It’s my goddamn motherfucking mobile data and MY PHONE. I should be able to use it however I want. My wifi went down because the greedy, cunt-faced shitbags at Comcast stole taxpayer subsidies to enrich themselves instead of actually providing the service we’re paying for. I tried to switch to a mobile hotspot and my phone refuses to open one. Everyone responsible for this shit should be fed to alligators locked away in a fucking gulag. We have no rights and live in a corporate plutocracy.
The “pay for mobile hotspot” is more of a carrier thing than an Android thing. iPhone users suffer as well.
On Android you can at least use apps like SecureTether. It’s a bit clunky, but it works on my Pixel 6a.
What I don’t appreciate is Google completely turning off the ability to create a hotspot WiFi network even if your mobile data is off. In college we would connect multiple laptops to a phone hotspot and play LAN games.
Typical Google shenanigans
*More of an American thing ftfy
I can’t hear you over my strict antimonopoly regulations
It was a thing in the UK for a bit as well, but they seem to have backed down in the last few years.
I used to have to pay extra for hotspot data until the last few years in the UK too.
You guys are really screwed importing all US shit f*ckury culture. and now you are even double screwed after brexit.
Meh, it’s not as bad as some people will have you believe, in the same way I don’t believe the US is probably as bad as all the news coming out makes it look.
How about tipping, I hear its making its way to becoming as common place as in the US.
Not really, most people in the UK used to tip at a sit down place anyway providing the service wasn’t naff. There’s no “acceptable percentage” like the US though and restaurants still have to pay at least minimum wage so tips are an actual bonus not just shoring up underpaid staff. I noticed a lot of takeaways charge a delivery fee post Covid since people don’t have cash anymore so the drivers were probably not getting the tips they used to. Never seen it for fast food and the like yet though.
Don’t you just go into your normal android settings, go to connections, mobile internet hotspot, toggle it on? When are you ever prompted to pay for anything? Why do you need a separate app??
In the US, the service provider can control if that feature is available. If you try to enable it it will ping the service provider to see if you paid for that ability. This is done because the data usage goes way up when you start using hotspot.