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Re:Give in to Procrastination and Stop Prefetching (2013) [pdf] by Jedd on Sunday July 23, 2017 @06:10AM (#14831604)
This may be a regional thing, or your friends skew towards non-normal. Almost everyone I know understands tethering, and is comfortable using it. I'm in Sydney, Australia, where free wifi hotspots are perhaps less common than your part of the world, the people I know are not (to my knowledge) abnormal, mobile data services are typically fast, but costs are also quite high.

It is a source of some frustration that devices connected to a tether will assume 'wifi therefore unmetered' and do all the non-time-critical stuff (such as application updates) that you'd really rather that they do on a genuinely unmetered wifi access point (eg. home cable or ADSL) later on.

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Re:Give in to Procrastination and Stop Prefetching (2013) [pdf] by SingletonIface on Sunday July 23, 2017 @07:05AM (#14831722)
Same here. I've talked with multiple untechnical people who have managed to tether their iPads to their iPhones without problems.
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Re:Give in to Procrastination and Stop Prefetching (2013) [pdf] by isostatic on Sunday July 23, 2017 @08:16AM (#14831916)
Plug in your phone to your laptop and it works, no need to fiddle with wifi.
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Re:Give in to Procrastination and Stop Prefetching (2013) [pdf] by Jedd on Sunday July 23, 2017 @11:23AM (#14832639)
You're replying to someone talking about tethering their tablet onto their phone by wifi access point ... and suggesting they plug their phone into their computer.

I have experimented - in both Debian and Windows 7 - using plugged-in / USB connectivity, but a) it's a bit spotty, b) it means I need a cable connection and that's often not ideal when on the go, c) it doesn't (as noted) work with tablets, and d) it doesn't solve the underlying issue of slave devices thinking they have non-mobile(3g,4g,lte,etc) network connectivity and sucking down lots of data.

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