The Heir totally understands people getting mad at the utilities for not restoring their power properly, but he's observed that's partly because their access to the Internet also goes down with the power.  This strikes the Heir as a hallmark of a Type A Westernized society that's overly dependent on increasingly undependable things, and for which there's is no alternative.  You only have one choice, and if that choice goes wrong, well, sucks to be you, man.  That's the message the Heir's seeing coming from society in the aftermath of Isiasis, or whatever that storm's name is.  What is it, Isiaiaaisiaiaiasisisis?  It would also be nice for the weather service to not resort to storm names whose spelling is totally screwed up and doesn't follow standard English.  What's wrong with Joe, Jim or John?  So anyway, the Heir believes there should have been an affordable emergency provision for the commoners, rather than just for the Jeffrey Epstein Rich Person with tethering included on his $10,000 phone.  The Heir recently, even before the storm came about, thought about how online connections could be made more simple and more transparent.  People are advised to keep an emergency radio, which the Heir does, but no-one is advised on keeping an emergency Internet.  The Heir has pay-as-you-go on his phone, but he's receiving conflicting information as to whether that providor supports tethering or not.  He sees one person claiming that the providor *doesn't* support tethering, and then he finds an FAQ on the providor's site talking about how to enable tethering on a phone that supports it.  They need to say so themselves: either they support it or they don't.  But in any case, with the emergency radio, the Heir fantasizes the radio coming with Internet tethering support with the help of a dongle or a usb adapter that communicates with the nearest tower, and is automatically available with the phone you get from a pay-as-you-go company.  Or if they have to charge extra, like $15, maybe that extra is worth the purchase.  And if they feel they need to set aside a separate but reasonably priced charge category for x number of hours or minutes you accessed the service via their tethering dongle you'd place into your emergency radio, like on the side or on the back.  And then the Heir believes that all you need to do is just turn on your radio, and the dongle flashes 3 times and then goes consistently green to indicate readiness.  And then the dongle creates a wifi spot, and the dongle blinks when you use that wifi spot kind of like how your cable modem/router does.  The Heir just doesn't see why that needs to be complicated.  What are they afraid of?  That somehow online tethering via emergency radio will somehow *replace* mainstream broadband coming from a telco or a cable company?  The Heir doesn't believe it has to, because broadband on a flat fee would still be a better bargain than to use radio tethering full time.  The Heir thinks back to the crystal radio villagers in Papua New Guinea (somewhere in the rural provinces, between a small town and an actual indigenous village), and many of the rural peoples have radios, so that's the kind of radio that can support online tethering in some form.  The Heir has a billion ideas about a more mindful/simplistic/survivalistic approach, and what he got me the Mentor to write about above is just him thinking aloud.  He's not totally signed off on emergency radio online cellular tethering.  There may be a better way to do it.  Right now in our overly modern Westernized society, it's either a trillion mbps of broadband or just dead air.  That appears to be what Isiahahahsieieis revealed.