Qualcomm and most phone manufacturers try extremely hard to make sure you can’t run your own operating system on their hardware.
A bug in their security preventing you from installing your own operating system has been found on a specific Qualcomm chip - the Snapdragon 8 gen 5, which, at least for some Xiaomi phones, lets programmers load their own versions on the devices
Can someone explain this to me like I’m an art major and didn’t get into tech?
Qualcomm and most phone manufacturers try extremely hard to make sure you can’t run your own operating system on their hardware.
A bug in their security preventing you from installing your own operating system has been found on a specific Qualcomm chip - the Snapdragon 8 gen 5, which, at least for some Xiaomi phones, lets programmers load their own versions on the devices