Chinese ROMs come without support for many languages. Even when using English there are still things which are in Chinese.
The people selling the devices on AliExpress are selling then with a “global rom”. The issue here is that the rom doesn’t exist officially. So no updates are available and you don’t know what’s actually inside it.
xiaomi.eu provide a modified version of the Chinese rom with language support and some other things. The issue is they charge for this through patreon for any mediatek devices. You have to keep paying if you want security updates. This is immoral and probably illegal as they don’t own MIUI or Android and copyleft is designed to prevent this kind of thing.
To add insult to injury they started offering some mediatek roms for free. When people stopped paying the patreon they removed them from the download sites.
Shame on them and shame on the AliExpress sellers. If anyone knows a good course on building android roms and reverse engineering them let me know. Maybe I can fix this situation.
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Will remove this when ya see it. Any mods alerted to this post? Sorry, didn’t expect you here, will remove right away.
Regarding that comment removal (entire comment section now locked) - tone policing is in their rules.
Felatio isn’t as bad as suicide I’ll give ya that. Anyway more practically:
It may be quite freeing to let your heart out on 4chan. Gotta take care scrolling in case someone’s posting NSFL/etc. but a board like /b/ is nearly lawless.
May also be some anything-goes communities here but not sure if they’re available to our instances. You’re pretty technical, creating your own instance would be a power move - you da boss. (Part time job though keeping up with security updates maybe?)
Appreciate your responsiveness to my feedback earlier btw.