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Would've been real hard for me to not hang up the phone. And I'm not as tech literate as half the nerds on Lemmy, but I know enough to know when they're giving me wrong answers. Shit is frustrating.
Well it's not like Big They made it particularly clear with the naming scheme.
"Wi-Fi" is an entirely non-descriptive name, it's supposed to be "like Hi-Fi, but with a W for Wireless." It doesn't indicate what it does at all. The typical unwashed mass just wants to know what button to push in iOS to make it get on Instagram. Wi-Fi is synonymous with internet access in their minds; iPhones and iPads don't have Ethernet sockets, and they've got no use for local traffic because their Apple products are thousand dollar Tiktok appliances.
So yeah, "Wi-Fi" means "internet access" to more people than it means "IEEE 802.11"
technical terms mean what they mean rather than being defined by the average usage like average terms because without this we can't have useful discussions
It's wireless fireless, duhhhhh.