Comment by myself248
8 months ago
Adhoc was the coolest thing, I still miss it. One day in 2002-ish, I was showing a friend some photos on my laptop and noticed a crowd had gathered over my shoulder, and there simply wasn't enough room for everyone to get a good view.
"Fire up adhoc, set it to this ssid, vnc to this address"
Two minutes later, my photos are on five screens around the coffee shop and everyone can see.
Adhoc just worked, and that's more than I can say for a great many things before or since.
My windows laptop supports creating a wifi hotspot. It even allows sharing my upstream wifi internet connection over the hotspot, which I wasn't aware was a thing until recently (my Pixel 7 also supports this). I'm sure you could do the same thing with Linux with the right incantation. Not as cool as adhoc but it's also a paradigm people are very familiar with these days.
What stops you from using it today? A wiki claims it is just 3 commands and IP configuration:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ad-hoc_networking#Manual_me...
Last time I tried it I got some error that made me think the driver didn't support it, but it's been a while. I wonder if my new card is any better...
i think this is most important post of all
people hail apple for what is essentially 3 line script XD
i do understand that it does much more. but 3 line script is closer to what it really is, then what people think it is.
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