Mastodawn

fuck off.

imagine if windows required you to wait 24hrs before you could install programs outside of the MS store.

your phone is a computer, and this is an anti-competitive move that has the intentional side effect of incentivizing consumers to install apps from google instead of other markets.

“you can’t do this!”

“but i’ve always been able to do this!”

waits a year

“fine, but now you have to wait 24 hours because because because i said so!”

“oh! well in that case, i guess it’s not so bad!”

everyone that is happy about this is an easily manipulated buttbrain

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luna the doggie

@vozercozer oh baseline android is reaching "Xiaomi bootloader unlock" levels of bullshit for just installing apps great

I guess this is the "phishing-resistant measures" they were talking about.

fuck google.

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gravitos

Mar 20

@lunareclipse notably, 2017 xiaomi bootloader unlock. 2026 xiaomi bootloader unlock is a waiting line for digital keys, where there are only 200 keys per day reset at 12am chinese local time, and in that way its more comparable to

uhh

trying to buy a new iPhone on the launch day?

my guess is it won't be long until Google will start giving these signatures out only to those who themselves verified their google accounts with an ID, or something like that. hopefully we'll have a way to bypass this altogether by then - i'll have to do some experiments once this rolls out, maybe i'll find something

@gravitos @vozercozer oh did they make it even worse?

Last time I remember I could use my existing Xiaomi account that got the bootloader unlock perms (which were exactly as hard to get as what you describe) but I had to have the sim card with its phone number in the phone, log into the phone, enable OEM unlock and wait 3 days. I was able to use the SIM in another phone if I only removes it when the Xiaomi was turned off though.

Granted that was a humongous level of bullshit and I decided I'm not buying a Xiaomi again after that.