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   iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 04:05:33 JST iced depresso

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   • Felix Palmen :freebsd: :c64:
   @zirias i'm told there is an actual reason every chinese manufacturer does this bullshit now. something to do with a grey market of market flippers.
   
   i remain unimpressed by the excuse though.
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     Felix Palmen :freebsd: :c64: (zirias@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 04:05:35 JST Felix Palmen :freebsd: :c64:

     #Rooting a new #Xiaomi device is getting totally ridiculous these days.

     I already jumped through the hoop to "request bootloader unlock permission" in one of Xiaomi's #bloatware apps at **EXACTLY** midnight beijing time, at least this worked. Now the second step would be to actually unlock the boot loader. On #FreeBSD, I can't use Xiaomi's unlocker tool (but I guess that's actually a good thing), so I found some python script that also works (after a bit of fiddling with it, patching shebang and removing some nonsense), and see what it tells me now.

     Xiaomi, you used to be cool, a long time ago... 🙄