It's bigger in both dimensions.
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I propose a little cultural exchange. I'm sure Framework and Fairphone could stand to do a little cross pollination.
Great, now how about action against the murderers caught on film.
That's fair. Once you understand some basics though it's not too bad. There's a UI just like any router you might already be used to. The most confusing part for someone who is new to this would probably be setting up the VM hardware plumbing, and understanding that a passthrough means that hardware is unavailable to the host.
If you want a dedicated device, sure. Image it with OPNSense and it'll basically just work.
You can also take any desktop you already have, fire up an OPNSense VM, pcie passthrough your WAN NIC + WiFi card, bridge to a separate LAN NIC, go through the setup, and there's your router.
Best of both worlds -- Debian + Nix home-manager. Debian gives you incredible stability and plenty of usage resources. Nix gives you anything too new for Debian and functionally confines the more experimental end of your config to user space.
Cosmic does if memory serves. I haven't run it since late alpha but it might be worth a try again.
I, too, hate aesthetics
How are "public shareable links" handled? Are you just saying links generate nicely when your version is exposed on the www or is there some kind of centralized back door for public access?
(just (try (guix (bro))):))
Personally I have never had an issue with the build quality. I think that's more of a reviewer gripe than a real world issue.
They occasionally have great sales too. I've seen prebuilds for $650 with previous gen boards. With the pro launch I wouldn't be surprised to see prices for the older models drop over the next month or two.