XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   XPost: alt.privacy   
   From: dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On Tue, 09 Jul 2024 06:05:20 -0400, Daniel70    
   wrote:   
      
   > Previously, I had a Dongle that I'd plug into a USB socket on this same   
   > Laptop and, as long as I was with-in 'sight' of a Telco Antenna, I could   
   > talk to the world.   
   >   
   > In either case, I considered that I WAS Tethered! Maybe not by a   
   > physical wire, but Tethered none the less.   
   >   
   > Are we talking at different things??   
      
   Yes. You are talking about connected to the internet. Alan was talking about   
   the   
   os using the internet to "phone home" to M$, Apple, or the linux distributor.   
      
      
   Regards, Dave Hodgins   
      
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