I used to run PFSense ( pretty much the same as Opensense ) and really liked it but moved over to Ubiquity in the last year or so. Here’s my 2 cents…

Go with Ubiquity if you want a single unified interface for managing all your devices. You’ll have “soft vendor lock in”, their kit will work just fine with a mix of hardware but it’s best if everything is Ubiquity

Go with Opensense if you want complete flexibility in the kit you’re using. I feel likeI had more fine grained control with PFSense than I do with Ubiquity but I think that’s a symptom of how the UI/UX rather than the features

You can do the same stuff with both options. I’m very happy with my Ubiquity set up, I don’t see myself changing anything anytime soon

I hate it , thanks!

Mr President there’s been a second signal chat

Take it as a ranty blog interspaced with some furry art.

You can just ignore the furry art if it’s not your style because helpfully all of the important content is in the text.

Soatok links to the same Latacora blog on the first line and says that they’re only really going to reword what’s said there.

I’m not here to litigate the demerits of PGP. The Latacora article I linked above makes the same arguments I would make today, and is a more entertaining read.

PGP/GPG maintainers have had many years to fix the problems that have been identified but they haven’t. Is it safe when used “properly”? Yes! It’s absolutely safe when used properly but the problem is it’s hard to use full stop.

I’m not saying modern solutions are perfect, because they’re not but the alternates that Latacora ( and Soatok ) suggest are better. Do you want to encrypt a file? Use age. Use minisign/signify for signing. They do do one thing and do it well. Signal is easy to use and sorts all of the key management for you. Most people don’t know what a private key is. They just know they want encrypted messaging because of the NSA or Snowden or whatever his name was on the news, they can’t remember and they don’t really care.

PGP has legitimate use cases but the vast majority of people don’t have those cases and should just use Signal. Signal and the Signal protocol is the centralised tool you’re looking for.

The idea came from a British guy called Robert Owen in the 19th century. It was a huge step forward in workers rights seeing as it was fairly normal for factories to work from sunrise to sunset to try and maximise their output.

Typical working hours were 10-18 hrs a day 6 to 7 days a week

I’m not saying I love working 8hrs a day and modern society can definitely do better but this was a positive step forward in history and should be celebrated… celebrated isn’t quite the right word but I hope you get what I mean