• AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    If you are American, you should buy Chinese tech because the Chinese government is more interested in spying on and controlling its own people than you.

    If you are Chinese, you should buy American tech because the American government is more interested in spying on and controlling its own people than you.

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      21 hours ago

      Seems like I’m fucked. Being Chinese-American means the US government is constantly suspicious of me being a “CCP Spy” and also the CCP has overseas illegal “police stations”, I’m getting fucked over by both sides. Just perfect

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      16 hours ago

      Im sure the us uses its tech dominance to sway political opinions one way or another in my country (brazil). And spying on people is a requirement for that. It seems like an attitude in line with the history of the relations between the us and brazil (and countless other countries). China probably tries that too, although i dont have a strong historical evidence for that disposition from china.

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        19 hours ago

        Can you still unlock the bootloader on Xiaomis? It was always a pain, but I’ve read they have completely locked them down now?

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          From what I hear you can either 1. Register with Xiaomi and try to unlock it once a month. 2. Slip a service center worker with special access like 100RMB or buy a pre-unlocked one on taobao. 3. Ask said worker to downgrade firmware, then, before they relock it, snatch phone and run out of the store.

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            6 hours ago
            1. Ask said worker to downgrade firmware, then, before they relock it, snatch phone and run out of the store.

            Lmfao I just saw that video on reddit, it was so bizarre

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          Lol. Which do I use in Vietnam? Serbia? If I’m in Canada and Trump threatens to invade, should I switch to the pixel for a week?