Even with the internet “available” you can get in chicken-egg scenarios like “the network card is not supported on the OS disc, and it won’t let me complete the OS installer so I can install the driver from external media later.”
Even Windows 10 got pretty testy about that in late releases.
I’ll say one word: WRT54G.
You put the hackers in control and otherwise mediocre hardware can become iconic and shape the future of your brand. (It’s funny that you now see the second-gen “looks like a low-poly WRT54G” routers in thrift shops due to wi-fi churn)
OTOH will it be harder with video, if every third party integration is demanding DRM blobs, than with RF which is justjust a federal offense if misused?
But the economy runs on vibes, and even if the prices aren’t higher, the loss of de-minimis has made “retail therapy” less appealing. Some foreign shops just gave up selling to Americans, and for those that do, people don’t want to buy some cheap item and worry that UPS is going to demand 50% more in tarrifs plus some outlandish processing fee.
Yeah, buy American, but not all products are sold domestically.
But it does do the force-a-Microsoft-account thing that doesn’t work without a network.