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My deGoogled phone finally arrived!! (Teracube 2s (DeGoogled w/ e/OS)) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Ripley_Tripley@lemmus.org to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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Ive been using google's services since 2017-2018, now its time to finally depart from that. I just got it in the mail yesterday and I'm already in love with it. So much lighter and easier to carry than my samsung galaxy. Gonna transfer everything over in a sim card, switch to Tmobile and ill be good to go. 😁

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[–] SalmonTractor@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

US Mobile is terrible. You can't even change your e-mail without contacting chat, and then they don't even always do it. Changing SIMs can result in their "migrating" you to another plan that costs more with no way back. Getting your port-out PIN, you again have to chat with their chat people. It's suuuuper-grifty. Plus you're putting an MVNO between you and your cellular services. US Mobile has had outages in the past where their customers lose cellular but the main carrier was fine because there wasn't a third party injected in the middle.

One will find USM has shills all over the web trying to plug their mediocre service when one could go to Visible, Cricket, or even the prepaids of the tier-1 carriers.

Yeah, they're such a pain I indeed wasted that many words describing why they should be avoided.