Maybe they mean main network? Lots of people seem to have a separate vlan with strict rules on what they can cobtact for IoT devices nowadays due to how poorly secured they are.

Or fortunately, the larger the store, the more it messes up with the local economy. The profits from local or semi local businesses can stay in the area. The profits from the large players are funneled out into accounts waiting for the next thing to invest in, sustainable or not.

https://youtu.be/r7-e_yhEzIw

In many ways Walmart is worse that target. They specifically will go to a town, annihilate its local economy and leave as soon as it becomes slightly inconvenient to their profit expectations.

Not to mention the PR on search engines trying to tell people searching that Walmart is not a net negative for tax payers when a lot of their employees are on social programs. Of they are not paying the taxes, we are. Fuck them.

Edit: relevant video that applies to many big box stores: https://youtu.be/r7-e_yhEzIw

As someone with an n100, I did have to spend on an apple TV to have a hardware accelerated client for some of the harder to transcode content (h265 4k at higher bit rates). N100 will absolutely choke on some of those even with hardware acceleration enabled.

Just replying to agree to everything. You will also not believe just how fast home assistant feels running on an n100 compared to a RPI 4. Can’t speak of the RPI 5 wince I don’t have one, but unless you plan to interface with hardware, a used thin client mini PC just can’t be beat with the 5 being so expensive for this use case.