What is the difference between cellular data being used on my phone and cellular data being used on my notebook? Data is data.

    • Fondots@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I don’t know the current state of things, it’s probably more than 10 years since I’ve bothered with rooting and custom rooms and such.

      But back then I remember my phone company tried to make me pay extra for tethering and there were a few tricks using root to get around it. I think there were a few apps out there that would work on the stock room that needed root, and I think it just worked out of the box with a custom ROM.

      IIRC, at that time, my carrier had disabled the tethering options in the phone settings, and to tether you had to use their pre-installed app. My memory may be fuzzy on that though.

    • Zikeji@programming.dev
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      7 months ago

      Yes and no. A custom kernel with a patch usually referred to as a “ttl fix” can, but a good amount of ROMs have that in their kernel by default.

    • CrayonRosary@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Probably, but all you really need is an app called EasyTether. I wrote a big comment about it on this post.