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Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!
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I'm still slowly moving towards a Linux phone. That I can install whatever on, of course.
Maybe even eInk screen. Just that currently there's nothing with eSIM as well.
Is eSIM really the dealbreaker of all things?
For me it is yeah. It's really convenient when traveling.
We were in Malaysia and Brunei last year and honestly dual sim on my phone worked way better than eSIM on my mum's iPhone. No issues whatsoever.
I never claimed it worked better or worse. I'm saying my experience is good though. And the hassle is much less.
Can also come to another country prepared. I don't have to be looking, swapping. It just works.
I mean I guess. We came prepared and the experience was still bad so I really don't see the point of wSIM to be completely honest.
But if it works for you I can see how that might discourage you from picking certain phones.
I may simply have had a good run. But I do recall negative experience from the last, when I've used local SIMs. Ive been constantly harassed in some countries by their operators sending me ads all the time. Couldn't be stopped.
No such issues currently with 2 eSIM providers that I use regularly.
Hey, could you expand on why you prefer eSIMs? I've seen this idea in many places but couldn't find any reasons to prefer eSIMs over physical.
Very convenient for travel.
It's not that hard to swap a sim.
I never said it's hard. It's much more convenient. Can also come to another country prepared. I don't have to be looking, swapping. It just works.
Good luck, corporations and governments will make even that increasingly hard with essential apps requiring tampering attestations from the big vendors, so you may need two devices.
I don't know, sometimes there's a flash of bright light at the end of the tunnel
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Pixel-10-Google-DTs