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Fair enough, I feel your pain. Hope that you had btrfs rollbacks available to you.

Did you not see the news item you get before it allows you to start the update?

Have you looked into the immigration laws in those countries? That’s really the first place you should start when it comes to narrowing it down.

I would really suggest checking out Russ’s channel Retro Game Corps for reviews as he almost always covers every handheld PC including some of those from Ayaneo and such and he’s very in-depth. https://www.youtube.com/@RetroGameCorps

I put the phone down as the light coming from it is part of the reason your brain is staying awake.

Appreciate you bro.

“but console manufacturers have been known to brick or flag devices if they get connected before official launch.”

Big citation needed on that. There’s zero need for console manufacturers to do that when they can simply hold down the servers on their end until release date anyways, Never once heard of a device bricked simply because you received it early and tried using it.