Like I said, Trezor is using heavy glue for their packaging and I personally don't like this and I don't think this makes hardware wallets safer in any way.
Imagine if smartphones you buy or anything else comes with boxes like this that need to be destroyed, for me that would be very annoying.
But you can make suggestion to Keystone developers to work on improving this for their new model, and I think new model is going to come out in 2023

Maybe someone could talk more about other hardware wallets, but I think that ledger, passport, coldcard and others also don't have super strong glue used with ''safu'' packaging.

A small facility here on LI is shutting down due to lack of funds, even at $0.04 KWh rate, a massive tax relief package and other things their 250+ S19 and S19Pro were  / are all loosing money every day. After the cost of cooling, staff and everything else they need $21,500 to $22,000 BTC to sustain operations. When they started it was easy, all the loans are paid, the miners are paid off and so on. But now, each and every day they are loosing money. Unless something happens they are out end of 1st quarter 2023. As of now unless BTC hits $35,000 they are going to make more money selling the miners overseas then doing anything else. HOWEVER, since they are existing you can take over without going through any of the permitting and such been trying to sell for 90 days or so they started the process after labor day weekend. Zero, none, nada people are interested.

Well my stay in the forum has been quite a journey so far and i have learnt and gained more knowledge than i even expected. I wont believe if someone actually told me i would be having a wallet and not to talk of transacting with this wallet is just a great achievement for me . The encouragement i got from top forum members after my first purchase in bitcoin was really encouraging and i just believe that with what i have learnt and i know now, i feels this is the perfect time in the crypto space to buy bitcoin.

My reason for creating this thread is today is that today is going to be the first time for me to be transacting with my electrum wallet after i was encouraged by the forum top to move my coins from an exchange platform to a wallet with which I have full control(electrum) .

Now i donno know but i feel  its taking too long for a transaction i made to be confirmed please guys what do you think is the problem of this transaction

There is a difference between 'financial problems' and "the market has changed we don't need you anymore and the even larger profits are down (or negative)" so it's time to reduce headcount. As I posted elsewhere many tech businesses don't do layoffs when they are doing well. It's the keep them around just in case we need them mentality. In this bear market, you can't just keep some people.

I know someone who was just let go from Gemini. As she put it: Now she gets to spend the summer living off her severance package while doing nothing. As opposed to getting her regular paycheck to do nothing. The project her group was working on ended sometime in late 2021 with the deployment in early 2022. For the last 3 months she joked that her job was head youtube video watcher. So them letting those people go was not a surprise to any of them. BUT had this been a bull market they probably would still be there waiting for the next project while watching videos.....

That's very interesting. Completely clear screen protectors or with texture on them? And were they from glass (some thickness to it) or just thin plastic foil?
It's a fact that screen protectors affect the image quality of a smartphone screen, such as decreasing color accuracy and creating more fingerprints.

Did you notice that some phones were faster to scan a specific 'target' device than others? And do phones outperform a PC webcam?
Because I'm pretty sure that smartphones have ASIC or FPGA (depending on manufacturer) technology in the SoC for image recognition; amongst it, QR code recognition specifically.

Except if you're using QR codes as a communication medium between online device and airgapped hardware wallet.

Guys and girls, don't make me laugh with your comments about HW being too expensive, because that's simply not true. The Nano S Plus costs about $80, and the older Trezor model costs about the same. How much did you pay for your smartphones, TV, computers and other things you use every day?

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For all the reasons already mentioned, but does it matter at all? Most people do not even understand what Bitcoin is, and investing in something without knowing what exactly it is about is completely wrong. When you build a house, you won't move into it if it doesn't have a roof, if you buy a car, you'll probably first get a driver's license and so on. So the first place should be knowledge, then the application of that knowledge in order to ensure proper storage, and only then investment - unfortunately, many go in the reverse order.

Thanks for sharing your point of view. That's why I said I personally don't like potential profit going to a "third" party first. I wouldn't want to watch my >6.25 BTC profit get transferred to you, and shortly after read the message here on the board or somewhere else on a newspaper that you had an accident and died or something else bad happened to you and thus I never get my money because it is parked on your bitcoin address.

I tried to Google the issue, but except a few similar questions where people have reported the same things as you (having issues to scan QR codes on devices that had screen protectors), I didn't come across a source with a reasonable explanation. Scanning a QR code from a different phone isn't as common as scanning codes from other surfaces in order to make payments. One could assume that the error correction features that QR codes have, would be enough to make the codes readable even under a screen protection, but obviously that's not the case.

You could try to contact some of the companies that produce screen protectors and ask them for more information and feedback about the problems.
It would be interesting to see if the codes are scannable if only part of the screen is covered with a screen protector (a third or half of it). No one would use a screen protector in that way, obviously, but it's also an experiment to see how good the QR code error correction capabilities are.

I just tried scanning both codes from my Nokia 8 smartphone, which is already several years old. I made 8 scans altogether. 4 from my laptop screen and 4 from the connected external monitor. Both QR codes were scanned from both monitors using two different apps: Electrum and Google Authenticator. I know that Google Authy can't do anything with the codes, but that's not the point. I just wanted to test the scanning capabilities. I had no problems with any of the scans. I didn't even have to position the phone or keep the device steady. It had no problems capturing either code.   

I understand your concerns, but no matter the quality of the packages, most things can still be faked. Luckily you can always rely on software and/or hardware authentication to verify if you have received a genuine hardware wallet or not.

Web Authentication: A Counter to Supply Chain Attacks

The article explains that each Keystone comes with preinstalled public and private keys in the secure element chip that are only used for verifying whether or not the device is genuine. These are not the private keys that sign transactions during transactions of your coins. During the setup process of your HW, you will be asked to visit the official Keystone authentication website. It's connected to a server that also has a public and private keypair just like your wallet. A genuine Keystone HW knows the public key of the server, and the server knows the public keys of genuine hardware devices. Once you start the authentication, you need to scan a QR code on the website which is encrypted with your device's public key and signed with the private key from the Keystone server. During the verification process, your HW will check the signature to make sure it comes from the official authentication page. The hardware device will decrypt the scanned message with its own private key. The result should be an 8-digit code that needs to be entered on the website. If the verification succeeds, you are good to go. If not, there is an issue with your device.     

You have a point here. RAM is not even the best source of gold as motherboards have even more of it but the connectors are spread on a larger area so if you want something compact and uniform, memory sticks and CPUs are the best. A lot of gold also goes into audio cable connectors (jacks, RCA) and high end HDMI. It's used in TV sets, home cinema, mobile phones and more.

"Of the typical 3,000 metric tonnes of newly mined gold ore per year, some 300 tonnes of gold goes into producing high-end electronic devices (some may too come from another 1,000 tonnes annually recycled gold)."
https://sdbullion.com/blog/how-much-gold-is-in-a-computer-desktop-laptop

Is it easy to re-adhesive without showing any sign of reopening? The re-gluing should make it easier to detect that someone tried to open the box.

In general, I agree with you, it is a mistake that the sealing is so easy, and perhaps if the scammers take advantage of this trick, they may move to improve it a little.
Their prices are quite high, so there is nothing wrong with developing packaging.

I dare say that in many situations, an aircon running on heating would be a better heater than an old miner, because of typical COP, eg. using 1000 watts to do the same amount of heating as a 3000w fan heater / oil heater / miner. Not to mention floor space usage / noise.
Eg. a miner that's 96 TH/s, 2400 watts, 1.5% pool fee, would lose about $3.14/day @ $0.15/kwh power cost, compared to a small aircon using say 800 watts to pump 2400 watts running 24/7 would cost about $2.88/day (of course if your aircon never stops running, it's undersized.)

Modest/excess wattage spent on lotto mining sounds good.

This is very interesting to see, it could be even better than using Rpi if everything works ok, and it is certainly better than to throw away your android phone in garbage.
I guess phone needs to be connected to power all the time, but I am wondering how is it handling hard drive space, can you also use 1TB micro SD card or faster SSD drive?
It's nice to see code released on github, but you should add license information if it's open source.