I think it's beyond that even - it's for local AI toolchain model development and testing or those people who have a ore-exisitng nvidia deployment infrastructure
It feels like nVidia spent a ton of money here on a piece of infrastructure (the big network pipes) that very few people will ever leverage, and that the rest of the infrastructure constrains somewhat.
I picked up a framework desktop and am running it through it's paces right now. So far, it's a impressive little box. I'm really hopeful that this continues to drive more and more enthusiast support and engagement. Getting strong vulcan or rocm supported infrastructure would be great for everyone.
The Edge Router line has been what, 5 years old since any major update? But these are still being supported. The CCTV stuff was replaced, again 5+ years ago, but I have been using Unifi switches, and Unifi protect for ~10 years now, and have not had a problem. Unifi Protect also supports ONVF now, which means it supports third party cameras, which was part of the reason people didn't like protect originally.
> The Edge Router line has been what, 5 years old since any major update?
Where's the replacement for those anyway? From what I can tell, the new unifi routers don't even officially support SSH or Serial login, nor do they support the typical configure/commit/abort procedure, nor do they officially support loading/backup up config files, nor running custom cronjobs (which I need as German ISPs require even on FTTH a 24h reconnect, and if you don't schedule one, they'll schedule one for you)
I believe UISP stuff is intended to be the replacement for the Edge line. Haven't tried it yet, but my impression is that it's more similar to the Unifi line in terms of interfaces.
How does it have feature parity if I have no ability to change the entire configuration programmatically, on reaction to certain changes?
My ISP requires a reconnect every 24h, assigning a new IPv4 and IPv6 prefix after every reconnect. That means after each reconnect I need to update DNS entries via RFC 2136, update the IPv6 range for VPN clients, and reconfigure my DECT basestation with the new IP addresses.
Currently I've got scripts as part of the config bundle that use the vyatta configure CLI to update the configuration after every reconnect, which also run on a crontab timer.
EdgeRouter series got major 3.0 update in August 2025, just a few months ago. It took them a while but it got released after series of release candidates.
Just a few words of caution - this doesn't directly compete with synoplogy. It's literally just a NAS box. That said, it's a NAS box at a awesome price / performance / capability point _if_ and only _if_ you are already in the Unifi namespace.
I would say you are almost always better buying this + a mini-pc then a synology at this point, or a Ugreen NAS + TrueNAS if you want to do amost everything a synology can do.
synology doens't even compete with synology anymore because all the new hardware requires locked in synology drives now.
It's creating a void that is getting filled with Ugreen, Minisforum, beelink, Aoostor for invoative platforms from China and classic competitors like Qnap, Asustor, Teramaster, etc for innovation for the small to mid-tier needs. 45drives in the larger spaces for folks wanting to manage things more on their own but have enterprise scale needs. Dell and HP have always competed on the high-end enterprise space and also becoming a better option, even though synology is so easy as an appliance.
Yes. Synology introduced the requirement to use first-party drives earlier this year and it was such an unmitigated disaster for them that they rolled it back just a couple of days ago.
1)It's been forever since I have used the legacy interface, so I google'd it it went away in 7.3, which was 2+ years ago, so it seems you may be on a very very old version of Unifi US. I'm running 9.5.18, and I can confirm that option no longer exists (or is needed)
1) Also on the current version, to remove a DHCP client you can click on Client Devices / DHCP, and remove there. I just tested that as well.
2) Gateway traffic by individual client, ip, zone, etc works fine, in my experience, but I am also using Policy Engines, which I don't believe is supported on the version you are using. Policy engines can apply QoS, security, or routing to any object - ip, subnet, any sort of logical grouping.
3) I agree that it used to have a lot of problems with re-adopting, but it's been a while since I have seen that - the only time I ever see a re-adopting screen is after a OS re-install.
4) Network ACLs where replaced with policy again, but again, that's pretty new - you may be running a old version.
Under these regulations - Foreign companies (anywhere in the world, including goods traded between the United States and Europe or any other nation in the world) now need Chinese government approval to export products containing any amount of rare earths metals (0.1 percent).
The 2010s and Obama called - they want their foreign policy back.
Most countries (including the US) have signed global minimum tax rates at this point. Effective tax rates (either directly or via clawbacks) are theoretically 25%.
Of course, I am not enough of an expert to know if that is happening in China. I somewhat doubt it.
Actually, the US has joined. Although it has not joined Pillar II, the effective tax rate, according to third-party economists, shows adherence to the 25% number.
With the global minimum tax rules in place, weighted by GDP and by revenue, corporate tax rates are actually fairly consistent across the world - roughly 25% worldwide. It's a myth that companies are not paying taxes, and also a myth that the largest sectors in the US are not paying taxes. It's a great talking point, though.
You also seem to be conflating investment for profit (GPUs for AI, for example) with income. Capital outlays of this type are almost always financed (see recently Nvidia, OpenAI + AMD, etc. deals). None of the large players are self-funding AI on that scale right now. This is why OpenAI's burn rate is so catastrophically high.
Perhaps for most companies, which was part of my point. But it's interesting to consider. I haven't read up too much on it in recent years.
The largest, most profitable international mega-corps always seem to pay much less because they can afford to game the system more.
It does look like my data is out of date concerning US corporate tax rates, which looks to be a flat 21% now from Trump's first term. Guess I'd only heard about the personal income tax breaks.
Spot checking Alphabet, it seems big corps might still be getting big tax breaks. A quick Google search on Alphabet Inc's effective tax rate AI summary of [1] gives:
> Alphabet's most recent effective tax rate was 16.91% for the quarter ending June 30, 2025, and 16.44% for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024. The company's effective tax rate has varied, hitting a recent low of 13.9% in 2023 before increasing again in 2024.
That looks to be about 25% cut off their taxes.
Interesting tidbit: Averaging Alphabet's Q1&Q2 revenue and taxes and then calculating what they would pay at a 25%, 35%, or 21% corporate tax rate I get:
> est_annum_lost_vs_21 => $ 6,057 millions
> est_annum_lost_vs_25 => $12,115 millions
> est_annum_lost_vs_35 => $27,259 millions
So Google alone could be paying about 3.10% (or 6.21-13.97% with 25/35% rates) worth of the proceeds from tariffs just by itself.
Is that a big amount or not isn't clear to me. But it's an interesting perspective to consider.
> You also seem to be conflating investment for profit (GPUs for AI, for example) with income. Capital outlays of this type are almost always financed
True, and my comment over-simplifies all of that. Nevertheless those finance deals effect the debt markets raising the US government's interest rates. It also effects regular home buyers as well who will likely continue seeing higher mortgage rates.
Perhaps, if they were paying more of their fair share of taxes Nvidia, OpenAI + AMD, etc would have both less expected profits in the future and therefore less ability to finance such large amounts.
They're not shelling out the cash now. Given their general profitability and large cash reserves they can leverage even larger amounts of debt than they'd be able to otherwise.
The thing is, the most common spending that they attempt to cut is spending that has multiplier effects on the economy, because it's giving money (whether directly or indirectly) to the poorest people.
Really? Please provide a decline in net dollars (excluding projected drawdowns) that demonstrates this point.
On a dollar-by-dollar basis, regardless of economic station, _every_ American has seen a combined discretionary + non-discretionary increase in benefits since 1980. The group that is less advantaged is the upper-middle class, which has seen relative stagnation.
I don’t think the next administration, whichever party ends up winning, will be likely to reverse these tariffs just based on how much revenue they bring in for the federal government.
Reducing spending is of course another different problem altogether.
It raises taxes but arguably impacts GDP in a very direct and equal way, so it mostly nets out. The argument that follows from there would be that taxing the rich would have less of an impact on GDP.
Do you not have some influence over your future morals? There's always a religious reference to say the same thing e.g "The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps"?
A couple of points:
1) The deficit applies to discretionary budget. Medicare and Social Security are not discretionary.
2) Really. You can't cut anything out of medicare and social security (both of which are the most expensive program of the kind compared to any other first world equivalent) without killing people? There is not a cent of waste in these programs?
It feels like nVidia spent a ton of money here on a piece of infrastructure (the big network pipes) that very few people will ever leverage, and that the rest of the infrastructure constrains somewhat.