I wanted to use it a bit before I make an update but then I forgot about it 😅

I think I’ll make a seperate post about it and I’ll reply to this comment again with the link but I just started work, so I don’t have time right now.

The way it works is that you need a proprietary app (in the past it was on PC and you had to connect the phone over USB, now it’s an app on the phone) where you log in with the Xiaomi Account that is also logged in on your phone. Then you “request” a bootloader unlock and after a week or so you can do the same thing again and it unlocks the bootloader. My guess would be that it uses encryption on the phone in some way and the server sends the decryption key. I also just thought that the process is so tedious that someone should have come up with a way to circumvent it already but maybe no one wanted to invest the time since it was possible that way. Either way, I don’t have experience with this kind of thing, so I’m not really the person to figure it out.

But what will the shareholders do without my hard work? 😔

That would be huge

Based on how much HyperOS (and the fucking name) sucks, I wouldn’t be surprised if someone finds a way to unlock the bootloader. I really hope someone does soon because I really don’t want my dad to continue getting tortured by having to use it.

But real talk, I’m actually scared of the consequences of climate change that I’m going to see in my lifetime. I lost all hope that we’ll ever become carbon neutral under capitalism, it’s already being used as nothing more than a marketing term by companies.

I don’t think I’ll live long enough to ever retire 🥳🥰

so the store won’t need to pay for cashiers just standing around.

Aren’t walmart employees also required to stand all day? Kinda insane to me that they’re not allowed to just sit down

So that’s why unlocking the bootloader on my dad’s phone doesn’t work. This really sucks, I hope there’s some other way to do it because HyperOS is straight ass.

What you’re seeing is the best economic system ever created in action