Is there any way to stop this?

I'm resisting esims for as long as possible.

Nanosims provide this key feature where I can put my sim in a cheap 20$ flip phone when I go snowboarding or kayaking and don't want to risk breaking my smart phone.

This also is a convenient way to get Google, and tech, and social media noise away from me for a short time.

I also noticed there is a complete lack of esim capable dumb phones. This has me starting to question the motivation behind esim.

Certain wireless providers ban phones they don't like anyway, even if it's unlocked. It's depressing.

Always buy unlocked. I transferred carriers on the bus one afternoon and by the time I was home, it was done and I had already deactivated my old account. Kept my mincer and everything. It was even simpler because I have a dual eSIM. Once it was done, I deleted my original eSIM. There’s also the big advantage of using dual eSIM when traveling internationally as you can just activate foreign networks immediately.

But even if you don’t buy unlocked, the carrier has to unlock your phone if you’ve been with them for like 60 days or something according to the FCC. My friend couldn’t get his phone unlocked so he threatened to report them to the FCC and BOOM. Unlocked remotely. It was crazy that it had to go that far.

what the fuck? I stopped on "no jack for you sir" phase, no doubt I am not going for another smartpone when the current one dies out

I like eSIMs now because I can get a different account every month, data only and then I use jmp.net to have SMS and voice call services with a permanent number for when I need that. Its cheaper then anything else and more private too.

I don't know who you've been getting your esims from but it I've used simjuno and nadanada both are pretty easy to setup.

The first phone I got with an e-SIM crashed during startup. After it cooked my old SIM card. It was so arduous to get fixed. So fucking stupid. This tech isn’t ready for prime time if it can’t handle the phone crashing at specific points.

Pretty much done on most smartphones.

Installing GrapheneOS on my pixel was easy, but I had to go through hoops to get my old Motorola G7 running iirc PostmarketOS (now called Nura).

Had to install some program on my desktop so I could ask my connected phone for a series of unique character strings through the terminal, then enter them in a specific order on Motorola's website where they check if your phone is applicable for unlocking bootloading. It says no, so I look around and find a list of carrier codes that indicate whether or not it should be, and mine should. I ended up finding some forum posts from years ago talking about how the website is wrong and lies to you, and that if you change the url that it gives for applicable devices to include your phone's strings then it'll correctly identify the device as applicable for bootloader unlocking. Finally got then to send me an email with the unique code for my phone, and I was able to follow the instructions to install PostmarketOS.

and then hardware gated LLMs forcing you to use goverment approved AI in your phone to do everything

what do you mean next? it's already happening lol

That's still a hard requirement for me, but I don't mind using older "tech".

I totally get it but I have been pretty happy with the earbuds to be honest. I know that's a bit of a hot take but I always wanted wireless in the past and I use my jabra's on a daily basis. Still, I dont like the removal of useful features, we could easily have wireless earbuds and still have headphone jacks for fuck sake

Damn, that's so viable. don't give em ideas

And pay $3 to subscribe to the on-screen keyboard as an added function.

(Fuck, I'm sorry I'm giving them ideas)

I recently lost the voice assistant on my phone because it got replaced by Google's stupid AI shit, which I refuse to use. Now the old assistant, which shipped with this phone and which it has used for the years that I've had it, is "unsupported by this device." Don't even need to buy a new phone for them to take features away from you.

they took your job(2027)

when the screen is off

Well that's your problem. You're supposed to be engaging with content 24/7. The screen turning off at all sounds like a user error.

I used to love my multicoloured LED on my Nexus 4. I could configure it to flash in a different colour depending upon which app the notification was coming from.

Starting 2019 most smartphones vendors have stopped adding the notification LED which could be explained by the advent of AOD and a drive for smaller bezels.[6][7]

An always-on display (AOD) is a computer-device feed feature mostly found on smartphones that has the device display show limited information while the phone is asleep. I

both from Wikipedia. tl;dr. modem screens can be switched on partially and do so efficient enough to replace LEDs. if and how they do depends on the os

Cheap solution, whatever your charger port is, they make that to 3.5mm

I loved my Xperia M and its huge ahh LED

And it will still be out of warranty for liquid damage, while a Casio with user replaceable battery is 100m resist.

I want a sidekick lx with a touch screen, a modern processor, and an unlocked bootloader

Xiaomi phones have it. It's great when you can't find your remote control down the back of the sofa.

Press for volume up, double press for volume down.

Double presses. Up up. No... Double press again. Down. Good. Double press again, up up.

Whoa, got an article or something? I’d love to read more about this

Superglue.

Better yet not to buy such a phone in the first place.

My LG G8 all but got "upgraded" to this, it was a dedicated Google assistant button, right next to the power switch, and the assistant became AI. Thankfully, while you were unable to remap the button you could still just turn it off, I did that pre AI because I just never used assistant and kept accidentally hitting the button. There are a lot of things I miss about that phone, the AI button is not one of them.