Comment by 🐙 norayr
Re: "Talk me in our out of this: I am struggling to not pick up…"
@gritty what captive portals? can you describe the issue?
Jan 24 · 3 months ago
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btw for hotels my friend bought ethernet to usb type-c adapter, connects it to his phone, gets internet via ethernet and shares wia wifi.
i am not sure why he needed it, i remember he said why, but not something he cant do with linux.
🍀 gritty [OP] · Jan 25 at 05:46:
some captive portals work, some don't. I tried most of the tricks I could find online. I agree you can do anything in Linux but I don't know the exact problem so it's hard to find a solution. I'm sure it's a DNS setting buried somewhere in Debian but I haven't found it yet, and I'm not always in the mood to figure out how to get Linux to do something that's seamless in other OSs. sometimes it's fun, sometimes not.
i have an idea.
you can get usb wifi dongle, then your windows vm willl see it.
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Talk me in our out of this: I am struggling to not pick up a cheap used laptop after the discussion about it on [gemini link] This Thread ...but not for Linux. I am happy with my Tuxedo InfinityBook S 15 and have no real need for a new laptop, but I find myself occasionally needing or wanting to use a Windows machine, either for logging into webmail for work without the hassle, or not dealing with wifi captive portals that refuse to work with linux despite hours of tinkering (my solution at...