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Five offspring not fitting in my punnet square! 🤨

Communist cute kitten, I do not advise you get a Huawei phone with HarmonyOS unless you are actually fluent in Chinese, based in China, and not interested in apps outside China. Given your name, 可爱小猫, you might be fluent. But given your use of Lemmy, I doubt you are a mainland local.

HarmonyOS latest update is a fully localized OS that uses a localized app store and can only run a few non-Chinese apps in a virtual machine, with restricted memory access. If that appeals to you, go for it.

Edit: Huawei is a special case. It has been heavily sanctioned and has cut ties to the Android ecosystem. Oppo / Oneplus phones are available in China variant, and they run Android. They are pretty much the same as a local phone, as long as your cell provider doesn't IMEI blacklist you. Mine runs on Canadian wireless providers when I'm in Canada.

Good strategic analysis.

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If you buy a mainland China phone the app store will be local, for example Oppo store, and Play will be only available as a workaround. I think mainland app stores will be unaffected by Google's sideloading restriction.

As someone who has lived in China for many years, including now, I have to say it's really not great for accessing the World Wide Web. Within China, the accessible internet is basically a Chinese national intranet. Which is not terrible if you are a native Chinese speaker, I guess. They censor because the US sending out massive propaganda. But China's government is producing a lot of domestic propaganda, too. Different goals - the US to destabilize and take over, China to stabilize and maintain support for the system.

As I have lived here many years, I've put in a great deal of effort to learn the language. Unfortunately, with limited results. Learning to read and write in Chinese requires a structured learning environment and about 10 years of focus for most people. Due to illiteracy in Chinese I can't just switch to using the Chinese intranet. And the government keeps cracking down on VPNs. It can be very frustrating accessing the internet outside the GFW. And frankly there is a lot of useful and interesting content that exists outside the GFW.

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Instead of setting up dollar swaps to deepen their ties to the US failstate, they should get in on BRICs, CIPS, and alternative trade settlement systems. These things exist and would gain a great deal of credibility if Gulf states joined.

Also they should kick out the US bases and thereby make their countries a lot safer.

It only sings a sweet burbling song of coffee to me each morning. And afternoon.

I subscribe to it but I don't find enough content on it that keeps me coming back. Do you mind sharing the channels you like watching?

Now I want a giant plate of pancakes with a giant pat of butter on it.

When WikiLeaks blew open US corruption, war crimes and human rights violations they went after the whistle blowers, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning.

United States "The leader of the free world" and Israel "The only democracy in the Middle East" in action.