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Xiaomi will reportedly end its global bootloader unlock program (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I wonder why they're doing this? I don't miss the era of locked bootloaders, though I preferred that to the modern difficulty of passing safetynet checks with root. Lately that's a bigger problem than bootloader unlocking ever was iirc.