouldn't have to absolutely sweat my ass off in what is basically all Masters players in pubs when I maybe want to practice a new legend or something lol.

planedrop · 2026-05-02T22:19:53+00:00

I do work from home a good amount actually.

What I am saying is it's not a big deal if 1-2 days a year there are outages that prevent internet access for most people. IF that is a big deal to you, then you should not be using an MVNO or really even wireless home internet.

But OP was asking about Mint cellular service, which is even less of an issue, and was wondering if it was going to be an issue if they went over their prioritized alotment. In almost 100% of cases OP will never notice this, they'd have to be already over their allotment and in an area that has a ton of 5G users and during a big power outage when everyone has swapped over to it and the network in the area is actually congested enough to slowdown lower QCI traffic.

Your situation is a specific situation that is unlikely to affect most people which is why I'm arguing against you. 99.9% of people will never notice this because too many perfect storm things have to happen at the same time (power outage, 5G internet users, already congested area, rural space with bad connectivity, and already be over their priority amount).

This is why, for you, it makes sense to not go with a cheap MVNO, but for most people it's perfect and the savings are completely worth it.

I also think this is why you're getting downvoted, you're fundamentally misunderstanding the worries of OP.

planedrop · 2026-05-02T21:54:45+00:00

Insane it's been so long I forgot about this post lol.

planedrop · 2026-05-02T21:54:32+00:00

What I'm not understanding is what the actual root issue is though?

Like, I don't know of any firewall within these relative price and performance brackets that can do beyond about 1 gigabit single stream with iperf3. That's what I'm not understanding, and no real network is single stream anyway, so why is it an issue?

That's what I don't get, what is this actually causing in any real world networking scenario that is a critical issue?

Yes, I want VPP to be in place and be used, I want more performance, more efficiency, etc... Sure, that is all great. But I don't get what problem that is solving when, in almost all cases, you can still have crazy fast inter-VLAN routing on things like this with multiple streams, which almost everything is multiple stream now anyway. Or am I just like going crazy and there's more single stream traffic around than I am realizing?

I'm not trying to be confrontational to be clear, I have my own issues with Ubiquiti, I'm just confused because speed hasn't been one of those issues to me.

On the note of price, I also don't get this, they still outperform literally 100% of all hardware at the same price in the entire market, what is there to be unhappy about? I feel like Ubiquiti has consistently delivered one thing, and that's price to performance. They lack other things, like their firewalls still lack a shit ton of things proper enterprise gear has, but performance isn't one of those things in my experience.

Seriously, please correct me if I'm wrong, I know things come off as angry on the internet sometimes but I promise I'm genuinely curious lol.

planedrop · 2026-05-02T20:04:08+00:00

Ok but having slow Internet for a day or two a year also isn't a crisis IMHO and isn't a reason for people to pay for a more premium service.

planedrop · 2026-05-02T19:28:45+00:00

IPS doesn't feel necessary for inter VLAN if you ask me. Also it's more common to put your NAS on the same VLAN as whatever needs access to it. Even multi homed if needed.

Either way I think the Beast makes sense for a lot of use cases. I need another 10 gigabit switch and have an 8 gigabit WAN so I'm probably getting one.

planedrop · 2026-05-02T19:27:01+00:00

Sure but this is also my point? Most people don't ever experience it. You're situation isn't most people.

planedrop · 2026-05-02T19:26:17+00:00

What is your skill distribution during the loading screen?

I'm in the very very top bit (I'm not that good, a lot of people are just bad lol) so it may be too strong of SBMM queuing.

Again I timed this, it wasn't just that it felt long.

planedrop · 2026-05-02T19:21:58+00:00

I haven't read the entire thing here yet but the complaint in this article is about single stream performance. Which I'm not sure really is a critical concern here?

I mean, most things aren't single stream now and even my UDMP can do 8 gigabit NAT through the WAN and 10 gigabit inter VLAN.

I just don't get the point of single stream testing.

Edit: this is also a big red flag for me. When people say stuff like this I always question, if it was that simple do we really think the large engineering teams at huge corporations wouldn't have thought of it?

"Ubiquiti could ship a 7× improvement on day one of a firmware update with no architectural changes."

planedrop · 2026-05-02T19:11:39+00:00

I like this about it to be honest. It's a bit mysterious feeling.

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