the fact that this is a widely accepted/encouraged practice is genuinely unhinged

mtlmtlmtlmtl 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why? Nothing wrong with running your network interface in a VM. There are reasons for doing so even if drivers aren't an issue. Qubes OS does this, for instance, for security reasons.

	▲	wolvoleo 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Windows also does. Almost everything is a VM in windows these days. It's just how things work these days. If you'd say "I run my VPN client in a docker container" it would raise a lot less eyebrows. Yet it's not very different, really. Though conceptually I'd frown at having to run Linux. I'd prefer upgrading the hardware to a supported chip.

▲

skydhash 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not really weird when some firmware are close to being full blown OS. An alpine VM can be run with 64 MB which is lower than a lot of software.

▲

fullstop 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I've used cellular modems which run Linux or ThreadX internally.

	▲	mlfreeman 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Weren't there iPhones that had wifi chips that ran Linux?

▲

Hasslequest 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

[dead]