• @normalexit@lemmy.world
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    406 days ago

    Get a burner. Browse some boring content with it: few business websites, maybe some sports scores, maybe snap some photos of landscapes and dogs on the camera roll.

    Then you have a functional phone and piece of mind. Making the phone feel “lived in” probably isn’t all that important, but I think it’d be easier to explain than a factory stock pay as you go phone.

    • @slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org
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      205 days ago

      It’s kind of crazy that that’s where we at. That you have to pretend to have a “normal” phone. I don’t remember what it was, but i had a phone i think an oppo some time ago where you could set up a fake phone, depending on the fingerprint. So my right finger was my normal phone and my left finger was the burner phone. I never used it, but i found that pretty funny

    • @ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 days ago

      I’ve had colleagues just play the “I don’t fucking care if you’re sending me back because my papers have a spelling mistake, this is just a business trip” method when US customs/immigration starts acting up. Not sure I’d have the balls to do that now that the US is sending people to KZ camp light for pretty much nothing.

    • Ulrich
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      05 days ago

      but I think it’d be easier to explain than a factory stock pay as you go phone.

      You do not need to and should not explain anything. Don’t answer any questions.