Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoXi Jinping jokes about backdoors in Xiaomi smartphoneswww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up166arrow-down12
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minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 days agoI’d love a free open source linux on my xiaomi. I mean I can probably use an older phone for my banking app, the rest is like firefox and chess, ah and yeah and the Leica camera 😑I wonder if it’s something extra difficult to port over to linux.
minus-squareunexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoTo unlock the bootloader on xiaomi devices you need to install some chinese piece of software on your computer.
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoThat’s a start, I bet smarter people than me will figure out how to make that okay.
minus-squareOnomatopoeia@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoPut it in a VM using any of the current free virtualization products: 86Box, VMware Workstation, etc.
I’d love a free open source linux on my xiaomi.
I mean I can probably use an older phone for my banking app, the rest is like firefox and chess, ah and yeah and the Leica camera 😑I wonder if it’s something extra difficult to port over to linux.
To unlock the bootloader on xiaomi devices you need to install some chinese piece of software on your computer.
That’s a start, I bet smarter people than me will figure out how to make that okay.
Put it in a VM using any of the current free virtualization products: 86Box, VMware Workstation, etc.