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[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From the phone manufacturer, it's fewer traces and less mechanical design work.

From the carrier side, it requires you to have their spyware installed to register the Sim

From a user perspective, someone can't just steal your Sim and put it in another phone

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Except that’s not true, I neither need to install any apps nor give my data to my service provider.

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Then you are using a feature phone, or a standard Android/iOS device with their tools preinstalled

If you try to use it with a free operating system, it's not possible.

Here are the instructions for installing the bridge code on Graphene: https://grapheneos.org/usage#esim-support

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] iopq@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago