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For those unaware yet, I am the author of the over-5000-word article **.

When I was around 8 years old, a children's news channel named Logo! reported printers being deliberately designed to quit functioning properly after a predetermined number of pages.

This idea already sounded repugnant to my 8-year-young brain.

If a device is designed to fail and difficult to repair, it feels like not actually owning it.

In 2010, the iPhone 4 was released. I already heard of iPhones before then, but that was the first time I realized they have non-user-replaceable batteries.

From a Nintendo DS Lite user manual, I already knew batteries only last for a limited number of recharging cycles until they lose their ability to output power and store energy.

And what has it come to a decade later? Mobile phones with user-replaceable batteries have been fully usurped.

The few remaining ones with replaceable batteries such as the Galaxy Xcover Pro have low-tier technical specifications such as the same resolution and frame rate for video recording as the 2011 Galaxy S2: 1080p@30fps.

For those unaware yet, I am the author of the over-5000-word article *[Benefits of user-replaceable batteries](https://en.EverybodyWiki.com/Benefits_of_user-replaceable_batteries)*. When I was around 8 years old, a children's news channel named *Logo!* reported printers being deliberately designed to quit functioning properly after a predetermined number of pages. This idea already sounded repugnant to my 8-year-young brain. If a device is designed to fail and difficult to repair, it feels like not actually owning it. In 2010, the iPhone 4 was released. I already heard of iPhones before then, but that was the first time I realized they have non-user-replaceable batteries. From a Nintendo DS Lite user manual, I already knew batteries only last for a limited number of recharging cycles until they lose their ability to output power and store energy. And what has it come to a decade later? Mobile phones with user-replaceable batteries have been fully usurped. The few remaining ones with replaceable batteries such as the Galaxy Xcover Pro have low-tier technical specifications such as the same resolution and frame rate for video recording as the 2011 Galaxy S2: 1080p@30fps.

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I imagine that even getting an anon pre-paid SIM will be a thing of the past before too much longer. I don't really know of anywhere here in the states you can do that.

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Since 2017, for alleged terrorism prevention, one has to identify oneself facially to activate a SIM card in Germany.

That reason is absurd. Terrorists do never use the mainstream telephone/SMS line! They use encrypted messengers!

CC:

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It's just about control and idiots that don't understand how things actually work.

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Really? I though you guys had more freedom than that.

Well our government is infiltrated by commies but we still have loyal nationalists and NS agents in our gov. We have been able to take some measures to slow the personal rights violation by certain laws slipped past the commies.

Unfortunately the commies knew we ran CSIS and took strong counter measures against CSIS firing many agents and sometimes even trying to charge or fine some under bullshit laws they got in. In short CSIS is no longer ours, it is theirs now, BUT there are secrets they do not get by taking over. Only one agent was exposed inside the commies camp. But it turned out ok.

The only problem is everybody who was outside the box is disenfranchised, they have no support mechanism at this point and things are not looking good for the US or Canada. And Europe is almost completely doomed.

We need more public involvement and that means waking people up to a world of truth they are brainwashed to dismiss.

I hope you are at least in a gun friendly zone. And advise anybody of higher intellect and abilities to leave the cities.

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I'm in an area where I can strap a pistol to my side and a rifle to my back and walk down the street with it and there's not a damn thing anyone can do about it. It only gets funny when you hide the weapon in your coat, but there are people tripping over themselves to offer the conceal carry training.

We really haven't been able to buy anon sims for a long time. There's a decent black market in old pre-pay stuff tho, the ones I have could probably finance a nice used car if I chose to sell them.

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WOW that sounds creepy that you can't buy anon sims normally, what about top up vouchers? Can you buy them for cash or would you have to use a card online? You can get all sorts of sims from Canada, even from our socialist telecoms that the bankers haven't stolen from us. Here you can buy vouchers anywhere too. Cash on the barrel head!