Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo + wifi

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On 22/03/2021 13:17, Grant Edwards wrote:
> If you don't want to spend quite that much money, I'm a fan of
> Lenonovo Moto "G" series phones. You get a lot of phone for your money
> and very little "bloat". A few of the models used to be available as
> pure vanilla android, but I don't know if any of the current models
> are.

Agreed. I had a G5 (all the reviews said it was the lemon between the G4 
and the G6, but I liked it). It's now been replaced by a G8. The main 
thing I don't like is the stock android! It's changed between the 5 and 
8 - from Android 8.1 to 10. And afaik they're all close to stock.

The other thing is to look at your contract - I pay £5/month for 
unlimited minutes and texts, and 2GB data.

I don't know whether the wi-fi would be a good deal - my experience of 
free wi-fi is it assumes you're using a browser, so if you're using a 
mail client or whatever things tend to break ... And it's filtered, so a 
lot of sites I do (or did) visit get blocked ... Make sure the wifi is 
pure access without any of that sort of crap.

The phone itself should allow tethering no problem - that's what we use 
when we go away. And if tethering works and you get an unlimited data 
contract, then you've got all you need (that sort of contract is about 
£30, iirc).

Cheers,
Wol