No SIM wouldn’t really make any difference, all (US) phones must be able to make a 911 call even if they aren’t currently in service (that’s what SOS in the signal meter means too, you aren’t roaming or don’t have roaming turned on but the rival carrier’s tower that you are hitting legally must allow you to make a 911 call). Just because your carrier doesn’t support those frequencies anymore doesn’t mean there aren’t other carriers that do or that the mobile cell tower spoofers won’t still scan for those frequencies. If you trust that it will stay in airplane mode and that the custom rom’s Bluetooth stack is locked down enough to not ping any Find My devices or similar then maybe but standalone Meshtastic device sounds like the best bet to me, or maybe something like IP over HAM radio. Maybe it’s time to dust off the Cybiko!!!
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Don’t take your phone to a protest. Even if you turn it off or in airplane mode. iPhones ping the Find My network even when turned off for instance and Google has their own version of the same thing. Feature phones, insofar as they still exist won’t save you either, in the US all cellular devices are required to have a GPS built in (it was part of the same law that made the Amber Alert).
Because there aren’t any developers in charge any more. At places like MS and Google now promotions are given to people who make a big splash. Fixing a bug doesn’t get attention.
When I was in high school the trend was baggy pants and lots of women did wear men’s pants.
We absolutely saw those photos in school in the US… maybe this person just didn’t pay attention?
The Malt-O-Meal brand I used to get started being really bad about that to the point that it was almost rarer to get a single piece rather than a combo piece.
I think you are giving people too much credit. Lots of people have a budget they can spend on appliances (like a credit line) and they get the best (most expensive) one they can get on that budget. Others will do the opposite and get the cheapest but only people like you find on Lemmy (Linux users for instance) in my experience will make a choice in the middle based on feature set.
The US is turning against white people. It was already against everybody else.
For what it’s worth an NPU is why your phone could tell you that photo is of a cat years before LLMs were the hot new thing. They were originally marketed as accelerators for machine learning applications before everybody started calling that AI.
I wish people better understood the logistics of a general strike.
For the record my people were forced off their land by the US government almost 200 years ago in an event called the Trail of Tears. This has always been a dictatorship for some.
An anti-static bag wouldn’t do anything. I assume you mean the Faraday cage bags, which would prevent your phone from pinging anything as would a hardware switch but wouldn’t prevent them from searching it if you get arrested.