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OP's phone runs MiUI, so it would be easy to unlock. You register a Mi account with an active SIM and either wait 3-7 days as asked, or use one of those scripts that intercepts the unlock request and gives you the key.

Newer Xiaomi devices run HyperOS, which is much harder to unlock and there are no exploits as far as I know.

From 2027-28, they will also tattoo a crescent on the foreheads of students from offending communities. For easier identification, of course.

The following year, they will go to separate schools to learn more about European culture.

After that, they will go to a special work camp to learn useful skills. This solution will be quite final, so no more steps will be required.

There will have to be a reckoning somewhere. There simply isn't enough electricity in any country except China to power data centres at the scale they are being proposed. As to who will end up holding the bag, you are probably right. I wouldn't be surprised if the contracts between companies and the municipalities are designed to let the companies get away, either through limitations on liabilities, binding arbitration, or some other legal trick.

In addition to what others have said, the boundaries between these can change according to the society and time. Fifty years ago, a computer would have been 'private property'. Nowadays most computers are 'personal'.

Whether you can own a house or a couple of acres under a hypothetical socialist system would mainly depend on population density. The Soviets used to give young people large tracts of land in rural areas because land isn't really a scarce resource in Russia. (Vietnam still does this, but the plots are smaller.) On the other hand, Singapore, a capitalist country, has no private land ownership because land is so scarce.

OS ads, website ads or app ads?

  • For OS ads, it depends on the manufacturer. Some don't have ads. For Xiaomi devices, ads can be completely removed by disabling a single app. Avoid anything by Samsung.
  • For ads on websites, use Firefox with uBlock.
  • App ads are the hardest to remove. You can try blocking ad domains at the OS level, or disable ads in each app's settings (if they give you that option).
on academic jargon · c/science_memes · 21 pts · 2d

I've always associated 'memory' with RAM. HDDs and SSDs are 'storage'. (And the average user probably shouldn't have to know what EEPROMs are.)