It’s not about improving a connection, but making your phone’s network connection available to other devices. USB tethering creates a network device at /dev/usb... that behaves like an any ordinary network device, allowing you to create a connection using it. Wi-Fi tethering creates a hotspot similar to what your router at home does.
So now you can’t use USB hotspots on Linux? Yea mainstream has gone pretty evil then tbh. They didn’t even stop at the previous drama.
There’s no such thing as USB hotspots, that’s a term for WiFi. Also you can still use the NMC protocol if your Android version is recent enough. Just not RNDIS anymore. It’s an insecure Microsoft protocol, though this probably wouldn’t have mattered for a lot of people.
There’s no such thing as USB hotspots
That was its name on my old Sony phone though.
Also you can still use the NMC protocol if your Android version is recent enough.
Yea but it’s not a justification.
It’s an insecure Microsoft protocol, though this probably wouldn’t have mattered for a lot of people.
That’s why a DE warning would be enough. Linux is just making terrible decisions recently. I guess it’ll continue until major maintainer changes take place and that won’t happen without life losses because nobody is going to leave the project so we might lose many of the Linux’s benefits in a few years imo.
