almost the same thing

motherfucker how are you supposed to keep up with xiaomi camera updates

so many updates

so little time

@kontroll I once used my Manker U21 (high throw light) just for fun to brag to a friend about the distance it can light up

I shined it into a building like 500m away

suddenly the lights there turn on

and someone went to the window to look wtf was that

https://www.tomtop.com/p-s1556-4.html?mid=10000017461 Moonman lamp

I got a good heh out of that

😄

Perhaps I should take a night-time walk some day (night) and just fuck around like that.

wait till someone opens the window

turn on strobe ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

g@Cole will i get that if i play iwth my blf gt

kek yes

you might need binoculars to see the open window though

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

@Cole https://scontent.flhr3-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/26001329_10213524776385292_31754162349184285_n.jpg?oh=4e7cbfea60657adc54d336725f1e3219&oe=5AF8FA47

someone posted this beamshot on FB

building is 900m away...

hot

I HAVE RETURNED

ha jk

liteally who <:chink:323022148870602752>

https://www.gizchina.com/2017/12/31/this-week-on-gizchina-december-25-31/

Actual good gizchina article

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uFiuwyEZtQ

kitti

@Transience#0182 inb4 patrick

@transience

*sigh*

RIP patrick

suggest me an e-reader

Your phone.

amazon kindle

<:alismirk:230784726615588865>

im not in the US, and kindle is pricey here. 😦

@ru13r#4839 https://www.aliexpress.com/item/ONYX-BOOX-C67ML-Carta2-Ebook-Capacitive-Touch-eink-screen-e-Book-Reader-8G-1448-1072-WIFI/32600577781.html

https://www.massdrop.com/buy/kinkajou-bottle-cutter when will the chinks make a replica of this

don't fucking bother

i spent like 2 months trying to make a way to cut glass bottles

just buy real glassware

scoring bottles isnt the hard part

having them break evenly is

Zappals stopped the free shipping? those freebies look a bit shit now at 3.99 for postage

You had to use a coupon when I got them

@Julian
What's the matter with all this bottle cutting autismo?

idk I thought it would be a neat gift

I dont need any more glassware and shit though

I have a kinkajou, backed it on kickstarter

Totally not worth it

Made some nice glasses though

It's fun

But you can do it without that thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktfX4Vpy9ic

I'd put on some glasses and gloves for that shit, don't want to get glass shards

@Windatica why would you wana cut bottles

we had a lot of bottles

I have alot of limbs but I haven't decided to cut them yet

For what purpose?

i started with like 12 bottles and i planned to make at least 1 bottle I could drink out of

perfectly scored them, poured boiling water over the scores and they all broke unevenly

eventually i got a decent one like 20 bottles later but I used it to grow grass and kept it on my table

it was chink grass seeds too

Why not just sand the bottles even with a dremel?

if only if it was that easy

lmao just get a good fucking sword and smash the bottle in two

you guys sound like one of those instagram videos though

"I'll use this lighter and chewing gum to make a stand to put a peanuts bag on"

@Windatica if only it was easy to get a sheet of sandpaper and put the glass on the sheet and rub back and forth til reasonably smooth and even?

i don't think you understand

No

when i say "break uneven," i don't mean its roughly broken to a circle, i mean it's super fucked that it would take me hours to sand it down

Stop fucking up so much then

instead of doing that i'll just buy a cup

Best solution really

Chink cups

I know your pain, @Windatica I tried doing this before, too. It's just not worth the trouble

Just use a 5 dollar glass cutter. Dont really use them because bottle glasses are pretty weak and all mine broke in like a year.

Yeah, it's really not worth it.

chink shit cpus on ali when? https://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=11589205&postcount=137

wtf

Looks like 4k japanese waifu simulators are back on the menu

Which nigga saw his name?

Zen 2 performance? When the current process is 28nm? I doubt that

shows 16nm shrink on the map

>inb4 normie miners drive up the price to amd levels

<:chink:323022148870602752> Wonder how much spying their version of the Intel Management Engine will be doing.

HAPPY NEW YESR

Happy new year!!!!

But it is not Chinese New year, <#189467888657235970>

Happy new year lads

u2

happed new year guys

Happy New Year 🎉

>sorry fren ,we meaning 30MB

>please no disputing

inb4 all it is is a dongle that connects you to chink cloud storage

@Matthew >capped to 1GB uploaded data per day

Tbh that wouldn't be bad for a $5 one time purchase

i guess if you didn't buy a phone like that pixel with unlimited google drive storage, it'd be a decent substitute

Happy new year

i hope everyones stuff arrives tomorrow

It's still 31st here, so day after tomorrow here. I am expecting 3 packages.

Mon 01 January - New Year's Day No deliveries or collections
Tues 02 January - Bank Holiday in Scotland No deliveries or collections in Scotland
Wed 03 January Normal deliveries and collections in all areas

;_;

nothing until Wednesday

rip

Happy 2018 yall

Ordering shit in late december is a mistake

Theres never a good time to order chinkshit, just accept everything will take 2 months

^

relatives christmas presents still haven't arrived 😓

Sent to you, from them, vice versa, or some other arrangement?

timw to post the first deals of the year

in live chat on ali, what does that mean?

Fml

I shoulda done my research on GeekBuying.
Never buy a phone from them.

My 5X will likely come with a fake global rom that can't be flashed or modified and won't recieve updates, and GeekBuying has been caught tampering with phones on numerous occasions.

Why the fuck would they bother to put fake ROMs on phones? Why not just leave the official chink or european MIUI on it, or atleast use something a little less malicious? -_-

🕵

oh right, ccp spies.

Hmm

Happoy New year

What are some good brand Mechanical Keyboards from Ali?

here's a good starting point http://chinkshit.xyz/infographic.pdf @Lesi

@Deleted User
All that snow will probably add another day of delay.

@penguin Should have bought from IBuyGou

"can't be flashed or modified"

hmmm

@Cole It ends up with 900E and 9008 errors, and you can fix it but only to go back to using the hacked rom.
I just want to flash the A1 port onto it.

how would a seller effectively break ROM installation

I'm not doubting you, I'm interested in how tf is that possible

unless it's a phone with different hardware

fastboot

if they flashed some shit they must've unlocked the bootloader

it's quite possible it's a hacked device completely

one second I'll pull up the MIUI forum

http://en.miui.com/thread-840402-1-1.html

That's the main thread

My main issue is I'm entirely unsure if it'd be safe to install TWRP and the A1 port without bricking :/

Do you have the device in hand?

Nope. Even after their week of processing it the parcel is late

Once you get it, plug it into your computer and check using fastboot what type it is.

If it's Oxygen, chargeback.

Say that the device has been tampered with and is not safe for use.

why would chink do it

botnet

Tracking only shows "information recieved" 2 days ago, which is a day after it was due to delivered and was only put in because I asked the postal company to look into the tracking number. I've requested that they send me a refund and said "if it arrives I'll contact you"

Contact them my ass, shit's my paperweight regardless.

@Droidbot yeah I'll make sure to check. If it's Tiffany theres a chance I can still get an update to fix it.

chargeback seems like a good idea

especially if you say what Droidbot did

yeah I paid through paypal and I'll be able to prove not only my phone has been tampered but also the phones of many other customers to back me up.

take screenshots of the product listing too, since I bet they don't mention this tampering anywhere

Nope, they don't even claim it's a global rom.

oh you paid via PayPal? major win here

PayPal will save your ass

Hope they let me keep it though. Even if it's fucked I need a phone for the time being

my trusty PPTV King 7 finally bit the dust 😢

the fuck is pptv

first time hearing of that brand

some chinkshit brand that came and went like a black father

peepee television wow

sounds like one of those fucked up peepee the frog memes

or a gay child porn channel

six inch fucking phone

hooooooly

might as well have gotten mi max 2

Yeah but it was only $160 AUD, and I'm a poorboi

ah a fellow aussie

yeah have fun with anything shipping here in the next week or so

how much was mi5x??

6 inch, 2k display.
I could probably fix it since the only issue is the screen but I already had ordered the 5X and I don't want to drop $30 on getting an obscure part

uhhh $260 AUD

64GB ROM 4GB RAM

ouch

I paid $147 for my Redmi Note 4X 3GB/16GB

AUD

Yeah but I'm a slut for using internal memeory along with my 64GB SD card.

ah

I just got a 64GB mSD and threw all my moosic and movies on it

movies, music, podcasts and a few games for emulation. my family is fond of road trips and it gets fairly boring/irritating; a bluetooth controller and Final Fantasy 7 make it a hundred times easier.

any reason why you didnt go for the A1?

The A1 64GB model was $320 and has an issue with the 3.5mm jack

oh okay

And since I was blissfully unaware of this clusterfuck of a situation I thought I could just install the A1 port to recieve an equal or greater end result

is the 5x completely identical in hardware ?

yup, except the 3.5mm port is not 10v

what's preventing you from installing the a1 port?

sorry didnt read what you said before

hes scared that he'll recive a knockoff device

oh he havent received one yet?

since theres 5xs with mi max 2 hacked mobos floating around

GeekBuying installed a dodgy ROM on a legitimate device for some reason, which fucked up the bootloader

wait so do you have the phone right now or are you still waiting for it?

Waiting for it

are you sure about that dodgy rom then?

or just thinking it's a possibility

It was due like 3 days ago but still.

no one has mentioned getting a 5X that was legitimate thus far :/

@penguin I know the feel about roadtrips btw

well imo i think you won't receive a 5x with a diff motherboard

my dad wants to travel the great ocean road completely from melb to adelaide and I'm rapidly gathering anime to watch on the way through

just gonna be a bitch to get the rom fixed worst case scenario

some people get the "tiffany" loader, which isn't so fucked and means I might be able to load the A1 port, some others got the "oxygen" loader which buttraped them since it locks a portion of the eMMC, and others managed to get the "tiffany" one with the A1 port on it??

in any case, I'm gonna get it refunded if it has an illegitimate bootloader on it.

Hahaha @Droidbot I'm in Brisbane. Trips to North QLD in THE SUMMER.

We have no family or reason to go up there. Makes me want to kms.

it might be super hard to load a rom

if you have a fucked up bootloader

aye :/

you can't

that's the thing

it might be impossible to unlock it

the oxygen loader is unlocked

but has problems loading roms

oh yeah, some come unlocked and ends up bricking you if you load it
others can allow a specially modded version of TWRP to be installed and therefore allow some official ROMs but it's hit-or-miss

scary

i have no idea what is going with xiaomi phones anymore

Yup. Geekbuying do a lot of scummy shit too, such as selling refurbished devices as brand new, fake battery banks, etc.

Surprised they haven't been sued by Xiaomi for knowingly doing this shit.

Xiaomi released like 16 phones in 2017.

at least you bought it with paypal

i'm wondering how's the a1 port like

@z3rk everything works

since they are similar devices, could you actually get official updates too

from google

but you have to flash mia1 firmware onto mi5x

Yeah. If they don't work with me via email I'll have to force it through paypal support with heavy evidence and proof of bullshittery.

for fingerprint

ye

and goodix fp doesnt work

haha fuck goodix honestly

straight up fuck goodix

wtf is goodix?

thank fuck i received my phone with a proper rom and proper fpc scanner

@penguin there is two fp scanner types

goodix and something else

Fpc

the goodix has literally no kernel sources

or anything

so they have to steal shit from miui

it's a bitch to get working on every new android version

recently just got fixed for my phone on android 8.1

ew. I imagine they're irresistably cheap for companies to use though

no it's just what's available

xiaomi don't like using them but they have to make phones and fpc aren't exactly always available

it's like on the redmi note 4/x where there are two camera sensors

sony and ov

ov one is shit

but it's a lottery on which one youll get

i think the camera is defective