I am Canadian and happily living in Central Europe. Left Canada while the going was good.

Switzerland cannot be improved upon. It can only be ruined.

>":Roll Eyes: Would they kick their own babies out once they hit ten million?"

Their population is in DECLINE, like almost all Western nations. There is ZERO chance of that happening. They will very likely allow immigration, but with hard caps and based on their own criteria, not just anyone that wants in or crosses their borders without permission. Those criteria will likely be based on things like knowing the language, having valuable/compatible skills/education, already having family there, understanding and likelihood to assimilating to general Swiss values, etc.

>"What this really comes down to, like all immigration debates, is racism. They don't like the color of the skin or the religion of the immigrants."

And you couldn't be more WRONG.

Most people don't give a damn about the "color of the skin." What they care about is *CULTURE* which is a set of beliefs and the way people act. That is NOT "RACISM".

And not liking someone else's religion that wants to push alien values that are incompatible with most of the native citizens is, guess what, ALSO NOT "RACISM".

So do us all a favor and stop using the word "racism", it is so unbelievably overused and abused now, it means almost nothing.

>"Until recently the only way to access the cameras from mobile was through the cloud service, you could access the device over https directly but then it wouldnt let you view video if you were doing so on a mobile device."

No, you could also use a VPN and access it directly as well. Granted, MOST people that want to use the app (and it is certainly not required) will not have a problem with using a cloud login in the app just for notifications and to stream the video. That is very "normal" for most any platform. But the video and settings are still coming directly from your own physical box. Unifi's cloud is just directing and connecting you to your box own box. And that communication is all encrypted.

>"Their IPv6 support is also very poor, and there are a lot of networks using CGNAT for legacy service so inbound legacy traffic is not possible."

They have made lots of improvements in IPV6 in 2025. If you haven't seen their stuff in a year, you would be pretty amazed at how quickly things have advanced.

>"There is no option to configure IPv6 through the web interface"

Yes there is. But I can't speak on the details, since I don't use it. But I see the settings.

>"There's also no built in dynamic dns support which is needed if the ISP keeps changing your prefix."

Yes there is. I am using it now. That has been available in the web user interface for years, I think. When last did you last use/look at Unifi's gateway???

I am rooting for Disney to win and set a precedent that training an AI on copyrighted content without permission from the copyright holder of that content is illegal. Bring down the whole "generative AI" house of cards (since basically all these AIs are trained on content without permission)

Birth rates are falling as AI and robotics mean that fewer workers will be required in the future
Along with population limits, this could balance out nicely
Of course, things rarely balance out nicely

Last time I filled an ESTA form in 2023, the dropdown menu for social media accounts included "GitHub". That tells all you need to know. Of course, optional field so I just skipped it. But there was also "Other" field, which can pretty much mean anything.

>"any women "injected" by her husband is indistinguishable from a random woman with donated sperm."

Actually, that isn't quite true. There are subtle processes at work in couples choosing each other in unconscious ways. Some are based on smell, some on visual health cues. Interestingly, they tend to help make sure that they are genetically more "compatible" with each other. I don't know how effective it is, but I do remember reading about it more than once. One was really strange, it had to do with having women smell different men's worn shirts and describe what they feel, then compare to what various blood tests show.

My point is, why does the HDMI licencing mob care if the implementation is open or closed given that they will.get there royalty (or penalties from a court for companies that don't pay) for every port anyway?

My understanding is that if you want to make a HDMI device you need to pay a license fee (covering patents and etc) and that the HDMI people can and will use you if you use HDMI without paying.

And if they control IP rights that allow them to force everyone to pay up, why would this stuff (which isn't even the full spec, just the bits bring done in the driver rather than the firmware or hardware) bring open cause a problem?

My understanding is that despite the competition catching up in terms of the image creation/editing capabilities Abobe is still where you need to be to when you need to manage font licensing and pantone color matching and print workflows.

I'd be happy to be told I'm outdated/wrong on that though...

>"The main limitation is that it requires you to use their NVR products"

It is true that Unifi cameras can't be used without running Unifi Protect. And there are many low-cost options for that. But Protect also fully supports RTSP, so you can send the video to something else and never even touch Protect (other than for setup), if you wish. For example, at work we send the video from all the Access door readers to our large Synology system where we store/archive/access the video with their NVR (Synology Surveillance Station).

And you can connect 3rd party ONVIF cameras to Protect, too, which is nice.

>"The unifi stuff leans heavily towards cloud, you can force it to do direct connections but its not the default"

That is not accurate. There is zero dependency on the "Cloud", other than if you want to install updates. Or if you optionally choose to use their cloud tools to gain remote access more easily. The login, the settings, the processing, the web server, the data, and all the video are all local.

Ubiquiti's signature feature is having everything local. It is one of several reasons they have become increasingly more and more popular.

It seems like Paramount is owned by a scumball and Netflix makes a lot of crappy shows
I wonder which option sucks less?
I wonder if any mega-corp can make good art?

If you really believe that soldiers and/or sailors aren't trained to do exactly that today, you're living in a fantasy world.