Their knowledge stops at creating sway screenshots.

Not true. The current layout is the result of years of evolution based on feedback by typists and vendors.

Let me drop this quote here:

“Right-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable …”

I’m paranoid so I have created a physically separate network for the IoT stuff. Everything gets its IP from the same server from a /25. The lower is the trusted network, high IPs are not. IoT network devices cannot open connections to the other network. A bit awkward, but works fine.

I don’t see how VLANs would help OP.

That BF game, where the tutorial instructions were given in broken english by some manager from the company making the game. Pure cringe.

but cash sucks

I don’t know how to say this, but you write way too much. Probably part of the problem….

But any IP packet should trigger an arp “who has?”.

I would check this first too, seems a bit like it. Check your arp table for anything nasty.

I agree, people come here to learn. Don’t gatekeep information.

The first sentence is not really true though.

It seems that they were happy that they could get rid of you. Other team probably got word about the problems with you, so backed out. I would say your days are counted, so look for a new role is a good idea. Any idea what was the REAL problem with you? Be honest. Do you suck at your job? That’s usually not a reason to annoy your managers. Are you unpleasant to collaborate with? Are you slacking? That’s more likely an issue. Unless your employer has access to a very good talent pool to replace your headcount.

A spherical vacuum consisting of free government money.

How would that be an antitrust issue?

“Hey Bob, you did add a retry when you added that call to service X?

Umm, no?

Oh for fuck’s sake!”

All the fucking time.

Like every other Fowler article?

How do you Google anything when all the results are AI generated crap for generating ad revenue?

time to do some perf profiling

Connect using 2.4GHz, create own network with the 5GHz antenna?