For me mechanical watches are about appreciating the precision, engineering and craftsmanship.
Sure you can get better precision with your phone or even any cheap watch with a quartz movement.
But it just seems amazing that something so small made just out of springs and levers, so small moving mechanical parts with no electronics, can keep time with a -2/+2 seconds accuracy in any wrist position (gravity) and any temperature (stuff shrinks and expands).
They have! It's just hidden in your everyday world.
The incredible engines we have now, the robotics, self opening car doors, surgical robots, those heart valves that they can implant through an artery in your groin and expand in your heart, surgical navigation and spine/brain surgery, space travel....
I set it up once using the built-in WebUI, forgot about it and it just works. That is part of the beauty, no need for anything like Unifi controller running when you need to make some changes.
I use an EdgeRouterX. It is also made by Ubiquiti but the Edge series is quite different from Unifi, seems more to be targeted at maybe ISPs, it has a built-in management UI and does not require (or work with) a Unifi controller. I also use a Zyxel switch with PoE to power the U6 Lite.
I think the main point is that it should not and does not matter what you use. You can mix and match anything you want if those devices work on their own and do not require any central management.
I do not need or want some Unifi controller and being able to look at data about my devices and being locked into their products, I just want devices that want that I configure once and forget about them.
There is one very easy thing you can do to break the first step of the attack
- enable Screen Time
- set a Screen Time password, make it different than the iPhone password
- use Screen Time to disable making changes to your account
With this the attacker would not be able to go to the step of changing the account password without entering the different Screen Time password.
I wonder why this is not mentioned or recommended, seems kind of obvious. Sure it is a bit inconvenient but you probably very rarely make changes to your account.
> • Enable additional protection. Some apps, such as Venmo, PayPal and Cash App, let you add a passcode. Just don’t use the same one as your iPhone.
> You can also set up a Screen Time passcode for yourself, then enable account restrictions to prevent an Apple ID password change, the way parents do with their kids’ devices. In Settings, go to Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions, then toggle Content & Privacy Restrictions on. If you haven’t already set up Screen Time, you’ll need to choose a passcode. (Again, make it different from your iPhone’s.)
> Scroll down to the Allow Changes section, and where it says Account Changes, select Don’t Allow. Whenever you need to access your iCloud account settings, you’ll have to go to Screen Time and re-enable this.
You can enable restrictions in Screen Time, and not just restricting screentime. You can completely block Siri and dictation for example, or block account changes like the parent comment said.
