XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11
XPost: alt.privacy
From: nuh-uh@nope.com
On 2024-07-09 20:15, Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jul 2024 20:05:20 +1000, Daniel70
> wrote:
>
>> Alan wrote on 9/7/24 3:50 am:
>>> On 2024-07-02 01:45, Daniel70 wrote:
>
>>> But that is no more and no less "tethered" than any other personal
>>> computer using any operating system.
>>
>> Sorry! Are we talking at different things??
>>
>> Currently, this Laptop uses its Wi-Fi to connect to a Box at the end of
>> my Landline Phone-line. If I were to take the Laptop to a Coffee-Bar,
>> the Wi-Fi would not work .... unless the Coffee-Bar offered Public Wi-Fi
>> .... but I'd have to obtain the Coffee-Bar Wi-Fi Password first.
>>
>> 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, we are talking about different things.
>
> We are talking about computers that are no longer computers, but are
> being turned into dumb terminals because they will not perform
> functions that a stand-alone computer normall performs, like saving a
> document, without being tethered, not merely to the Internet, but to a
> particular site on the internet owned by the vendor of the computer's
> operating system - like asn Apple computer not working unless it is
> linked to the Apple company's web site, or a Microsoft computer not
> working unless it is linked to the Microsoft company's web site.
There is no Apple computer or device made today that has that problem.
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