I recently moved, and my new place has a relatively small footprint. (Yes, I moved during the COVID-19 pandemic. And yes, it was crazy.) I quickly realizied that was going to need a wireless router of some sort, or more formally, a wireless access point (WAP). Using my Ubuntu laptop's "wireless hotspot" capability was a nice temporary solution, but it had a few serious drawbacks: The wireless internet goes out whenever I would travel with the laptop, The laptop had to be close to the modem, so that it could be plugged into ethernet, making my laptop not even portable within the appartment, The SSID was my laptop's hostname, The WPA password would be set to a random string whenever the hotspot was started, and so Whenever I moved my laptop I would also need to reset the credentials on all of my wireless devices! Additionally, some of my coworkers are Nix true believers. While I had read the NixOS pamphlets, and listened politely when the faithful came knocking on my door at inconvenient times, I had never walked the path of functional Linux enlightenment myself.