You can install custom roms into Xiaomi phones, I recommend LinageOS or /e/OS if you want a degoogled experience. If its not for you, the latter isn't really user friendly as some google apps like maps wont really work.
When this happened I went back to Eternity, a fork of Infinity, the app I used for reddit. That's also the beauty of Lemmy, there are lots of third party apps unlike reddit that banned every single one
The way to combat AI in my opinion is open sourcing every model and training data so that experts can devise methods to check if some text is similar enough to the ones generated by public models
It can just fetch the information one line at a time like a printing machine. I don't think the receipt machine has that much memory to hold everything
Or just stop using custom made algorithms tailored to you in particular. In this front I think lemmy succeeds by not implementing an algorithm and letting you decide on the content you want to see
Usually the distro has tar in automatic and automatically detects which compression flag to use so
tar xf ...
usually just works