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  • Same here in the US, though I’ll say as someone actually colorblind, it’s not the easiest to decipher the red/yellow when at speed until you’re somewhat close. Normally not an issue since anything resembling red=start slowing down, but there are situations where a standard light may start acting as a single flashing red or yellow, and that can be tough to figure out at speed. Flashing reds are supposed to have stops signs here as far as I know, but there’s been at least one intersection that hasn’t had them, which certainly gives me some anxiety about taking that as a rule. The system works alright enough, but it’s definitely frustrating that we settled on red/green for things when that’s the most common color blindness. I have some strong opinions on bathroom indicators, particularly in airport bathrooms where the lighting is often sub par too







  • I’m not actually sure what happens if you have multiple cloud devices on the same network, but I think the cloud versions often have some impact to the capabilities. The routers might have less VPN throughput in the cloud version, or only able to run one or two of their services at once instead of all since they’re also tasked with routing etc, don’t remember the specifics but stuff like that. It’s also confusing as they have lines like the dream machine that combine multiple capabilities into one, and it ends up being a mess trying to figure out what exactly is the best route to go. Frustrating but I’ll say the equipment itself has been quite nice spare for the occasionally buggy software