Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret

• LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Speaking of Lineage…

  I wonder, how long will it be before you’re not “allowed” to install esims on phones with custom firmware?

  Either due to the esim application not installing/running on modified firmware, or the phone will just not allow it.

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  • Wigglesworth@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If that stops Lineage from being practical on that phone, then fuck that phone in particular.

    If eventually, that is every phone, then grab a hotspot and get tethering.

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    • LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We are well on our way. The EU is holding the manufacturer liable if a cellphone radio is “modded”, thus manufacturers are blocking the ability to unlock bootloaders.

      If eventually, that is every phone, then grab a hotspot and get tethering.

      I did have a chuckle at the thought of having a cellphone for your (modded) cellphone… but then I thought about it: “meh, yeah… it’s not a bad idea. I’d do it.”

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    • sarmale@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well then goal achieved, custom roms will be even harder to use, and from when I’ve seen I’ve got every reason to belive that every phone will get to that point.

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• mjr@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In most countries, getting a phone in a store is something done only by people happy to pay lots extra for a little human help, surely? The average user now signs up online and gets a phone in the mailbox.

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  • Wigglesworth@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If I asked my mom for her SIM card, she’d ask for her purse so she could attempt to find a credit card that doesn’t exist.

    She has no idea how a phone works in any capacity. I’m not being insulting about it, I am informing you of blatant and honest truth.

    My cousins, people my age are a hard maybe, I know two family members who went in-store recently. They treat their phones like cars. They use them and that’s as deep as it goes.

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    • mjr@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s not so informative without any idea of your age and thereby the ages of your examples.

      Many of them could still follow the assembly/card insertion instruction sheet with pictures that comes in the mail from the phone company, even without knowing which part is called a SIM.

      And maybe your area’s phone stores aren’t as notorious for overcharging as the UK’s.

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      • Wigglesworth@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m not teaching a class, here, bud. If you need me to tell you that running LineageOS is somehow a skill equivalent to walking into a store, then we have some serious cultural differences between the US and EU regarding average luddite phone ownership.

        The stores don’t charge for helping you, no. It’s the same cost for service instore as out, at least in my experience. For all I know Tmobile started charging ‘install fees’ for putting sim cards in.

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