yes you heard right, I recently find out that one can use an Android feature called “USB tethering” to get internet through an Android device. which is really cool since now you don’t have to worry about your wifi card not working in linux since you can just use your old Android device as wifi access point and have internet. not only it’s supported in Linux but it’s also supported in BSD world too. this can enable people in trying out distros like Guix, Parabola etc which doesn’t provide non-free firmware.
just wanted to share this amazing feature I didn’t know :)
Hasn’t this been available for at least a decade? It’s always been there.
“Always” is a long time on the internet, until it isn’t.
What matters is to celebrate the now. Today’s ten thousand. (@jbk@discuss.tchncs.de already linked it for me).
Bit of a strange post, but hey, OP learned a cool thing today. I use my Android when my home internet shits the bed. Super slow, but it works well enough.
Yep, the feature was introduced in Froyo*, but there were third party apps that enabled the functionality even before that. It’s how I got through college.
https://xkcd.com/1053/
I was using it two decades ago.