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Ubiquiti has had outages in the past that meant you couldn't manage the equipment right in front of you.
Even discounting the potential security implications of that kind of management, the rage I would feel in that situation is enough that I while my AP is nice, works great, I will never use any of their gateways.
I'm using a 2.5g protectli with OPNSense now, and it's easy to manage, and all local.
Oh interesting. So you can't manage Ubiquiti devices without an Internet connection? TIL
If you are concerned it’s pretty easy to setup your own controller.
Only needs to be running for management. Make a local vm