Just buy old Ruckus units and run the mesh on their Unleashed firmware. Still worse than wired backhaul, but better than running a VPN entirely internal to your own network.

This isn’t how ads are paid for anymore. It’s a fun concept, but doesn’t do anything.

Linux clients are currently only available as .deb or .rpm packages. Just a heads up for folks.

So we agree, engineers (much like most any job) are important; however, they aren’t scientists.

The use of another discipline’s tools doesn’t make you a member of that discipline. Sorry.

Oh, they call it science in the course guide, ya got me! Very clever!

Holy motivated reasoning Batman!

Cryptography maybe, but software development much like actual engineering isn’t “science.”

Doesn’t matter for this. You’d be shocked to know everything that relies on platform maintained by the world’s largest advertising service — Steam, Discord, Etcher, Visual Studio.