Is there any way of setting the Current Location on a profile from either desktop web or mobile web. Please note, this is not from Android or iOS. And also note that I have all location displays set to sharing and public in Settings.
I can set "Lives in" by editing "Places lived" in the profile about edit pages, but I can't set current location. I used to be able to fool G+ into doing this by using the mobile web interface and using "Checkin". This required changing the User Agent to a mobile web browser. But although I can still do that, it no longer updates my profile from "Lives in" to "Currently in".
And what is the point of "Checkin"?
as for checkin, I don't know, perhaps it's more relevant to the page/business you checkin to, tho you can see who else checked in on the page too.
This is also relevant for Chromebooks. Since they are lightweight portable devices but they use the Chrome browser interface to G+. AFAIK, they suffer the same problem of being unable to set profile location.