The WiFi service requires no password but once you connect you are forced through a login portal that requires your mobile phone number which it then verifies via SMS.
I imagine a lot of people with GSM service likely have a data plan, thus don’t need WiFi. People on limited/prepaid plans would benefit from WiFi. But non-GSM users are discriminated against and it seems like a human rights violation. Universal Declaration of Human Rights article 21 ¶2: “Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.” I wonder if it might be a #GDPR violation as well since it would seem to undermine the data minimization principle.
The library has PCs but then of course those PCs are limited to the apps the library installs.
Thanks for the tip. I avoid lemmy.world as much as possible (Cloudflare & exclusive; centralized both because of CF and simply due to sheer size). The French one might be interesting. Would I get away with machine-translated posts there?
It should work, in any case people there speak a decent English :)