@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me @chjara@akko.wtf All high-speed links need termination, including twisted pairs, it's physics. The difference is just that silicons are cheap enough to make "switches everywhere" affordable, so now every link is point-to-point and terminations became a "private matter" for transceivers at both sides, instead of asking your local sysadmin to manage a big public terminator per bus.