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mrecheese 🧀 mrecheese@nostr.21mil.me 1 year ago
Our kid has my old Pixel 5a running #GrapheneOS with no physical SIM. It's basically a big music player/Meshtastic messenger. We just installed a silent.link eSIM to test it out. It was about 22k sats for setup and $5 worth of data. At our local rate, it should be about 3GB. A quick Threema video call burned about 5MB. The data doesn't expire, so it should be handy for some situation where he might need to send us a message. I'd rather not have any network connection on it at all, but this seems like a decent compromise. 3GB of data on today's internet doesn't last long, and you couldn't squeeze 5 sats out of him with a steamroller. He will NOT want to pay for a reload. It should be self-policing for those times we're not there to supervise. Overall, this is probably a fair option for a kid phone. Pay as you go, just like the old days. Anyone can reload it from anywhere, also. I can't see any reason not to just have one loaded up if you have the eSIM available. View quoted note →
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Thanks for sharing, been thinking about this a lot for my kiddos future first phone setup 🤙
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mrecheese 🧀 mrecheese@nostr.21mil.me 1 year ago
I'm not sure you can go wrong. This is set up with: - GOS - Mullvad VPN always-on - Orbot - Silent.Link eSIM - Meshtastic - Sideband - Threema - Session - SimpleX - Coinos installed as a PWA Plenty of ways to communicate and pay/get paid, without all the bullshit. I either manually (rarely) connect it to our wifi or I connect to my phone as a hotspot for web access. The only thing I'd change is to upgrade the phone itself, and that will happen when @Yarnlady 🧶 gets a new one. The boy's LN address is buffalogarage@coinos.io if you want to show him some love. It's rough listening to me rant about this stuff all the time, then going to school with a bunch of NPC soy children. I'll forward all these zaps to him so he sees a little reward for fighting off the tiktok tribe. Thanks for that, all of you. I hope it's helpful info. WE STACK THE CORN. WE ZAP THE NOTES. WE PROTECT THE CHILDREN. 💪💪👊👊
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mrecheese 🧀 mrecheese@nostr.21mil.me 1 year ago
Oh boy, you're about to have some fun. I have one on every phone. I use one with the US number plan for text verification crap. Our son has used it traveling a couple of times to message or call us, also. I still highly recommend it for a kid's device. Prepaid like the good old days.
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Our kid has my old Pixel 5a running #GrapheneOS with no physical SIM. It's basically a big music player/Meshtastic messenger. We just installed a silent.link eSIM to test it out. It was about 22k sats for setup and $5 worth of data. At our local rate, it should be about 3GB. A quick Threema video call burned about 5MB. The data doesn't expire, so it should be handy for some situation where he might need to send us a message. I'd rather not have any network connection on it at all, but this seems like a decent compromise. 3GB of data on today's internet doesn't last long, and you couldn't squeeze 5 sats out of him with a steamroller. He will NOT want to pay for a reload. It should be self-policing for those times we're not there to supervise. Overall, this is probably a fair option for a kid phone. Pay as you go, just like the old days. Anyone can reload it from anywhere, also. I can't see any reason not to just have one loaded up if you have the eSIM available. View quoted note →
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