• emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    For a given price range, Xiaomi hardware is probably the best in the world. And MIUI is built to maximise battery life and do more with less RAM and CPU. But this comes at the price of MIUI being very brittle and unable to handle modifications.

    On the other hand, Xiaomi has good support for custom ROMs. So you can buy their phones, and immediately switch to a ROM of your choice (at the cost of losing MIUI’s efficiency).

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      1 year ago

      Well, not quite immediately. You have to wait a few weeks for them to unlock your bootloader

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        1 year ago

        72h irc, had a Xiaomi or subbrand of them twice now. Good hardware for the price, just bring your own software.