Ah yes lemme just shell out $50 dollars a month or more just so I can use my steam deck to play multiplayer games over the slow and spotty mobile network that exists where I live. That's a totally reasonable thing to do.

Or I can just continue to pay 15 bucks a month and use my steam deck offline while still getting decent enough service and enough data to do everything I'd actually be able to reliably do on a mobile network outside of a large city.

Mobile networks ain't reliable and not every plan permits the mobile hotspot feature to function. That was my entire point with that comment.

That when when your device is unlocked your carrier still gets to decide if that particular feature is even functional.

That assumes hotspot is included in your wireless plan, and it isn't included in a lot of the cheapest ones.

Won't be the case for much longer if the EU gets their way, I'm glad to say.

Yeah r/privacy was toxic towards n00bs back on reddit as well. Sorry you got blasted for asking a question.

That would be incredibly stupid to do that for the commerical real estate industry alone. The online retail industry alone is equal in size, and that doesn’t even take into the dozens of other similarly large industries that would become too risky to exist without TLS and other encryption schemes.

I think it’s significantly more likely that the effort is actually genuinely about muh terrorism/muh pedos than I about protecting landlords that are dwarfed by the industries this kinds crap would undermine.