Ban orphan kernels to stop all theft of ownership. The carrier is irrelevant. The control comes directly from the binary hardware support modules for the Linux kernel on the device. If that source code was merged into the kernel, your device would work for decades. Sure, you may not want to use them forever, bit all your old hardware would still have uses elsewhere and a real second hand market instead of miscellaneous junk drawer nostalgia trinkets.
Ban orphan kernels to stop all theft of ownership. The carrier is irrelevant. The control comes directly from the binary hardware support modules for the Linux kernel on the device. If that source code was merged into the kernel, your device would work for decades. Sure, you may not want to use them forever, bit all your old hardware would still have uses elsewhere and a real second hand market instead of miscellaneous junk drawer nostalgia trinkets.