The mentality is just disgusting. They use the word “cheating”. Not once did they refer to this behaviour as criminal.
Like, I could reduce my grocery bill by “cheating” and paying with counterfeit bills.
They’ve done the maths and decided they make more money through crime than they accumulate in fines.
That’s basically it. My Ubuntu server is a router, NAS, plex server, public statum-1 NTP server, wordpress server, nextcloud server, security camera NVR, SMTP/IMAP mail server, CUPS print server, tor relay, and probably a few other things I forgot about.
You can do a lot with a single CPU from 2015.
I don’t have hostapd on it anymore. I now have dedicated APs on OpenWRT. The main problem with using a WNIC for an AP is that they don’t typically have a very strong broadcast output. I had to add an amplifier, and even then it wasn’t great.
I’ve done this before on Ubuntu. You can install nftables for routing, then install hostapd for a wifi AP.
Why they changed it, I can’t say.
(Donald just liked it better that way.)