I love beancount and have used it for a small business and have used wave accounting (made by some friends in Canada). That said Quickbooks is our main system
As decided by the people. They could have politically campaigned to change that, buy out all the medallions at fair market price and the redistribute them for free in sufficient quantity.
Fuck that. Medallions are licenses and the government can grant more licenses as they see fit. They don’t need to compensate people who already hold them for granting more.
so far I am mostly using tailscale + firewall. Using a firewall directly on the host as you mentioned seemed a bit dangerous - although we are trying it on a few servers. For now cloud provider firewall + tailscale.