XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   XPost: alt.os.linux   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   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.   
      
      
      
      
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   Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa   
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