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. (@[email protected] 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.
I was using it two decades ago.
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/
Longer than that. I used to root phones and this was a major feature people wanted once rooted. It was a free option with no limits when rooted but carriers wanted to charge extra and set data limits.
I was doing this around 2010 on the HTC Evo 4G (WiMax).
Ah, the HTC Evo 4G. The GOAT.
That is definitely one of my favorite phones I’ve ever owned. I loaded so many custom ROMs on it and loved the built in kickstand.
Back when HTC was at their peak.
I wanted that 3D successor so bad. My cousin broke her Evo 4G and they gave her the 3D as a replacement so I tried the same but ended up getting another Evo 4G lol