Or Evri, the brand formerly known as Hermes

I started noticing it about a year and a half ago…

True… Could be useful for CCNA lab perhaps?

This model is old enough that it’s pretty easy to find firmware online, and is not recieving updates anymore.

even when they are actually static

Are they often not ‘actually’ static? In what way?

It should be an anarcho-syndicalist commune where we take turns to be a sort of executive officer for the week

It seems to run as well as it did before, if not better. Ryzen 5 3600 / GTX 1660 / 32GB 3600Mhz.

Unfortunately I believe the usb has to be created from Windows…

Same as usual…

OpenLinux

Run a distro of linux which is less resource intensive than windows?