Obviously you should never pay for a device where they won't support you, the owner, unlocking the bootloader, but obviously people do. I'm not sure if Xiaomi are one of the manufacturers that do not support it.

I don't have a lot of use for it, but I think their load balancer could be better, so hopefully this will happen now.

Yes. Thery may do badly, but this isn't going to be much of a problem for China for ages. They are unlikely to do that badly though - among 2 billion people there will be plenty of good people.

Their much bigger problem though is their lack of access to cutting edge semi-conductor manufacturing technology. I imagine they are on this though, probably through industrial espionage (invading Taiwan would help, but they will face similar issues for acccess to tech long term unless they also get access to ASML work I think).

I think for any POSIX system, either there is locale support defining the encoding, or it uses the POSIX locale, which defines the encoding (ASCII).

Of course you need to handle cases where filenames cannot be decoded in the system encoding (probably by replacing characters that cannot be decoded), because a filename in a different encoding, or even with no valid encoding, has been used on disk. While systems can say that file names containing bytes that are not valid characters in the system's encoding are not valid file names, that doesn't stop people mounting disks with them, so the problem never goes away if you support opening media from other systems.

What I am saying is that this is no more a Unix problem than it is a problem on any system that supports removable media.

Edit: reading other comments, it looks like their block size is only 64KiB, so this isn't the case, so I don't know the answer. I can only think that perhaps it is an issue because ZFS doesn't deallocate the freed blocks quickly enough and they are making changes fast, meaning a significant amount of disk space is used by blocks that are about to be TRIMed but haven't been yet.

You can also get an amateur radio license, and use frequency not normally used for this, but that probably means using SDR as most devices designed to use LTE will only work on normal LTE bands etc.

No bribes, connections, or anything shady etc needed.

Also, some numbers in finger binary are liable to get you punched if shown the wrong way round.

All that said, I'm not confident that anyone will stop them in court anyway. This hasn't tenmded to be very easy when companies infringe other open source code copyright terms.

Until it is cleared up though, it would seem extremely unwise for anyone to use any code from it.