“any” Not necessarily. Not in all countries. And hardly in all shops.
And even if you did, that sure sounds like a lot more time and work and cost than clicking on NetworkManager in the right corner of your screen.
And even if it wasn’t, that sim card now links all your online activity to one sim card/esn/id unless you go through the additional process every day.
Mac address randomization is now default on a lot of network stacks. And doesn’t require walking into a 7-11.
Nothing’s perfect. I get that. But I want to work in the right direction at least.
Back to mapping related discussion… Self-geolocating with a map of Wi-Fi radios is the next best thing if you don’t have a gps receiver (most laptops still don’t for whatever reason).
But it looks like Wigle might best stand alone given their content licensing. or perhaps they could use osm for their map background. I wish Wigle was better run, more open, and I wish Mozilla wasn’t dumping their location services!!!