my xiaomi is clearly far superior than the other phones i've had at this price point and i want to stick with that brand for as long as i can now that i know what to do to get them to work in this country.
eldavi
joined 2 years ago
The rabbit hole I went into to get my smartphone to work in this country has taught me that Google silently placed controls that American carriers wanted into all Android builds since at least version 12 so it's not hard to imagine that the likes of Netgear or Linksys doing something similar to the stock firmware of thier home routers in the near future, when Uncle Sam inevitably tells them to.
In at&t's & signia's case: Uncle Sam hasn't said anything yet, they decided to pre-comply out of their own accord; so it doesn't even have to be a law.
even if you got them; you're going to encounter some stupid rules:
i bought at xiaomi phone and i can't use it on most cell phone carriers in the united states because they're banned based on their imea to please uncle sam; so it doesn't matter that it's capable of working, it's just not allowed.
same is true for hearing aids: when i connect them using ordinary bluetooth, they work fine on both my xiaomi and samsung phones; but when i use the recommended software, they only work on the samsung and their tech support told me that they don't work on "banned" hardware like xiaomi or huawei.
i bet, in the near future, huawei's hardware will be banned from connecting to wifi networks based on thier mac address and american smart phones will refuse to share data w then via hotspot for the same reason.
I'm glad to learn that this is a thing; I've been doing my own cloud like service, VPN and backups using my own home built router/server and the consensus on both Reddit and Lemmy is that I'm foolish for doing so.
Thank you for making me aware that there are others like me so feel about relying on profit seeing parties the same way.
prepper.. as in doomsday prepping?
More like supplanted one form of fascism with a softer, gentler kind of fascism.
it's just their drip; they're lowkey cringe irl. lol
you don't have to follow a wiki anymore; there are distro's out there that specialize in repairing broken bootloaders using a point-and-click interface and they're great if you're as lazy as i am. lol