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That show's first episode was so slow and boring that I couldn't even finish it, sadly.

The time-travel visual novel and anime Steins;Gate uses this multiverse premise, yeah.

That's how I interpreted it, yeah.

Hazelight Studios, and all of their fans, would like to have a word with anon.

Oops, maybe I'm thinking of something else or mis-remembered; my bad!

Oh yeah, I had tried PDA, too. I can't remember why, but I think because it worked identically to TetherFi, I returned to TF probably because it's open-source. (But with my old phone's hotspot feature getting miscategorized as normal mobile data usage, I just treat a second phone as a hotspot, haha—and not as primary due to its inferior stats as an older, budget phone, ironically enough.)

Thanks!

Okay, well, that's fine, and I didn't even think it was a personal attack, but the beef I had with your initial comment:

Are you confusing wifi with internet? Wifi is free. It costs nothing. Internet is a different story. You can have wifi without internet, and you can have internet without wifi. They are not the same thing.

... was that you said what not to say, but not what to say instead. So all I can deduce is that you mean for people to say "access to the Internet by means of mobile data instead of Wi-Fi"; is that right?

There, I edited the post title, haha. For what it's worth, I don't think these other Lemmy users should be putting you down to this extent, either.

Haha, is it TetherFi? TetherFi can do this masking, but it doesn't (or at least didn't) allow connectivity with certain programs that use UDP, like Telegram Desktop, Unigram, and Signal Desktop, which was kind of a pain for me since Signal has no web interface.

My current hotspot-limit bypass method actually just involves an old Android phone that happens to somehow not get picked up by US Mobile's hotspot-checking; I found this out purely by accident, which is why I went with an annual plan with them, haha. By the way, I used to use T-Mobile and it also cut out, but US Mobile is a supercarrier that has SIMs with all satellite networks; my connection is nearly flawless on Dark Star, which is their internal name for the AT&T network. Perhaps you might like to consider that in the future!

Oh, yeah, running multiple public sites could definitely present a challenge. This may not be doable, then...

Nice strategies. I used to use EasyTether when it had a free plan. For some time I more recently used TetherFi as it's free and open-source. I generally prefer FOSS nowadays even if it presents a greater hassle.

I no longer torrent because I don't want to catch malware or get activity warnings, and I want to try to do things legally. That is where the library, Hoopla Digital, Libby, and Kanopy come in. I've also moved quite a bit to FOSS. The most illegal I'll typically go is /c/FullMoviesOnYouTube haha. Even then, I try to not do that much and just use NewPipe to download content.

I'm assuming modern games are too slow to download over a hotspot.

It depends on your throttle speed; typically >1 GB would be painful, but actually playing online is surprisingly doable for efficient games. I even played Hazelight Studios' Split Fiction with a friend through a phone hotspot with no problem even in the throttled speed!

Immich may be new to me, or I forgot about it... Thanks for sharing.