For some reason, I feel this particular incident is the perfect zeitgeist of our times.
An anecdote that children from the 22nd century will be reading about - beginning of the 21st century; the early information age.
this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2025
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Interesting point. Care to expand on what exactly about this incident makes you say that?
I guess it reminds me of the random snippets from newspaper articles and caricatures (from the relevant period) when I was studying 20th century European history in early high school.
It's seems to succinctly communicate major developments of our time. A Chinese phone (#3 globally by shipments) leveraging world class Korean components, Xi making an ironic statement about digital privacy both in context of China and democratic-leaning countries.
I am probably overthinking. :)
Irony is so pervasive in these times.
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.
Their brand name is Xi-Ow~~ns~~-Me.