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You can add it yourself too :)

FYI, you can use noai.duckduckgo.com to disable AI searches :)

I honestly don't know why smartphones got so powerful and expensive, and why everyone just rolled with it. No one iPhone user needs the hardware that the latest iPhone provides, and I'm sure as hell Apple doesn't even let you push that hardware to its limits. The average Joe just uses an instant messenger app and maybe a few social media apps, and that's it. Who in the world actually needs hardware so powerful and compact on a phone that it is on the verge of experiencing quantum tunneling?

Nope, sadly not.

The Chinese version is now not unlockable at all AFAIK, and the global version became this way after HyperOS came out.

They're sadly not available in my country.

I bought a Redmi phone myself because I had heard that it's really easy to unlock its bootloader.

It isn't.

You have to install their shitty community app, wait for a month, then try your luck applying to unlock your bootloader everyday at exactly 0:00CST because they only take around 2000 applications per day and it resets at that exact time. If you're late one second it tells you that the application quota limit has already been reached. But in my experience, even when I do it at exactly 0:00, I get a random unrelated error thrown at me and if I try again after that I get rate limited for that day. Fuck Xiaomi. I'm probably going to just sell this and get a dumb phone because it just isn't worth it.

I know both terms, I just don't understand the meme.

I don't understand 😥

Sorry, I had just woken up so I missed it 😓. I would suggest asking this in your distro's forum if you still have Linux installed on that laptop.

What GPU does your laptop have?

What phone model is it? You can probably unlock the bootloader and install a de-googled rom, or get root access and de-google it yourself.