I've got a switching problem
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The past two weeks I've developed a problem. Almost every other day I've been switching between two tech extremes, my MacBook + iPad Pro + iPhone + Apple Watch setup and my Ubuntu ThinkPad + GrapheneOS Pixel + Supernote Nomad + Fitbit/Pixel Watch setup. It's gotten to the point that I imagine someone at Google Fi must be looking at my insane amount of eSim transfers and just thinking "what the hell is wrong with this guy?".
I think there's a number of reasons why my mind has been causing me to do this, but it all comes down to one goal: dumping Apple once and for all. There's the obvious case for privacy, escaping the walled garden and freeing myself from iCloud subscriptions. I also want to get out of such an expensive line of products, and open myself up to more Chinese domestic products (Xiaomi, Huawei, etc) in case I do end up moving to the country. Finally, I just find my Linux based computing devices to be faster. Somehow my Pixel 9 Pro is leagues snappier than my iPhone 17 Pro Max, and my ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 (feels like) it can run circles around my MacBook M1 Pro. Ever since Liquid Glass, my Apple devices just feel sluggish.
But then why do I keep switching back to Apple? Primarily guilt, I spent too much on these damn Apple devices to not use them. Maybe someday I'll just bite the bullet and sell the Apple devices, until then, sorry Google Fi, I'm gonna need some more eSims provisioned.