I don't know if the 215 supports tethering, but there are feature phones that do paired with a laptop or even something like a steam deck (running linux) is the way to go if you really need mobile internet
you get privacy and freedom from the smartphone-service-based-everything-forever lifesytle, it's nice
Apple's just really weird when it comes to the control they exert over devices.
they do it with 'privacy' in mind and what they come up with is usually better than the worst case but it can still be pretty iffy
eg. a few months back when their notarization/entitlement verification system was being discussed
it's all just their vision of computing (which has some merits), hyper-controlled, locked down and "safe" it's not going to change if you're not comfortable with it you really shouldn't be using their products
this is how it always starts, Apple went from 'no it's not possible to unlock the shooters phone' to 'yeah you can give us the fingerprint of any image (maybe doucuments too) and we'll check which of our users has it'
TBH I've been considering just dropping a smartphone all together, I don't really get much value out of it since i'm on my laptop most of the time when I want to internet anyway
No, I'm being serious. technology like this could be very beneficial.
there's a good chance that if we continue to improve surveillance law enforcement agencies and justice departments could begin to focus on rehabilitation and growing a kinder world.
right they are like firemen trying to put out fires after the building has been ruined
if it doesn't work we're doomed anyway, so what's the problem?
you make that sound like a bad thing, I'd love to live in a world without child abuse spreading rampant on the internet and not having to suffer though what passes for political speech (memes) these days.
maybe once we detect and stop stuff like this from happening before it gets very bad, we can grow as a society and adjust our forms of punishment accordingly too