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[–] ransomwarelettuce 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Motorolas are cool for custom roms and Xiaomi are pretty open for a chinese brand.

However don't go to non snapdragon chips and the latter brand you have to create a Xiaomi account and wait 15 days to unlock the bootloader.

I had to get a new phone recently and since I was on a budget, went with a Motorola.

If got enough money though go for a pixel.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Xiaomi are pretty open for a chinese brand.

Be warned, they just restricted their bootloader unlocking even more. Now you can only unlock 1 device a year. The waiting period annoyed me so much at the time, for my Redmi Note 8 Pro I had to wait 168h, 1 week. I'm not doing that anymore.

[–] ransomwarelettuce 3 points 1 day ago

Fuck them then, always hated the 15 days. Now by chance even more no way I buying or recommending them again.