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Curious what led to the decision to use "burner" devices, was it fear of confiscation? I spent 2 weeks in China in 2024 (Tianjin, Tangshan, Chengdu, and Beijing

Curious what led to the decision to use "burner" devices, was it fear of confiscation? I spent 2 weeks in China in 2024 (Tianjin, Tangshan, Chengdu, and Beijing), used Astrill as my VPN on my iphone and macbook pro and didn't experience any connectivity issues or app crashes. I even had a 45min signal voice call with someone state side. I was using Astrill's VIP add-on however. > It's a good reminder that what's lacking in life is not time. It's focus. If you're working on what matters, you can advance leaps and bounds in 8 hours. And if you're just clearing the slog, you can spend a lifetime staying in the same place. This. Incredibly obvious yet incredibly difficult to put into practice day-to-day. Another underrated perk of traveling internationally. All of a sudden, trivial nonsense starts to reveal itself through absence, allowing you to sort accordingly - carries over when you're at your home-base as well.

oldasfuk 2y ago
> > It's a good reminder that what's lacking in life is not time. It's focus. If you're working on what matters, you can advance leaps and bounds in 8 hours. And if you're just clearing the slog, you can spend a lifetime staying in the same place. bahahaha literally spoken by a 24 year-old. Let's see if he thinks time is not a limiter at 48. With any self-awareness the profound truth he should be saying: Life can be abnormally easy when you're handsome and charistmatic.
MisterTea 2y ago
> Curious what led to the decision to use "burner" devices, When visiting you are required to install a tracking app. At that point your phone is considered compromised. So you bring a burner that gets infected instead and you toss afterwards.
- 1659447091 2y ago
  > When visiting you are required to install a tracking app Do you have details on this? I visited a little before Covid went down and that was not the case at the time. Been wanting to go back before my visa expires
- olalonde 2y ago
  Not sure where you got that information from but that's wrong. You're not required to install any app.
  - MisterTea 2y ago
    I spoke to someone who traveled there post COVID in 2022. They started they had to install a tracker app, perhaps COVID tracking? Perhaps I am misremembering something.
    - olalonde 2y ago
      At one point, there was a WeChat mini-app with a health-related form that needed to be filled out. However, a paper version was also available, and it's no longer required.
- p_j_w 2y ago
  I got back from China earlier this month. I was never required to install any sort of app.

oldasfuk 2y ago

> > It's a good reminder that what's lacking in life is not time. It's focus. If you're working on what matters, you can advance leaps and bounds in 8 hours. And if you're just clearing the slog, you can spend a lifetime staying in the same place. bahahaha literally spoken by a 24 year-old. Let's see if he thinks time is not a limiter at 48. With any self-awareness the profound truth he should be saying: Life can be abnormally easy when you're handsome and charistmatic.

MisterTea 2y ago

> Curious what led to the decision to use "burner" devices, When visiting you are required to install a tracking app. At that point your phone is considered compromised. So you bring a burner that gets infected instead and you toss afterwards.

1659447091 2y ago
> When visiting you are required to install a tracking app Do you have details on this? I visited a little before Covid went down and that was not the case at the time. Been wanting to go back before my visa expires
olalonde 2y ago
Not sure where you got that information from but that's wrong. You're not required to install any app.
- MisterTea 2y ago
  I spoke to someone who traveled there post COVID in 2022. They started they had to install a tracker app, perhaps COVID tracking? Perhaps I am misremembering something.
  - olalonde 2y ago
    At one point, there was a WeChat mini-app with a health-related form that needed to be filled out. However, a paper version was also available, and it's no longer required.
p_j_w 2y ago
I got back from China earlier this month. I was never required to install any sort of app.