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That's pretty much spot on (more generally, I think it's a Central-American thing). Either "pelotas" or "bolas" are the common ones in South America (huevos is present, but rarely used in the same way—"huevón" is the classic insult used throughout).
Not at all. Huevos is the preferred term in Argentina/Uruguay.
Just wait till they: - start encrypting all the data they collect (with real encryption, not base64 encoding) - saving up the data for hours or days at time and sending it in bursts (so there is no immediate connection to a remote server) - sending the data to plausible U.S.-registered domains (rather than to Singapore and Russia) - monitoring at the kernel or firmware level so that it doesn't matter what browser or…
Why would they go to all that trouble? Just 1. keep sending any and all data without any obfuscation 2. blanket denial of any wrong doing, regardless of how obvious 3. decent hardware for zero down on a contract profit!!! your way is so much more work...
Stuff like this is why without fail, every phone I own gets LineageOS installed immediately. Xiaomi phones have a bootloader unlock timer to try and mitigate sites reselling their phones with modified software, so I had to leave my Mix 2s alone for a few days before I could make it safe to use.
Are there any resources describing what you lose and gain by installing LineageOS? I'd like to know what will stop working before I try it out...
Is there even a single way to run lineageos without making significant tradeoffs?
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I remember back in the days of the iPhone 3G(s?) there was an attempt at a battery-powered dongle that could re-jailbreak a phone in the field in case of a reboot. The same technology could be built into a battery case or similar, not to mention recent technological advances mean it can be done in a small package the size of a Lightning connector or a Yubikey and you can carry it on your keyring.
Does this mean you'd have to walk around with an unlocked bootloader all the time?
The dongle idea I'm talking about would be to have a convenient way to exploit the vulnerability for the benefit of the user to boot the device into a jailbroken mode in case of an unexpected restart (battery runs out and you're away from your computer).
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Other than the tracking, would you recommend it? Is LineageOS available? I've been curious about trying a Chinese phone for a while, but would only do it if Lineage is available, since I'm annoyed by anything more busy than stock Android.
LineageOS supports a lot of different Xiaomi devices: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/#xiaomi I have a tissot with LineageOS 16.0, not sure yet whether it will get 17 ported to it as well. The hardware is great for the price (bought it a year after launch, heavily discounted). I bought it specifically to run LineageOS on it, so I have no idea what the stock experience is like.
Xiaomi produces one of the best bang for your bucks hardware in the market. Their software is crap though. Ads in the system apps, ui customization that arguably looks worse than stock android, and now blanket tracking like this, though it was always pinging their tracking servers frequently. My pihole logs pretty much full with blocked xiaomi requests until I flashed the phone. Best thing to do when you got an andro…
I have Redmi phone and I hates it as soon as I found that there is ads in their rom. It's so disappointing. I mean, other Chinese brand have their own crapware yes, but ads?
I then flash my phone to pure Pixel rom and never been happier, until the bank app incident happened. So I have to use their original rom for now until I get a new phone.
No matter how rave the Mi phone review be, or how it is great 'bang for the bucks' brand, I will never touch their phone again.
How does Windows 10 compare? It also tracks and reports which websites you visit, but maybe it doesn't in private browsing mode? Edit: People asking for sources, go to Settings -> Diagnostics & Feedback. See the part where it says "Send ... info about websites you browse"? You might also be interested in the setting below it; when you enable it "Microsoft will collect samples of the content you type"[1]. [1] https://…
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