There’s a certain “people’s republic” where they introduced a new government signature on all android apps. For “safety”, as they “check” the apps for you 😉
For now it can be bypassed after three pages of scary warnings but in the future?
Maybe it could be a big reason of why they’re liking harmony os that much, you don’t need to manually approve android apps if android apps are completely unsupported
Why have we given juggalos so much power?
Because there’s magic everywhere in this bitch
Hot lava, snow, rain, and fog. Long-neck giraffes and pet cats and dogs.
B A R S
It was always going to end this way.
It must run on magnets.
ICP - The Loons
Well you bought a Chinese phone. The Chinese government likes to restrict what its people see like all authoritarian governments.
Get something with stock Android or iOS. Better yet, go foss droid
pixel with a custom ROM for OG freedom lovers!
I feel your pain. Went to have a wank last night before bed and went to pornhub and my state government wants to verify age via ID card. So pornhub just said fuck that shit and my ip address is blocked from visiting the lovely site. Am sad
VPN?
Or just use tor. Be careful when searching nsfw stuff mind you.
True, forgot about Tor.
As someone who doesn’t know tor well, why be careful? Just the normal prudence when looking up xxx, or something specific to tor?
Depending on what search engine you use. One that also searches .onion addresses. You could end up finding some illegal nsfw material.
Thanks
Isn’t that too slow for streaming video?
Yeah, good point
VPN works just fine, as long as you can set your location. I know this because some sites are blocked in my area, and I can get to them when I change my location in my VPN.
So, have you bitched at your state rep about it yet?
Oh you though state bitch works for you? You got it backwards.
State Rep is corpo bitch. Better take the complain to porn hub, they would then order state bitch to fix it.
You just gotta send an email with videos and pictures of you having a wank that only say “This won’t stop until I can watch porn freely again” .
Why, this idea could never backfire
Plot twist: now I’m a porn hub contributor
Plot twist twist: I get famous even if for the wrong reasons ( I’m not sure what the right reason would be anymore, but I’m not judging)
Plot twist twist twist: I get a lawyer to licence my content and now I’m an artist, living from royalties and tv show appearances.
Like they’d listen. I’m in Oklahoma, liberals don’t have a voice here.
Xnxx and xvideos don’t give a shit where you live friend.
Texas?
Oklahoma 🙃
Oof sorry to hear that, friend 😞
Can you get some of the native legislation in on this? Would be hilarious if pornhub was available on the reservation but not in the rest of Oklahoma.
Tor
For Tor to work, you have to reduce your security settings, and allow javascript; that’s not generally a good idea when you’re using Tor. Even when you do that, the network is slow enough that videos don’t seem to complete loading. (I just checked.)
Would mobile data work? Websites always think I’m in Colorado
They just want to see your face before you masturbate. ;)
Wait until they start demanding an “after” picture.
At least your country is down with the clown.
Fucking phones, how do they work?
Whoop Whoop
Where do you live that you are being governed by the Insane Clown Posse?
Suburban Michigan
Juggalopolis.
People’s Republic of the Clown.
shepooh regime
Infamous Cave of Pooh
I need to know where this is so I can make sure I’m very far away from where this is
China
Why did you even buy a phone meant for the Chinese market in the first place?
Could live in China.
Odd since he is on an Italian-speaking instance
Could be a descendant of Marco Polo.
Might want to get out of china.
Plenty of foreigners live in China and sign up with smaller lemmy instances that aren’t blocked (yet). lemmy.world (and funny enough,.ml) are. I also chose mine because it wasn’t blocked, spent almost 7 years in China and only left in July.
Okay, then the question becomes “you moved to an oppressive authoritarian regime and are surprised they are oppressive and authoritarian?”.
China also ends in-a the vowel!
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Presumably because it’s much cheaper.
There are reasons why it’s cheaper, and none of them improve your life.
There are plent of cheap chinese phones supported by lineage os tho.
Eh BIOS level rootkits have been around for a while. If uncle sam wants to watch you, believe me they will, just the same way uncle china does.
Uncle Winnie
Well today it’s maybe a bad idea (I havent really digged through it all recently but it seems to be a not good idea), but back in the day Xiaomi was the beast phone for cheap, with all the bells & whistles like swappable battery, sd card, good CPU & RAM etc. for a fraction of the cost of an iPhone or Samsung.
So well, time changes!
My 5 year old Xiaomi I got for €350 has about the same specs as an iPhone 16, except for the much better chip in the iPhone.
Don’t buy Xiaomi.
I used MIUI.EU on Xiaomi phones for some years and it was pretty great (and inexpensive). But I wouldn’t suggest it in the USA because the carriers here don’t always play nice with them.
“This app hasn’t been checked for third party spyware along with our official trusted spyware. Proceed with caution.”
I’ve got your ICP registration info right here baby WOOP WOOP
Have you tried yelling " WHOOP WHOOP" at it?
Terrain. Terrain. PULL. UP!
WINDSHEAR! WINDSHEAR!
China, what a bastion of freedom.
There’s like 5 governments doing full dragnet surveillance in the world, wonder if one can send an interesting enough dickpic to warrant a UNSC joint session
Fucking Smart Phones, how do they work?
That’s only on their local android varieties though. That looks like a Xiaomi/Redmi phone? In that case head over to xiaomi.eu, download the EU version of the ROM, and flash it following the instructions there, it’s very straightforward.
With Oppo and OnePlus phones it’s equally simple, there are a ton of how-to’s over on https://forum.xda-developers.com/ for all models. If you stay in China, best get their Indian ROMs, the EU ones have some mobile bands inactive that are not in use there, but are in Asia.
For other phone manufacturers, it’s anywhere between trivial and impossible (Huawei for example). Xda-dev is your best source of info usually.
More recent Xiaomi phones for the Chinese market have locked bootloaders. Their European counterparts can still be unlocked, but they have tightened that as well, supposedly because the CCP told them to.
Typing this on a Poco F6.
Crap. I got OnePlus 7 pro and 10 pro in China and could still unlock them easily, haven’t checked since.
Global users can unlock Xiaomi phones, but have to jump through more hoops and deal with restrictions. For example, there now seems to be a daily limit on how many devices their server accepts to unlock. Took me three tries to be successful in the “first come, first serve” line.
Afaik, Chinese users are now dependent on paid services to unlock their phonew for them. How they get around the official restrictions? I don’t know.
I mean, there are sellers on Taobao and such that sell imported versions from HK and Japan, but I doubt that’s what the majority does. Most locals probably never get tempted to install some Western apps that won’t work without a VPN anyway, and if they have the knowledge and skills to install and use one, they know what to look for.
Can you install a jailbreak OS, or is that not allowed for “safety”?
In this specific case can do it but the bootloader unlock request must come from a Chinese ip address, from a verified Chinese number (get otp code via SMS) and wait like one month
And I bet this process is going to add you to some list of people to keep an eye on.
Since when do they have those rules? A year ago I unlocked my Xiaomi phone. Outside China. Did not have a Chinese phone number. It took less than an hour.
But it’s global version or China version?
China version ROM is like this since the mi 6, the excuse was “limiting grey market sales”
Also the ROM now uses a different signature so from mi 5 onwards, flashing global ROM on china version, doesn’t allow to lock the bootloader again (you can send the command to lock it, but then you get a softbrick)
Different for chinese and non Chinese markets I guess
