One would’ve thought the organization that stands for open source software to be quite democratic. Seems that may not be the case.

I’m not American, but why would a rental agency need a customer’s SSN?

You won’t lose them if you back them up. SMS Backup and Restore can automate the task for you.

1. Don’t go to the United States

If you really have to…

1. Backup phone.
2. Factory reset (make sure you really backed up everything)
3. Install only essential apps (not from backup). Don’t log into anything.
4. Cross border. (you just got a new phone and haven’t set it up yet)
5. Restore backup.

Very clever use of a cymbal stand.

No torrent needed, yt-dlp has you covered.

Who would buy a flagship gaming-pc without the admin-pwd and without being allowed to change the os?

Is that not exactly what a gaming console is?