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Re:Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers by kijiki on Monday November 21, 2016 @10:07PM (#13011311)
Android and Linux is (shockingly) also automatic. I plugged my phone into my laptop because I didn't want to run down the phone battery while using it as a mobile wifi hotspot. I was shocked to notice that I had Internet access on the laptop before I even enabled the mobile hotspot functionality.

It turns out that when I plugged the phone into the laptop USB, it showed up as a USB ethernet device, which NetworkManager then happily auto-configured.

So clearly 2016 is the year of the Linux laptop.

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Re:Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers by growse on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @05:44AM (#13013160)
This has been true for a while now. I remember being equally surprised when this worked on Ubuntu in (I think) 2013.
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