I’d love to try out some of their products, but my government has banned them.
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I’d love to try out some of their products, but my government has banned them. So much for the land of the free.
even if you got them; you're going to encounter some stupid rules:
i bought at xiaomi phone and i can't use it on most cell phone carriers in the united states because they're banned based on their imea to please uncle sam; so it doesn't matter that it's capable of working, it's just not allowed.
same is true for hearing aids: when i connect them using ordinary bluetooth, they work fine on both my xiaomi and samsung phones; but when i use the recommended software, they only work on the samsung and their tech support told me that they don't work on "banned" hardware like xiaomi or huawei.
i bet, in the near future, huawei's hardware will be banned from connecting to wifi networks based on thier mac address and american smart phones will refuse to share data via hotspot for the same reason.
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even if you got them; you're going to encounter some stupid rules:
i bought at xiaomi phone and i can't use it on most cell phone carriers in the united states because they're banned based on their imea to please uncle sam; so it doesn't matter that it's capable of working, it's just not allowed.
same is true for hearing aids: when i connect them using ordinary bluetooth, they work fine on both my xiaomi and samsung phones; but when i use the recommended software, they only work on the samsung and their tech support told me that they don't work on "banned" hardware like xiaomi or huawei.
i bet, in the near future, huawei's hardware will be banned from connecting to wifi networks based on thier mac address and american smart phones will refuse to share data via hotspot for the same reason.
I do not belive it feasible to police personal consumer WAPs or force mac address filtering on them. Perhaps they will block the mac addresses on govt APs.
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I do not belive it feasible to police personal consumer WAPs or force mac address filtering on them. Perhaps they will block the mac addresses on govt APs.
The rabbit hole I went into to get my smartphone to work in this country has taught me that Google silently placed controls that American carriers wanted into all Android builds since at least version 12 so it's not hard to imagine that the likes of Netgear or Linksys doing something similar to thier home routers in the near future, when Uncle Sam inevitably tells them to.
In at&t's & signia's case: Uncle Sam hasn't said anything yet, they decided to pre-comply out of their own accord; so it doesn't even have to be a law.
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even if you got them; you're going to encounter some stupid rules:
i bought at xiaomi phone and i can't use it on most cell phone carriers in the united states because they're banned based on their imea to please uncle sam; so it doesn't matter that it's capable of working, it's just not allowed.
same is true for hearing aids: when i connect them using ordinary bluetooth, they work fine on both my xiaomi and samsung phones; but when i use the recommended software, they only work on the samsung and their tech support told me that they don't work on "banned" hardware like xiaomi or huawei.
i bet, in the near future, huawei's hardware will be banned from connecting to wifi networks based on thier mac address and american smart phones will refuse to share data via hotspot for the same reason.
I've been running various distros off my Huawei Matebook 14 in the US for years with zero issues.
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I've been running various distros off my Huawei Matebook 14 in the US for years with zero issues.
Couple of years ago I was looking at them and razer for a new laptop. I ended up going with razer simply because I could t find the laptop I wanted without a touchscreen and in my mind touchscreens were less crisp than non-touchscreens. How does your experience hold up?
It’s about time for me to upgrade laptops again, been like 6 years lol
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Couple of years ago I was looking at them and razer for a new laptop. I ended up going with razer simply because I could t find the laptop I wanted without a touchscreen and in my mind touchscreens were less crisp than non-touchscreens. How does your experience hold up?
It’s about time for me to upgrade laptops again, been like 6 years lol
Mine's the 2020 AMD model, does everything I need it to do and it's still going strong. Build quality is great and I love the high quality 2160 x 1440 display. Overall, it's been a far better experience that the Dell XPS I had previously, which started giving me issues after just a couple of years.
I bought it when I was living in Asia, though. Now I'm in the US, I honestly don't know what replacement I'd pick up if it died tomorrow.
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I've been running various distros off my Huawei Matebook 14 in the US for years with zero issues.
my xiaomi is clearly far superior than the other phones i've had at this price point and i want to stick with that brand for as long as i can now that i know what to do to get them to work in this country.
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even if you got them; you're going to encounter some stupid rules:
i bought at xiaomi phone and i can't use it on most cell phone carriers in the united states because they're banned based on their imea to please uncle sam; so it doesn't matter that it's capable of working, it's just not allowed.
same is true for hearing aids: when i connect them using ordinary bluetooth, they work fine on both my xiaomi and samsung phones; but when i use the recommended software, they only work on the samsung and their tech support told me that they don't work on "banned" hardware like xiaomi or huawei.
i bet, in the near future, huawei's hardware will be banned from connecting to wifi networks based on thier mac address and american smart phones will refuse to share data via hotspot for the same reason.
banned from connecting to wifi networks based on thier mac address
MAC addresses are easy to spoof in a Linux PC though. So you can workaround that.
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Mine's the 2020 AMD model, does everything I need it to do and it's still going strong. Build quality is great and I love the high quality 2160 x 1440 display. Overall, it's been a far better experience that the Dell XPS I had previously, which started giving me issues after just a couple of years.
I bought it when I was living in Asia, though. Now I'm in the US, I honestly don't know what replacement I'd pick up if it died tomorrow.
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banned from connecting to wifi networks based on thier mac address
MAC addresses are easy to spoof in a Linux PC though. So you can workaround that.
It's also illegal in my country
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my xiaomi is clearly far superior than the other phones i've had at this price point and i want to stick with that brand for as long as i can now that i know what to do to get them to work in this country.
i got my xiaomi for free so even I wanted to do the same, but xiaomi and hyperos have alot of limitations
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i got my xiaomi for free so even I wanted to do the same, but xiaomi and hyperos have alot of limitations
i haven't noticed any and i learned yesterday that i'm must put a custom rom on it to get it to work in this country; so there's room for modification if something doesn't work for you.
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