Well, you can say that is an experience.

By the way, this won't help for your current case but I suggest to track this page for your possible future phones. I know I never gonna buy Xiaomi again.

Sorry about this. It happened to me with a Huawei phone in the past. I wanted to unlock its bootloader but their server was shut down and it was not possible anymore. Since that day, the first thing I do with a phone is unlocking its bootloader even though there isn't a ROM to install yet.

Well, they already made it very hard. Their account requires a phone number. You have to use their community app to appeal for an unlock request, and it only works at a certain time on a day. If it didn't work at the first try, you have to wait for 10 days (this part could be different, 7 or 14 don't exactly remember). Also. it never works at your first try anyway. They limited the unlock count per account, 3 per year, then they dropped it to 1 per year. Last time I heard it was impossible to unlock older devices because they shut down their server. So the very restricted version of unlocking appeal only works for HyperOS versions I think, so if you have MIUI it's not possible anymore.

As far as I know Xiaomi stopped letting unlock the bootloader even for older devices, so you're out of luck I'm afraid.

Thanks for the feedback. I was initially using Imgur for my image dump for some years but some users reported that Imgur is blocked where they live so I started using ImgBB instead. However sometimes I get feedback like yours that they cannot view the image, well not exaclty like yours but similar. So I haven't find one where no one has problems yet.

Added an Imgur version to the main post, hopefully you can see that one.

By the way, there is something weird happening with ImgBB. I tried to upload to Imgur using ImgBB link and it uploaded as the thumbnail, no idea why but they seem related.

Hmm, for some reason you're only seeing the thumbnail. It's normal on my end. Are you on a Lemmy client or browsing on a mobile browser perhaps? Though I checked and it's fine on Voyager at least.

It's also possible that ImgBB is blocked on your end. I'll put an Imgur version when I'm on PC.

I guess we can easily say this is a cycle. I wonder what's the interval.

Mostly rutracker + jpopsuki.

Finally, MS Word right on the desktop.

Ugh, it was painful! Well done!