The ones with EOL 2015, fair play. But May 2024 isn’t all that long ago.

Edit: Looks like those were launched in early 2015. I guess requesting users to update devices after 8+ years might not be too far fetched.

Source: https://www.dlink.com/rs/sr/press-centre/press-releases/2015/february/04/unified_services_router_dsr_150n

Can highly recommend ASUS, most of their models can be flashed with custom firmware that is supported beyond EOL. And their EOL cycle is also pretty long.

I mean, there are sellers on Taobao and such that sell imported versions from HK and Japan, but I doubt that’s what the majority does. Most locals probably never get tempted to install some Western apps that won’t work without a VPN anyway, and if they have the knowledge and skills to install and use one, they know what to look for.

In China you simply keep your birth name forever, and children always follow the paternal side. That’s why having a male heir is important there, because a woman will only bear offspring for her spouse’s family.

As to why the family bonds are so strong, it’s part cultural (your elders are always right and must not be criticised, and you must take care of your blood above anything else), part societal - parents work too much (60-100h weekly), so children are generally raised by their grandparents, which strengthens the bond across generations. And because the pension system is totally insufficient, grandparents will at some point typically move in with their kids, so people are used to live in a multi generational household.

By the way, China is just one example, there are even Western countries where it’s not possible to change the names, such as Luxembourg.

Yeah that “AI” was probably quoting some edgelord from reddit.

In several countries it’s simply not possible, and the family bonds are strong as elsewhere, if not stronger. China for example, family is above everything there, and you can’t change names under any circumstances.

Hah, same on every single account.

Beats ‘patiently sit in a corner and wait to bleed dry’.

Crap. I got OnePlus 7 pro and 10 pro in China and could still unlock them easily, haven’t checked since.

It’s the same crap as Twitter, I don’t get why people ever used it in the first place.

Plenty of foreigners live in China and sign up with smaller lemmy instances that aren’t blocked (yet). lemmy.world (and funny enough,.ml) are. I also chose mine because it wasn’t blocked, spent almost 7 years in China and only left in July.

That’s only on their local android varieties though. That looks like a Xiaomi/Redmi phone? In that case head over to xiaomi.eu, download the EU version of the ROM, and flash it following the instructions there, it’s very straightforward.

With Oppo and OnePlus phones it’s equally simple, there are a ton of how-to’s over on https://forum.xda-developers.com/ for all models. If you stay in China, best get their Indian ROMs, the EU ones have some mobile bands inactive that are not in use there, but are in Asia.

For other phone manufacturers, it’s anywhere between trivial and impossible (Huawei for example). Xda-dev is your best source of info usually.

Lemmy often racks up hundreds of gigabytes in logs and other crap, chokes up the hard drive, and then force restarts the server. Not fun for something you use to stream media from. Takes quite some tuning to get it sorted.

If we are talking about two virtual machines on the same physical server with dedicated storage allocation, that shouldn’t matter.

That keeps getting cited in western media, but it’s really not the case. The obsession with bloodlines is true; however it is illegal here (I live in China, my wife is Chinese) to reveal the gender prior to birth; and punished severely. It’s still possible to find a doctor and bribe them, however the risk is so high that not many are able to pay up. I’ve heard numbers of up to 30k USD (!) going around (and that’s in today’s money), which is easily 2-3x the annual salary of a local worker.

So while the top ~10% or something could have afforded it, it was in fact much easier to just have a second kid and just hide it with some relatives in a village who’d pretend it was theirs. All the good it did to enforce the one child policy was to have a ton of unaccounted offspring running around in the countryside.

Current statistics show that 48.99% of Chinese are female vs. 51.01% male, while the global statistic is 50.49% male vs. 49.51% female. (That’s the global figure including China, so it’s a bit distorted, but not by a huge margin).

TL;DR: While there are a bit fewer women in China than the global average, it’s not really a relevant concern.

You’re delusional. Seek help.

I’m sure leaving reddit was a good idea, but joining lemmy might not have been. People here are just delusional in their approach to reality.

Github does the same. You can’t unfollow threads without logging in.

The update without fail tells me it doesn’t work due to non-standard folders being present. So, I delete ‘temp’. After the upgrade is done, it tells me that ‘temp’ is missing and required.

Other than that it’s quite stable though… Unless you dare to have long file names or folder depths.

The only advantage I see are movies, but then again for a static display I can just use my laptop or a TV.

I guess gaming could be something, if you’re into that. Personally all those microtransaction BS makes me steer clear of wanting any games on my phone.

Yep but luckily most of them stick to instances that I can fully ignore.