I know this is very late but the term you’re looking for is “Access Point” often abbreviated as AP.

“Mesh access point” search should come up with the right products, probably mostly UniFi. You can also roll your own with some second hand routers, if they support mesh like Asus AiMesh or via custom firmware like OpenWRT. But that requires a bit of skill/learning and time.

Certainly not an expert here but the GUI “being there” means you can configure something about the traffic flowing through, maybe VLANs or QoS. That also might be why some switches have fans. Deciding what packet has priority or is allowed is a bit more computationally complex (read: heat generating) than just pushing a packet to the right address.

You might want a VLAN if you have a server connected to the same switch as your PC, but they shouldn’t “see” each other. If you didn’t have a VLAN there, your router or firewall can’t manage anything about the connection. Say you have a website and database on your server and only the website should be accessible by your computer, you’d be able to configure that with the firewall.

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The Dutch student loan program is gonna be in a lot of trouble… (Dienst Uitvoering Onderwijs)

Yep, I really hope a future will become reality where Adobe has some competition and/or an incentive to port the suite to Linux. I just can’t help but cheer on the sounds against Stockholm syndrome. So much of these “it doesn’t work on Linux” is just the company intentionally trying to prohibit integration with open systems (looking at you HDMI forum). In the end I agree, though, when giving advice, it’s best not to assume the “only gaming” use case.

From my experience it’s still a common misconception and I think it’s the largest potential group that can switch. Sucks that your usecase is unsupported, though. Just out of interest, what software can you still not run?

It’s been a while since I’ve watched it myself, but remember them going into the ownership structure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNZy603as5w

There’s basically no way for them to not make it a subscription model.

Though, not the same thing. I really like the Dutch implementation for their old maps: https://topotijdreis.nl

Another Many-to-many example within this usecase would be “subscriptions”. Users can subscribe to multiple channels and channels can have multiple users subscribed to them. You would use another relational table that stores the channel_id & user_id, with uniqueness for both together, since “being subscribed to one specific channel multiple times” doesn’t make sense and perhaps put a column to store “hitting the bell” in there too.

This is a pretty interesting counter example: https://www.eteknix.com/running-yuzu-on-switch-gives-you-better-performance-than-native-gaming/

But, as others have said, exceptions confirm the rule.