I’ve actually just had my eSIM decision backfire on me.

I switched months ago and hadn’t had an issue until I got ready to go to an airport last week. I figured I’d be able to switch off the eSIM and switch on Airplane Mode so my phone could essentially be an offline iPod, but when I landed and tried turning it back on it didn’t work. I then found people discussing the same issue on their phones (GrapheneOS + Pixel 7) and really regretted messing with it.

My carrier’s account login hilariously requires an SMS 2FA to the phone number that’s been yeeted from existence and since I’ve been staying with in-laws this Christmas I’m not willing to sit on hold for however many hours to recover my account till I get home.

More than that are they just ignoring windowing an application and resizing it to fit? You know, the namesake of their operating system?

To be fair I just follow a collection of subs and never switch to the local or all tabs. You don’t seem to have to see your own instance all that often if you don’t want to

Huh. You think read receipts via RCS could make it worse? Obviously Google would probably have to make an exception to allow for this but hey “Don’t Be Evil”