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I find modern smartphones more and more unusable, both OS becoming more hostile towards the user, and applications widely moving to dropping logins in regular i

I find modern smartphones more and more unusable, both OS becoming more hostile towards the user, and applications widely moving to dropping logins in regular intervals. That has been happening for years already, so I slowly moved more and more stuff back to a computer. By now I'm at a point where I no longer even backup my phone - there are a bunch of apps, but I can just install them and log in again on a different device as needed. The final step to make it truly throwaway was me doing a custom matrix bridge for SMS earlier this year - I had voice routing setup for a while already. So now my old SIM cards are in a 4G modem at home, and the phone I carry around with me just has a data SIM. Huge quality of life improvement, as I can terminate as many numbers as I want there, and have access to both voice and SMS data from my computer as well.

rconti 6d ago
How does this relate to travel? Are you saying that the modern smartphone drops logins so often that the burner is less of a burden? Or that you should just travel with a laptop? (which I do quite often, since a thin laptop takes so little space and weight)
- finaard 5d ago
  Both. My standard phone defacto already is a burner phone, so I'd just either wipe it or pick something new up when travelling to that kind of countries. Similar for a notebook - I'd travel with an empty one, restore it after arriving, and wipe it again before leaving. I have infrastructure in place to make that easy and secure for me to do.