Most I’ve worked with are not vendor-specific and use Ethernet frames. If you know the specs of your ONT, you can even buy an SFP that can connect directly to your router in place of the ISPs ONT. https://www.fs.com/c/xgspon-xgpon-combo-4897

I can see several reasons why this may be done, and most depend on the retailer and product. The short version is that restocking fees make sense for large or valuable items, and for small businesses.

High-value items like electronics, jewelry, etc. are prone to theft and return fraud. For example: someone could buy a computer or jewelry, swap some parts, and return it with different parts that are worth much less. It takes time and resources to test the product to verify it’s the same as what was sold.

Large items like furniture are very expensive to ship and when one is puchased, the retailer would often restock the item which costs them money.

Small businesses are often charged higher fees by manufacturers and distributors for ordering or shipping products, as they generally don’t order in high amounts. This means that they will make less money if they sell an item for the same price as a large corporation. Small businesses also don’t have the same resources for testing returned products, so processing returns has a much larger impact on them vs large corporations. Because of this, it often makes sense to implement a restocking fee to make up for these costs.

Large corporations generally have a streamlined process for processing, testing, and shipping returned products. While some things are still expensive to process, it’s significantly less impactful for a large business to process a return. It still costs money to process a return, but in my opinion restocking fees can be greedy for larger corporations that can eat those costs.

I’ve found garlic can go a long way when you’re cooking without onion, though it definitely depends on the recipe.

It does not, here’s the list of exceptions from this analysis of the bill: Several different types of entities and products are exempt from provisions of the Repair Act, including but not limited to:

• motor vehicle manufacturers;
• manufacturers of power generation or storage equipment and certain products that store electrical energy and transmit the energy after storage;
• products that generate or store electrical energy from solar radiation;•
• products that have never been available for retail sale;
• manufacturers or distributors of products primarily intended for use in a medical setting;
• utility, agricultural, construction, and mining equipment;
• off-road equipment, including tractors, farm and yard equipment, outdoor power equipment, marine and recreational vehicles, and power sources;
• set-top boxes, modems, routers, or all-in-one devices delivering internet, video, and voice systems that are distributed by a video, internet, or voice service provider if the service provider offers equivalent or better, readily available replacement equipment at no charge to the customer

Check out Trilium Next! It’s under more active development after development on the original project stopped.

Thanks MikroTik! That was informative and concise. Where is the best place to learn more about port-based QoS on a CRS300 series switch?

Many smart TVs allow you to disagree to the privacy policy during setup, which allows you to use it as a “dumb TV” which doesn’t connect to WiFi or have other apps installed. I know Sony TVs do this and I’ve heard others do the same.

Governments aren’t fundamentally bad. Having a governing body along with laws and regulations is a good thing when done beneficently. For example, government is responsible for access to public education, libraries, banking, worker safety, and hospitals - all of which are objectively good things to have as a society. The problems usually occur when some individuals have more power/influence than others to choose what the government does, which is what’s happening in much of the world right now.

I’ve been able to play it well on lower graphics settings and using a community controller layout.