• I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    9 hours ago

    Has more bloatware than samsung and more spyware than facebook. Not the person you talked with first, but I also have a xiaomi and it’s borderline unusable if you don’t use adb to uninstall some of the ad shit. They throw ads on gallery, video player, music player, wallpaper, calculator, file browse.

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      7 hours ago

      Did you get one of the really cheap ones? I have heard they are cheap for a reason (e.g. they get the money from elsewhere, AKA selling you).

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        7 hours ago

        I wish that was a problem exclusive to the cheaper phones or even xiaomi. I’ve had a Samsung Galaxy S20, it came with so much fucking bullshit apps. My gf and her sister both have a mid-high xiaomi (dunno about the specific model), ads are every-fucking-where.

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            8 hours ago

            It does, the international version comes with google play and the store and everything, it’s a typical android phone like what you get from motorola or samsung, with a custom UI and lots of bloatware

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                7 hours ago

                Probably a “Notes” xiaomi (or cheaper even), cheap and with publicity. I have the “flagship killer” (whatever that means) and there is 1 publicity in the file manager. I use FX so I don’t care personally.

                If you tinker a minimum (like installing an app) it’s extremely well worth the money compared to samsung or worse, apple. IMO.

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                  7 hours ago

                  i dont think we are talking about like, phone performance so much as the level of evil associated with the corporation provided by the platform, i use grapheneOS which is degoogled android because google is super evil, and apple is evil too, but they’re a minor evil by comparison to google