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Fear will keep them in line

It depends whether you can buy one anonymously - you probably can't, I guess, as for what I know, providers tend to offer eSIM only with contracts and not prepaid options. Physical SIMs you can get on the street in many places, vending machines, eBay, wherever.

Tho there isn't really any reason why eSIMs couldn't be sold the same way, as it's just a QR code.

The other problem is that in order to move the eSIM from one phone to another, it needs to be deactivated on the first one, which requires an internet connection. That's more of a practical concern than one of privacy I guess.

I'm gonna pick your brain in a couple months.

If you want to contribute to someone else's code, you should familiarise yourself with their values or plans before writing code. Can't expect them to accept any contribution without question.

Otherwise, fork the project and make your own version.

If I wanted a charger with 4 ports I'd buy it. If I wanted a braided cable I'd buy it.

You really should try it. People don't know what they're missing until they use it.

I have the same experience with lots of pack-in products. One that comes to mind are camera (DSLR) neck straps. They're absolutely dreadful, and shiny advertisements to boot. At some point I tested a bunch of 3rd party ones and found how much better they are. Yet people kept acting like I'm the weird one for paying 20-50 $€£ for something that improves the experience so much.

Same thing here. If for nothing else, not including those crappy accessories just makes people think about the alternatives.

There's a reason why accessory brands even exist. OEMs actually rarely know how to do accessories well.

let's say a 0.5 to 1 meter

So FYI standard length is 1 metre, which tends to be a surprise to people when I tell them... 0.5m is super short for anything but a PC connection or powerbank. Again I suggest you try a good, soft, braided 2m cable if you charge using a power brick.

that can also do basic data transfer

What's "basic"? You know, with most phones you only get a USB2 cable (if it does data transfer at all), again showing how useful they are.

People rarely do data transfer via cable these days, and a really good USB3 cable doesn't cost 5 cents, so again to me it makes sense to just get one to your liking.

None ever does or has. Only boutique brands like Razer may give you a braided cable, but nobody ever gives you a cable longer than 1 metre, never mind a charger with more ports.

But let's say they do. Let's say they include a selection of 3 good cables, and a charger with 4 ports that supports all the competing protocols, and throw in wireless charger too. Well congrats, now every phone, tablet, watch, camera and speaker is 50 $€£ more expensive, comes in a box twice as large, and we're back to the problem of having too many useless chargers that stay in boxes.

Btw I use magnetic cables anyway. So whatever they include cable-wise is useless waste for me.

What the fuck. This is getting reality stupid. Not even an announcement that I can see.

This Fediverse thing is turning out reaaaaaally well.

And all of that sucks, except not including a charger.

It's complaining about the one thing that actually makes sense, and letting everything else slide.

Pack-in chargers and cables always suck. I don't get how people use them, especially those cheap rubber 1m long cables. Utterly useless.

And chargers with one port? Who shells out 1 grand for a phone and has just one device? You can get an excellent charger with 4 ports and support for all the stupid proprietary protocols for like 30 bucks. Why would I use a pack-in one?

Complain about lack of replaceable batteries, headphone jacks, expandable storage, complain about Google's monopoly and data harvesting in phones, not that they don't give you some useless extra crap.

Why not just buy a bulletproof charger with multiple ports that will last a decade for all your devices, and good, 2m or longer, braided cables?

Or do you really only have one device and one charger for it, with no backups, nothing for travel?

Okay

Politics is an example of when something is so fucked up and tragic, you can do nothing but laugh.

Send it back and get a Pixel.

Wasn't the 5 series supposed to be mid range, and the 1 and 3 series be high-end?

Is one grand midrange today? Wtf.

Yea people should stop complaining about this. Cables that come with phones are always crappy anyway, and I prefer chargers that have multiple outputs.

It's bizarre how reviewers very quickly gave up on complaining that (other) phones don't have headphone jacks or expandable storage, but keep hanging on the no charger thing.

It's like complaining the phone doesn't come with a SIM or electricity. Some stuff you just provide yourself.

It was set to stop working after 31st Aug

Ed: typo

Yes Izzy only hosts open source apps, but their policies are more lax than of F-Droid. So they can include proprietary libraries or stuff in forks that the original devs don't want. Also Izzy takes the binaries directly, so they can't guarantee their reproducibility like F-Droid does.

Btw other repos don't need to even be for open source apps. Total Commander for Android has their own F-Droid repo too (although it doesn't work atm).

Most Wednesdays we have a theme day and most weekends we have a caption contest, that's all

I just want it shortened to a non-clickbait headline. And then a version shortened to about a 1/4rd length, as that's usually the ratio of information to fluff in written articles.

Strange New Worlds and Ahsoka.

Man, reminding me of TTSCC... Now I wanna watch it again, again