Rocha

I believe the reason they do this is because some resellers were unlocking the bootloader and installing a ROM with malware and selling that off to unsuspecting customers. This delay (and needing to be registered with a phone number) makes that process both impractical and easy to detect.

This is true, but also really stupid. The resellers that insert malicious roms into their phones always manage to get a privileged account from someone at Xiaomi that allows for instant bootloader unlock, so only legit customers get screwed by this.

Do you know what will always be available in areas outside North America? Piracy.

That and some of Crunchyroll originals are the reason why I don't support this streaming industry.

It's a bit shitty, but it still works. You need to link your Xiaomi account with Mi Unlocker in the dev settings and then wait from 3 days to 1 month.

But since I do that when I first get the phone, by the time I want to install a custom rom, it's ready.

I was under the impression that was only for the Xiaomi.EU rom.

I'm not really into photographing, so I'm not into that a lot.

For regular photos without gcam, you can check the ones in the article.

I bought this phone and have no regrets.

The only thing lacking a bit for me is the software, but I'm just waiting for an official custom recovery and I'll install a pixel-like rom.

When I first tried to install Arch, I gave up when I got confused with the documentation for an encrypted install.

But since I've discovered archinstall, it's a dream to do and arguably faster to install than other distros.

Never said they didn't, but Firefox does as well and the duality of criteria is astonishing.

Google uses Signal protocol to handle E2E for RCS communication:

Google SAYS they use the Signal protocol.

Without open-source applications, you have to trust these companies to do the right thing when they can track you and make money from it in every single step of the way. Same goes for Meta with Whatsapp.

In that case, couldn't you just edit out the doxxing part?

What you are talking about is the operating system, not the cpu.

The ARM architecture allows much more performance for less power when compared to AMD64, because it runs simpler instructions.

The change to ARM chips on laptops will not make them work like phones, with the exception of much better standby.