I was also unable to join your library's wifi today. Largely because I haven't been to any libraries today.
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Coincidence?
Quite possibly.
Sorry for your futile day. Seems your phones data, 4G or 5G, should have enabled your needs...
it's possible they have downloading apps over a cellular connection turned off, though if you initiate the download, there should be a way to force it. you can also always access the actual bank website via a browser.
A policy established because most libraries are by address region for membership, based on tax funding probably. If you moved out of town and have an address out of jurisdiction you can't use their services. If their policy is picture ID with current address then as stupid as that situation is +1 for the clerk following privacy protocol.
Most libraries do not do that. Yours might. Not most of them though. You just use the wifi password they provide.
Apparently theirs does too. ;)
Yup
+1 for following protocol? 🤡
A person's day was wasted after they couldn't access a public service, which sounds bad, but I guess on the bright side at least a Rule was enforced against them.
All this for wifi access for a few minutes. Must enforce The Rule to the letter, can't lapse for a moment and make a decision as a human being.
but I guess on the bright side at least a Rule was enforced against them.
If we killed all rules at the first exception, a woodpecker would destroy civilization.
You ... do get that rules don't spring into being without a reason, right? And that the people drafting them can be fallible? And that mere clerks who like to keep their jobs aren't going to risk it even if the outcome DOES help a random stranger who may or may not also be potentially homeless and foot-insecure after breaking policy?
Yourself may be only a class-4 climb . You can do it without ropes. Get all the way over yourself.
I agree that the WiFi should be free, but giving out any info without full proof of ID is how social engineering of ID theft happens
You missed the entire point, the reality of the situation is that nobody "was social engineering of ID theft" - a person wanted to use wifi for a few minutes.
It takes nothing to act like a human being and share a wifi password. Instead here we are with you celebrating an automaton for blindly following rules and having no flexibility, because at least this guy wasn't able to "steal his own identity".
"Sure someone's day was wasted, which could have been changed incredibly easily, but really what's most important is blind adherence to The Rules."
I was only explaining why they did it, it is for privacy and services. The fact that free WiFi is not everywhere is stupid. Seems you missed the point.
(if it was possible to do this over my unlimited 5G connection, the way to do this wasn’t apparent)
There's two options when that message pops up. One is to continue by using your cell data.
What kind of phone? There are options to allow downloads/updates over cellular, but they are sometimes a little buried in the settings.
In 15 years of using an Android phone, I've never been prevented from downloading an app over my data plan.
It won't prevent you outright, but if you have Settings > Network preferences > App download preference set to "Over Wi-Fi only", it'll make you do an extra confirmation step when queuing up a download/update to do it over mobile data.
If it's an update, you have to go to the individual app's listing, there's no readily available option from the overall "my apps" view (as far as I know) so it can definitely look like there's no way to force it