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I've never used the cellular stuff in my laptops because it's easy enough to use my phone's connection. No need to pay for two connections.
by tmccrary55 5y ago
I've never used the cellular stuff in my laptops because it's easy enough to use my phone's connection.
No need to pay for two connections.
- petschge 5y agoEnough providers in Europe are willing to sell you a second SIM card for a one time fee ($5 to $15) that shares the data budget with the sim card in your phone. Only trick is to configure which of the two SIM cards gets SMS for your number. (Yes you can pick the one in your laptop and yes you can pull the SMS from the cellular modem using AT commands. But it get's annoying after a about a day of nerd glee.)
- Lammy 5y agoIt's really nice to only have to worry about one battery, and the physically-larger size of the device gives way more wiggle room to play with Antenna Diversity. I have this setup myself and am not trying to be a luddite: https://i.imgur.com/rUKf33K.png https://i.imgur.com/rUKf33K.png All the replies are missing my point though since this is currently a niche feature that will eventually be standard for everyone, everywhere. General-purpose computing loses the expectation of spatial privacy, and an individual opting out will just draw the Eye Of Providence's gaze toward them, like how using Tor or reading LKM.net puts you on a list today.