Congratulations.

Open platform my ass. Most carriers just use Google’s servers for it.

What choice do I have? Not using a phone? Not being able to message my relatives when not bringing a laptop to school?

After I unlocked the bootloader and flashed custom software, the privacy invasive OS from Xiaomi is gone, unless they embedded a spyware into the bootloader, which any other company could also do.

But I do use Linux on my laptop and try to avoid useless and privacy invasive smart home devices (which is all smart home devices).

Don’t worry. When I will be able to afford it, I will switch to a GrapheneOS phone.

Well, 800 - 1000€ for a new pixel is normal even in EU. Where the fuck could I even get that kind of money as a highschooler? I’ll just use my old (2017) Redmi 4x with LineageOS for the time being. I know it isn’t secure, but it’s the best I have.

And of course, I don’t recommend buying older redmis (I got mine for free around a year ago). The security is atrocious since it doesn’t support AVB (not even with original OS). I’m always anxious about it starting to bootloop (since it randomly restarts, I saw the same issue on multiple Xiaomi phones, even ~2 year old ones). And while I have used some decent phones from 2017, the Redmi’s performance is underwhelming while others (like my mom’s huawei p10) still perform well.

Well, it works for MC, older games, even stray runs somewhat (from my experience). It’s decent for a 300€ laptop with a quad core like the ones in the post.

I think it has drive integration but haven’t used it.

Yep, suse is cool, the default firewall config is way more restricted (safer but annoying at times). Dbeaver can’t install some essential depends for some reason and shotcut is missing some features (I could try fixing it but for now I just use appimages). It is way more stable than fedora or arch, even if I sometimes forget to upgrade it for months.

Eh, most people probably don’t brag about doing war crimes.

It isn’t it’s just an excuse to put people you don’t like in some kind of hole where they rot to death.

Yes, the minority is harassing the majority. Hmm, very logical.

Some people really enjoy someone else being worse off than them.

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Bypass works - wire the USB port to the BMS of the battery or just the USB cable directly and out the headphone port (while removing the port of course).

Compared to the shitload of capitalism only this year?

Well, my mom’s 2014 golf mk7 doesn’t have telematics. Just look at the specs and buy a car based on it.

It’s a fucking walled garden. Just support pop/IMAP protocols, oh wait that will cannibalize their bridge service (only on premium)

Well, most people from the entire world are stupid/aggressive to minorities enough they are willing to fuck the world up.

Nuking their data centers all over the world?

AKA, people are stupid.

Who the fuck locks away their online marketplace behind an accountwall. I can’t even buy used shit in Slovenia anymore. The online stores we used to use are way less populated.