Lol history is repeating and rhyming.

Good thing nobody ever have memory issues /s

Not sure about that… random recordings is how some documentaries are pieced together.

I paid for the whole phone, I’m gonna use the every feature of the phone.

I wish my brain had a record function. Like the black mirror thing minus the dystopia aspect of it.

I wanna experience some nostalgia.

Or just eat your hand lol

I tried bathing my cat once and screamed as if she were at a butcher, and banged on the glass/plastic semi-transparent sliding doors in the bathtub. I didn’t wanna get eaten alive so I let her out with barely a rinse in the shower. She now can sense the bathroom and will scream and struggle to get off if I try to carry her in there. I think she got Cat-PTSD and I don’t think she has trusted me ever since… 🫠

Wonderful cat things…

Its a raw chicken 🤭

c/ForbiddenSnacks

I American’t sign European petitions

Instructions unclear, I am now become animal food, adding more microplastics into the animal food chain. 💀

Me trying to pick her up.

But once I do, she’s like:

Then 5 second later, stuggles to get off me.

But also she never drinks from a water fountain. That fountain is now just collecting dust…

Spoofing IMEI isn’t helping if OP pays for the service with bank account / credit card, or walks in a store to pay but with face exposed, or turns on the cell-hotspot device on at home (because they’ll be able to associate the SIM/Service-Plan with your address via cellular triangulation, and thus your identity)

By hiding the IMEI, the provider won’t be able to associate the device with me when I use it solely on public Wi-Fi such as in a café

I think you’re a little confused. Connecting to Public Wifi (or any wifi), will not reveal IMEI, it does reveal your Wifi MAC Address, and if you have Bluetooth on, it will reveal your Bluetooth MAC Address, but will not reveal your IMEI (unless you have malware on your phone).

In modern smartphones, including iOS, Android, and especially GrapheneOS, Wifi MAC addresses are spoofed by default, generating a random MAC address for each Wifi network. You can even go to Developer settings of Android to enable randomization for each different session of the same wifi network (or you can “forget” the network and reconnect and, from my testing, it would immediately change the MAC address for that network).

Although, if you have iOS or Google’s Android, you can’t be sure if the companies themselves are tracking you, but but a privacy Android ROM (like GrapheneOS) with Wifi MAC randomization enabled should be very safe.

Keep Airplane mode on so it stops connecting to cell towers.

Though I’m still curious about:

May I also ask how much information is carried to the second device by using hotspot? By this I meant the phone with IMEI will be able to know my device name, but what else? Will the phone with IMEI also be able to know the device model?

Your device name and Wifi MAC address is revealed, so change the default “Google Pixel” to something else to hide the fact that it’s a Google Pixel. But, some wifi access points can detect your device model anyways. My Xfinity gateway will show my Phone’s name and what model of phone I have. So I’ll just assume that: Device Name, Device Model, and MAC (which is randomized) is known. Shouldn’t be that much of a privacy risk unless Google Pixels aren’t popular in your area. If there are a lot of Google Pixels around, they can’t prove it was your Google Pixel.

Is it a good enough solution for IMEI tracking to use an alternative device to provide a hotspot connection?

What?

So you wanna use another phone as a hotspot and connect your GrapheneOS Phone to it?

I mean, what exactly do you mean by “IMEI Tracking”? Location?

Well they won’t know the location of your GrapheneOS Phone, but they’ll still know the location of your alternate phone. Not sure what you’re trying to achieve here.

Yea I tried that, still depressed, and now I also have a cat that’s depressed because I struggle to take care of her 🙃

catass.com

a website where you can identify the gender of the cat

There are still countries even worse than the US.

And I think you’re underestimating the strength of an immigrant’s will to take risks to attempt to find a better life. Immigrants have suffered far worse throught US History.

I mean, just take a look at Wong Kim Ark. Dude didn’t just give up and leave, he stood his ground and fought though it, even though he had no idea if the US would even consider his case seriously.

And many people already have relatives in the US. So these are the risks they are willing to take to reunite. Unlike many westerners, who just completely give up on the slightest obstacles.

(Although I do think the much better option now is the EU, if they don’t have any relatives in the US already.)

There’s tiger that want to eat you and you want to negotiate a peace treaty with the tiger. 🤣

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I wonder how times have changed. I know someone who immigrated to the US around 2010s, they had no social media, most of their country didn’t really have internet yet. They were let in just fine and have since became a US citizen.

So is 2010s have no expectation of having social media, but now its an expectation?

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Make a fake one that posts like… idk post random tech stuff that you could be reasonably interested in. Make nothing critical of authority. As a decoy profile.

Then you can rant about big brother on an anonymous Lemmy Account over TOR.