On the user friendly note… The unfortunate part is that I’d love to use Signal, but there is no one on it. And I don’t mean that millions of people use it is today, but there isn’t a single person in my circle that uses it. Even if i started today and convinced one person, to use it, it wouldn’t be something that I would default to because the non privacy focused apps are just easier.

So my arguement is there are no simple alternatives because every alternative still hasn’t solved the population/popularity issue. I need one of these apps to be able to import ongoing groups and conversations that people can just immediately pick up in signal when I abandon whatsapp or whatever… That’s before I start using it, let alone my mom.

I do hope they get there though

I’ll ask some basics:

Is the ubiquity switch the flex-xg? Make sure you’re using the 10G ports as the poe port is only 1G.

I’m assuming all the ethernet cables are rated for 10G?

Are any of the switches or NICs manually configured to negotiate at a lower transmit rate?

That’s all I’ve got, good luck.

And I immediately deleted both of those notes the second they appeared in my list.

Thanks for the recommendation, trying red hat now.