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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Xiaomi can suck my balls, the very first automatic updates they force on a new phone is the stuff that sticks advertise EVERY. FUCKING. WHERE. Gallery? Have some ads. Settings? Get yo ads! Calculator? ADS ADS ADS! I can't tell whether they're on par or worse than Samsung with stupid bloat, data harvesting and ads everywhere. The fucking phones are also infuriatingly condescending, treating you like a dumb toddler, showing warnings about "daaaaangeroooooooous" actions you might be doing and putting 30s timers before you can hit "LET ME FUCKING CONTINUE"

Unlocking the bootloader is such a hassle, too, I gave up and used ADB Bridge to uninstall some of the bloatware to make my experience less insufferable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

sad as fuck if true. i really liked xiaomi.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

ASUS did this recently & lost a lawsuit in the UK for lying to customers to say unlock servers were only temporarily down for a couple months (lol)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Interesting. I hadn't heard about this. I got this response from Xiaomi earlier today after complaining they mis-sold me a phone as their unique selling point was the ability to unlock the bootloader.

"We hope you could understand, that such an operation will disable some of the built-in security features of the system, and those security features are part of what keeps the operating system safe and your data secure from exposure or corruption. And this misuse will void your phone's warranty and it may render your phone useless depending on the security measures in place on your phone."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Glad I didn't buy a zenfone, looked like a great option but that sucks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had it in my cart & went to double-check nothing changed about unlocking… happy I took a step back

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is wretched that you have to maintain constant vigilance on this bullshit, though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Remember when phones just came unlocked out of the box? You could just flash whatever you wanted on day 1 and without any data loss

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Another words they want to harvest your data

Anyway I am still rocking a 2019 phone with Lineage OS and it works pretty well. Used phones are where its at these days. Hold on to your working device until it dies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Still got my phone from 2020, I really like the phone but the software is creaking, even the custom ROM I moved to is now discontinued and no Lineage available.

I looked at porting something myself but it is ... not trivial to say the least.

Just feels frustrating that the phone still works fine but is gradually losing functionality and I can't update it. Also ngl I really miss having contactless payments. I've tried all the fixes I can find online with no success.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Cool.
My country has limited choice in phone OEMs. Soon the only unlockable choice will be Motorola.
And when they too stop allowing it, I guess I can go fuck myself🖕

The hell is the point of putting more powerful silicon in the damn things if they'll just keep restricting what you can do with them more and more each year?

I fucking hate tech companies, man.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Member back when you used to be optimistic about the upcoming innovation? Now the only "innovation" is enshitification.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The point of more power technology is to easily control their users more. The days of having "open" phones died with Nexus

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I'm fragmenting my devices more and more.

I recently bought a cheap mp3 player, quit streaming, found new piracy routes for music, back to basics. Still use Spotify for browsing and finding new bands. All good.

I use a kindle and read ebooks a lot.

At the rate phones are going, I'll have a digital camera and a dumb phone soon.

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