I've been on /. long enough to remember when most people here leaned libertarian. Ian Freeman would've been celebrated as a hero. I'm shocked at the current unquestioning acceptance of whatever the Establishment media says. Sad.

Here's a different take on this story and a deep dive into Ian Freeman.

> Networks have always had unique and total power. In some cases they IMEI link SIMs so you can't swap them out without their approval.

In practice, this is not normally the case. I can move my SIM from one phone to another without making a request to the carrier.

> How do you do transfer an eSIM? The same way you provisioned it in the first place.

By making a request to the carrier?

> Just log in online and get a new eSIM QR code issued.

So, yes. By making a request to the carrier. That is specifically the objection. And it would specifically be a problem if my phone breaks where I don't have internet access and I can't put the SIM into my spare phone.

OK. How do you export an eSIM from a phone and import it?

People haven't had good swapping devices at the drop of a hat using some networks:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforums.att.com%2Fconversations%2Fapple%2Fmoving-esim-between-phones%2F5df01d6cbad5f2f606125131
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2Ftmobile%2Fcomments%2Fgpvqgt%2Ffigured_out_how_to_esim_swap_between_phones_wo%2F
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theverge.com%2F23412033%2Fesim-phone-plan-device-switch-ios-android

The carrier's incentives to force phone sales to go through them and control their infrastructure is greater than their incentive to make it easy for you to use their network.

This isn't just conjecture. This is exactly how CDMA carriers operated until they were forced on the SIM train by LTE.

Great, so we're in agreement favoring self interest or principle isn't a blanket decision.

Having a principle that you will put over your own personal well being is not stupid.

It is principled.

We can argue about whether this principle is a good one, but most good things we've had in history have come from people putting principle over their own self-interest.

Why should everyone else change because of what you prefer? If enough people agree then surely people would just collectively change what time they go to work instead of screwing with the clock?

When I had to go to work at an hour I didn't like, I got another job. You could do that. What were you saying about whining?

If you don't like that it's dark when you get home, then get up and start your day earlier instead of waiting to see a magic number on the clock.

Maybe we could use another alternative to the broken system rather than just feeding it more.

I finally have a real credit line after many years of being unable to get any credit but secured loans from local banks. The only thing that changed was getting a secured credit card and paying on it for a few years.

All the typical advice about improving your credit is the Right Thing to Do, but people who are caught in statistical black holes and can't get proper lines of credit--whether they are like me and started from zero or like the subject of the article who had some rough times but are long past it and still unable to recover--need some alternative.

Worse than just having ads in on a paid product, Samsung updated ad-free apps used by paying customers to include ads.

It's not the syntax logic. It's the syntax noise.

There are plenty of things that I'm smart enough to figure out and use that I won't out of resentment for it expecting me to waste brain cycles to decipher what could have been clear.

Things should not be oversimplified, but holy crap should they also not be overcomplicated. Even people who adapt themselves to the weird syntax jungles spend extra mental effort to keep it up. They've just reduced that effort and made it transparent to themselves so they don't care.

But we can do better as a society.

Rust has the unique benefit of being low-level while also having safety guarantees. It is nothing to sneeze at.

Unfortunately, its syntax is an awful mess and it is a pain to read any but the simplest code. Its proponents generally disagree, but it was designed and adopted by people who willingly used C++ in the first place.

He apologizes for things he did, knowingly and unknowingly.

He doesn't apologize for things that he did not do, regardless of the fact that he was accused of them.