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It's the friction of the thing. Phones have a trash UI, I can just pull my laptop out of my bag and shitpost on hacker news whenever I want at 90wpm, you think
by thot_experiment 3y ago
It's the friction of the thing. Phones have a trash UI, I can just pull my laptop out of my bag and shitpost on hacker news whenever I want at 90wpm, you think I'm going to bother tethering just to reply to a HN comment on Caltrain? The UX of an always on the internet laptop is unparalleled.
- lxgr 3y agoOn macOS, I can activate tethering pretty much instantaneously directly from my laptop, but the battery drain is still a concern.
- JohnBooty 3y agosure, but I mean, we're just shifting the battery drain to the laptop now the laptop has a bigger battery, obviously. but i'm trying to understand the Venn diagram of people who are willing to tote around a laptop, but not an external hotspot or extra battery pack to offset the extra battery drain on their phone, and need to do this for hours at a time with no AC power available, and are also willing to pay $20 a month for it or whatever the carrier charges all I can really come up with is "businesses who issue laptops that need to stay connected to the internet and it's not feasible to expect employees to use their phones as hotspots" and maybe "people doing mission critical shit who want the laptop cellular modem as a backup in case something happens to their phone or whatever" and of course people who won't blink at $20/month
- lxgr 3y ago> we're just shifting the battery drain to the laptop now I'm pretty sure that a significant part of the drain is having to run a Wi-Fi hotspot. Access points use more energy than stations (clients). > and of course people who won't blink at $20/month There's no extra charge for an additional SIM card with some phone plans.