XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   XPost: alt.os.linux   
   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   Alan wrote on 9/7/24 3:50 am:   
   > On 2024-07-02 01:45, Daniel70 wrote:   
   >> Alan wrote on 2/7/24 3:00 pm:   
   >>> On 2024-07-01 20:36, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >>>> On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 12:31:18 -0400, Larry Wolff   
   >>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>> On 6/30/2024 8:49 AM, Kees Nuyt wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>> You must be out of your mind to concern yourself with this   
   >>>>>>> kind of thing.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Bill, you must be out of your mind to quote all 245 lines of   
   >>>>>> Andrew's article to just add your 2 cents.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> It's a worthwhile privacy concern to think about which operating   
   >>>>> systems are designed to require logging into the maker's servers   
   >>>>> for most of the vital essential services that comprise the core   
   >>>>> of the operating system.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> It's not just a privacy concern.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The point about laptop computers is that they are *portable*. You   
   >>>> can take them to meetings at remote locations where there is no   
   >>>> internet access. You can take them to libraries and archives to do   
   >>>> research. You can use them (for a while) if the mains electricity   
   >>>> goes off.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Being tethered to the mothership means that portable computers   
   >>>> cease to be portable and are forced to be, well, tethered.   
   >>>   
   >>> Ummmm...   
   >>>   
   >>> I've had Mac laptops for more than 30 years.   
   >>>   
   >>> I've never been tethered.   
   >>>   
   >> .... except by the Wi-Fi or USB Dongle that you use to get your signal   
   >> out of your Mac laptops to where ever they are distend.   
   >>   
   >> Otherwise the signal would NEVER have left your Mac laptop.   
   >   
   > 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??   
   --   
   Daniel   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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