• mjr@infosec.pub
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    10 hours ago

    In most countries, getting a phone in a store is something done only by people happy to pay lots extra for a little human help, surely? The average user now signs up online and gets a phone in the mailbox.

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      8 hours ago

      If I asked my mom for her SIM card, she’d ask for her purse so she could attempt to find a credit card that doesn’t exist.

      She has no idea how a phone works in any capacity. I’m not being insulting about it, I am informing you of blatant and honest truth.

      My cousins, people my age are a hard maybe, I know two family members who went in-store recently. They treat their phones like cars. They use them and that’s as deep as it goes.

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        4 hours ago

        That’s not so informative without any idea of your age and thereby the ages of your examples.

        Many of them could still follow the assembly/card insertion instruction sheet with pictures that comes in the mail from the phone company, even without knowing which part is called a SIM.

        And maybe your area’s phone stores aren’t as notorious for overcharging as the UK’s.