XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   XPost: alt.os.linux   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2024-07-09 03:05, Daniel70 wrote:   
   > 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??   
      
   Probably.   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Yes. And?   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   OK. And?   
      
   Could you not get such a dongle for a Mac laptop. (Hint: I know you can).   
      
   >   
   > 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??   
      
   Definitely.   
      
   This alleged "tethering" was about whether or not a Mac can be used   
   without signing in with an AppleID.   
      
   I'm here to tell you, it most definitely can.   
      
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