Only for access to dinosaur services. I stopped checking vms, 100% spam and butt dials. Rly looking forward to ditching this vestigial 20th century security hole.

Yes, generally.

My dream is a secondhand device with only silent.link

I’m so privacy focused, I don’t even have a phone.

I have a device with a SIM for anything that requires it, but my daily devices are WiFi-only (Airplane mode and no SIM). If I have a SIM then I still only use WiFi calling. I know that's harder for people to live with in some other places though.

You can get a phone number or transfer your current one with jmp.chat without needing a sim. Then get the cheogram app to use it. It forwards calls and texts you receive. The UX is terrible but it works pretty very well once you get used to it, and you can pay with bitcoin