Xiaomi won't give Android updates if you unlock your bootloader

ijeff@lemdro.idmod to Android@lemdro.id – 164 points – Xiaomi makes it harder to unlock your bootloader, stops Android updates if you do
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cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/3017869 (!xiaomi@lemdro.id)

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The only spyware you should be concerned about is that from your own country. That's the country that can actually do things against you with the information. What are you worried about "China" doing with your chats or metadata on which apps are open?

Word. All this China is a big brother fails account for the fact that most states today are big brothers. It's only a matter of degree.

It's worse than that. All this China big brother talk is just a variant of xenophobia. It's a talking point they've been trained to slam their foreign "enemies" about without ever thinking about it at all of what the actual harm they're concerned about would look like.