some purple flowers I never learned the name of the whole time I grew up there
Probably chicory (which is more of a lavender color) or creeping charlie. I guess you could steep the roots and see if it tastes like camp coffee.
Egads... with 15% sales tax the streets must be paved with gold.
Anyway, the method you teach is something I actually learned in grade school (I guess fourth grade) from my vice principal, of all people. He was sitting in the class and suggested it along with the "standard" method of "x + %x" that the teacher was using. The handful of kids who had trouble grokking it (or were just annoyed by the extra step) got it right there.
Claim: the routing and security features on the edge devices your ISP provides as CPE are not sufficient
Claim: You want the ability to reset the shitty CPE your ISP gives you without losing LAN connectivity
Claim: Specific purpose devices are often better suited to their tasks than all-in-one devices
Solution: Treat your ISP-supplied CPE as a dumb device. Put a smarter device behind it that does routing, segmentation, translation, dhcp, etc, the way you want those things done.
Ideally, do PPPoE or something from the smarter device across the CPE, because CPE firmware is so often just terrible, but if not, double-NAT is often fine.
Critically, make your wifi APs a separate function both from your core home router and your edge device.
For a trivial amount of money, you can keep buying Ubiquiti APs and place them all over your property, as needed, and get an arbitrarily high level of speed and coverage. The configuration is completely painless, and this setup is completely independent of your edge device and edge connectivity.
OK, you don't know what my level of driving skill is. I know how to operate a stick, although I'd be pretty rusty by now. I think the last vehicle I operated with a stick had it on the column.
Second, IF MY CAR DOESN'T HAVE A STICK I DON'T NEED TO BE ABLE TO DRIVE WITH A STICK. Example: the ham licensing. Morse code skills are no longer vital, so you don't need to demonstrate morse code proficiency for the novice license. If I never touch a manual transmission, why should I learn to use one? I mean, you're demanding people obtain a car with a stick so they can pass a driving test on it when they may never use one. Maybe I should make you learn in the 1971 Ford pickup that had it on the column-- just in case you had to drive one.
It's really not that hard to avoid using a stick. Maybe you're some sort of automotive purist who believes we need to have manual transmissions to "really drive". People in the past protested when we got power steering, independent suspension, and OBD too.
Knowing the task well enough to automate it, and knowing how to automate tasks at all, is a skill that not everyone has. It's like the anecdote about Charles Steinmetz, who charged Ford $1 for a chalk mark on the proper access panel of a faulty generator and $9,999 for knowing where to put it.
"I've seen it. It's rubbish." -- Marvin the Paranoid Android