Meanwhile Xiaomi:
https://fixupx.com/kacskrz/status/1814561811951210963

They're really trying to mess with every distribution where their pricing is sane...

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If you have INDIAN Redmi 13C 5G/POCO M6 5G, Redmi 12, Redmi Note 13 5G, Redmi Note 13 Pro 5G/Pro+ 5G, Xiaomi Civi 4 Pro, Redmi Pad Pro 5G and LOCKED bootloader, DON'T TRY FLASHING NON-INDIAN BUILDS, YOU'LL FACE RECOVERY BOOTLOOP LIKE IN CN->Global CASE!!!

I'm gonna disable ? if I see it under presumably (if the responding person understood the question correctly) good news again ?

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It seems Realme started to region lock Indian devices, just like Chinese.

One confirmed model is Realme 12 Pro+. Big chance it'll also affect all OPLUS (Oppo, OnePlus, Realme) devices, so whenever you plan to move out of India and pop another country's SIM, check *\#*\#3932433284\#*\#* to avoid an ugly surprise. A device free of region lock should either have an output exactly like in the image, or the value of state should be 2 (factory locked, but unlocked afterwards). Everything else means it's quite certainly region locked and few reboots with a foreign SIM inside will block your calls in all apps, as long as you're running unaltered stock ROM.

Should've mentioned it earlier, but it turns out the company actually says that "customers wanted it" (or at least that's what they said in a mail). No wonder, as the customers they are targeting seem to be older Germans (and good luck talking about threat…

Should've mentioned it earlier, but it turns out the company actually says that "customers wanted it" (or at least that's what they said in a mail). No wonder, as the customers they are targeting seem to be older Germans (and good luck talking about threat models with them). It looks like to Shift, openness is more about efficiency than a principle.

SHIFTphone 8, the upcoming device from a quite renowned (for its dev-friendliness) German company, will ship with secure boot on. This is contrary to their previous devices. Despite the initiatives like U-Boot and mainlining, only the company itself and an unspecified amount of developers will have an access to secure boot off units. Even if qualifying as a dev may happen to be easy, it's an unnecessary step that seems dictated by the choice to ship GMS.

Buyers deserve a choice of GMS-less, secure boot off units available directly. Getting a Google stamp has a significant per-unit cost, and it's unfair to force the users who don't take advantage of it to lose both that money and a part of their hardware ownership.

The Pixel 8 Pro does NOT support high resolution output for most third party apps. Only the apps reliant on RAW10 streams will be able to capture a 48MP+ photo on P8P. Such an app needs to either output a DNG file only or include built-in processing before being able to save a JPEG or HEIC.

(I won't be posting too often in coming months, don't worry, channel isn't dead)