It had lots of bugs and crashes back last year, but considerably improved. Flawless backups/restore, A13. It’s almost a replacement for titanium now.

Awesome recap. Telegram dev channels and xda used to be a place to spread the message so that users would pressure the company to fulfill their gpl duty.

On a side note Fuck Asus for screwing bootloader unlocking for the zenfone.

Is titback still functional? Had many issues on A13

Another reason to root. Then Neobackup.

Confuse the consumer and make it harder to make informed decisions. “Just trust our recommendations, choom”.

I know lots of people will say it’s useless bla bla bla, but hear me out. Xiaomi still allows bootloader unlocking, this means you can remove their spyware firmwaew and put a decent AOSP alternative, with “unlimited” updates, or add support via postmarketOS.
This phone will be future proofed for a decade, as people said the same thing about phones with 6GB/8GB ofnl RAMs a decade ago.

Did they something in their recent API? How come OS van kill background apps if battery set to unrestricted?

Look up the recent drama with Asus. They halted their bootloader unlockong server (which should exist) since mid-last year.

You can install proton on any linux distro. I game AAA on my arch distribution. Look into Heroic Launcher.

Can you root? Does it have rom support?

I love everything about the zenfones except Asus not allowing bootloader unlocking. Deal breaker.

Reminder that Xiaomi at least allows you to unlock your phone (albeit after 1 week of waiting), and they have decent ROM support.

It’s also crazy how there is this push from all OEM to remove headphone jack and force consumers to use wireless earphones, further making the attack surface much wider.

In 2017 I got myself a lenovo tab 8", Android 6, 3GB of RAM for less than 120€. Thanks to AOSP, I got it on Android 10, and it’s still kicking 6 years later. Get tablets that you can own! (ie Unlock bootloader).

The reason I am asking, if you ever use AOSP on Xiaomi devices, stock camera is shit. You can’t use Xaomi cam, so you’ll need Gcam.

How’s the camera? Any gcams with good quality?

The NPU performance is very interesting on the 8G3. 20 tokens/s for Llama2 and <1s for Stable diffusion.

I wouldn’t call it a flagship, but Xiaomi 9T Pro is the closest you can get without a punchhole. Plenty of ROMs, and great gcam support.

Sony is very ROM-friendly. Main issue is price, which affects active development. My wishlist is similar to yours, I ended always going with Xiaomi. While their 7 days wait to unlock bootloader is annoying, the ROM scene is very active, with great GCam ports.

but since then vulnerabilities have still been found

After the war began, Telegram also agreed to send user data to Russian authorities when requested for it.

Do you have sources?