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I have that. It sucks. It’s another thing to charge, another thing to lose, and so on. Also it isn’t connected to the laptop so when you open the laptop you al
by CPLX 3y ago
I have that. It sucks.
It’s another thing to charge, another thing to lose, and so on. Also it isn’t connected to the laptop so when you open the laptop you also have to turn it on, wait for it to connect, and so on. Then you have to turn it off when not using it or the battery will die.
Also it doesn’t actually do the thing I mentioned at all, which is serve as a graceful backup to whatever Wi-Fi the laptop is connected to.
As a user experience it’s awful.
And it’s such a common user experience. Like how many people are traveling and working from wherever on their MacBooks these days. It really is inexplicable.
- dredmorbius 3y agoThe other place where I've seen cellular modems is for WiFi routers such as the Turris Omnia, which can accept an optional LTE modem. See: <https://www.mybluelinux.com/installation-of-lte-modem-into-turris-omnia-router/ https://www.mybluelinux.com/installation-of-lte-modem-into-t...> Apple probably won't support this, but it seems to me the Framework laptop might. That ... doesn't seem to be the case presently but might be in future: <https://community.frame.work/t/5g-lte-expansion-card/1606 https://community.frame.work/t/5g-lte-expansion-card/1606> There are USB LTE modems as well, for as little as $20 US: <https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/verizon-4g-lte-usb-modem-uml295 https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/verizon-4g-lte-usb-modem-uml29...>