it seems like you are jsut making it less convienient

to call people

The use case would be me leaving the smartphone charging in another room away from my desk, and answering/placing phone calls via the modded beocom

is this jsut a convoluted scheme to get you to stop playing candy crush all day?

this sounds like an overengineered solution to a non-existant problem

just bring the charger in the same room as you

@Billy Yum Yum Two-By-Two more or less, yeah

or use a bluetooth speaker

but jokes aside, I really want to do something with that phone other than collecting dust, and since we don't even have a POTS line, I thought to give this idea a shot

you could always just throw it in the garbage

it wont collect dust if its melted down into a soda bottle

😦

uhh

discord converts emoticons into emojis nice

there's an option to disable that ;)

Some trash is just trash, dear

its a neat looking phone but i dont think its worth the effort to make a negatively useful item like you are planning

I know, but still...

(A) let go

Anyway, I found this module (BK8000L) which would make for a great candidate, but has no AT command to call a user defined number

sounds like its actually a poor candidate then

This whole idea is retarded but I wish you luck in your evdevor

innovation is just applied autism

If you ever actually make it please let me know

@Magnets nice. They didn't even trim the leads in the bottom of the board. Get what you pay for I suppose.

👌

https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.20.6e2228b4nkKnd7&id=583988410698

😍

if only i could read chinknese

>To make the charger feel more substantial it has a added weight inside the enclosure. It adds about 4.9g

Reminds me of the sand power banks

lol

hmm

I have made 400 orders since I made an Aliexpress account 2 years ago

I have literally spent more than £1000 , maybe even £2000

oh master teach me your ways

every bunch of pennies here and there adds-up to many pounds/dollars. whenever there's something small/frivolous I need, I order it from China and wait 3 weeks for it to arrive

@Speshu No way to check amount spent without counting it yourself, right?

dustcaps, brake pads, handle grips for my bike, melamine sponges for abrasive cleaning, adapters, solder, solder flux, LEDs, screwdriver bits, torches, 18650 batteries, dremel grinding discs, screen protectors, capacitors, resistors, voltage converters, flash carts, ferrite chokes, SD card reader, earbuds, non-slip furniture pads, mini fans, HDMI cables, mouse pads ,,,

all these things I have bought on Aliexpress, and a few more expensive things like my Smartphone, SCART to HDMI converter, and 2 Tigernu bags

@Speshu are chink bike brake pads worth it?

Okay, checked

486.86 United States Dollars spent on ali

did you just manually add it up

maybe he only had 4 orders

<:googlethink1:328536264292827139>

Yes

I did

16 pages of orders

Now I'm off to calculate banggood, fasttech, gearbest...

that sounds like effort

Yep

Ah shit, my points are gone on gb

@Sapharanth

Dear god

Fucking gearbest

How could I have spent so much in there

I just checked my bank account online, it took me a while because they only let me check my statement in 6 month segments at a time for some reason

TOTAL OUT: £1642.33 (money I spent on Aliexpress) TOTAL IN: £75.43 (successful refunds)

that's in Great Brittish Pounds

Neat

Mine doesn't let you sort by recipent though

When did you start using ali? I started in Dec 2016

1st order was a credit card sized fold-able knife thing, Sep. 18 2016

@Speshu are chink bike brake pads worth it?

because i'm lazy i just automated it, so have this

@Julian havn't had much chance to use them yet, fitted them today, but as far as I can tell they're perfectly fine

how much cheaper they were than local alternatives?

also can you post link to them

quite a-lot cheaper actually

where I got mine https://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-1-Pair-2pcs-Mountain-Bike/32968687334.html

I bought number 14, the round black ones

they even came in a retail blister pack

oh I thought you bought V brake pads, but they should be cheaper and just as good as local too probably

mine are super duper worn out

ALI - USD486.86
GEARBEST - USD204
BANGGOOD - USD20
FASTTECH - USD40
KAIDOMAIN - USD15

Total - 762USD, abouts

Not counting inflation

Back in the good ol days dollarydoos were cheaper, or my local currency was stronger

762 usd, and what has this given me?

Some second rate knives, a bunch of flashlight and tons of useless garbage

What are the 3 most expensive things you ordered straight from China?

Skilhunt H03, Nitecore TIP, Astrolux C8

40, 35, 20 usd

abouts

HK Goldway why wont you dispatch my phone <:hms:311152554618912768>

i will be pissed if they say my model is out of stock

my 3: £135.05 - Xiaomi Redmi Note 4X 3GB 32GB (smartphone) | £112.94 - OSSC HDMI Converter Kit 1:1 clone (got stung by cuntstoms, £20 fee) | £36.92 - Chinky knock-off of a Krikzz Gameboy Flashcart

And most expensive gadgets/generally useless/not lifestyle or hobby thing?

IDK man, there's been a-lot of fucking useless shit I've trashed

£20 SCART to HDMI Converter box (it was so bad, it was useless, still trying to sell it on at a loss), 2 beanie hats that were way bigger than advertised and reviewed, didn't fit, £5.50 each lost, a £20 coat I had-to order twice because wrong size

You order clothing from ch9ina?

damnit I could have just fucking bought a really nice expensive coat

@Sapharanth on very rare occasion

like, rarely ever, more often I'll order a bag or a cap

I have since actually got rid of the coat I re-ordered and straight-up spent £40 on a really good coat from Sports Direct, lol

@Speshu 3d printer, mi a1, mipad 4

£40 on chinese coats for no fucking reason, damn I hate myself for that, wtf was I thinking god, I'm too poor for that shit

Aliexpress doesnt tell you how much youve spent?

I just bought my mi mix 3 locally because the difference in price wasn't very big

I must have sperged-out, I have autism

One day..

if there's ever something small and frivolous you want, order it from china, and have patience

a random anon once said "delayed gratification is what separates us from niggers"

Deep shit

Mostly components though, should order more chink shit

Someone pin this shit

<@&209260592911876096>

??

lulz

Are there any good TV boxes or hdmi dongles

I am looking at the mi box s right now

they are all good

ye its breddy good

better than chromecast since it has cast functionality + other stuff

https://gearbest.app.link/4VocqoLvlW

What about these ?

I need something that can play 1080p mkv

And stream through plex

anything can stream through plex

because plex does the transcoding

yeah transcoding is done on the host machine

so its up to your network if it can handle the load

I wonder if the app would be available

Everything has a plex app

Your smart tv probably has one already

Ur mum has a plex app bich

The problem with my smart TV is that it has white subtitles without dark outline

Which basically makes them unusable

Other than that it's pretty good

whats wrong with that type of subtitles 🤔

oh without

nvm

|| still better than subtitles having background color ||

Can't you configure how subtitles look in Plex?

At least those are readable

If they're effectively transcoded in, it should be able to

Not on my tv app

On the server

Maybe

It's late

I will try tommorow

But that is not a bad idea

But I doubt it would work

hm, don't think you can, at least easily

that's pretty dumb.

You can on the web browser version

I heard some people on another Discord talk about how they repeatedly scam Aliexpress by requesting partial refunds over and over again, should I have been doing this all this time?, did I waste half of £1500 all this time? (that's how roughly much I've spent over time)

I have never purposely scammed any online shopping website, am I chump?

no, friend moral highground become moral lowground, send red army after you..

You gotta look at it from the other side; all the fun we're making of chinkery and their shitty methods, do you wanna be someone just like them?

Send them the copy pasta on your refund

*don't actually

Can someone drop the infographic?

@Sdeck37 I mean.. in this day and age, kinda sounds like a good idea, what do I stand to lose?

*your soul*

I'd sell my soul for a cold beverage

then you would be just like the chinks

and thats a fate worse than death

IDK man, I live in the UK, and our ways haven't turned out so good for us

i think its always a good idea to make an effort to not be a piece of shit

I do and will do, but I have no moral issue with ripping-off big faceless corporations

heck, I already buy chinese clones of devices designed by small businesses/individuals, so by proxy I have already ripped-off non-faceless small businesses

I feel nothing

if you really feel nothing then jsut go rip everyone off

you seem like you are already set on doing it

the biggest issue I'm struggling to come to terms with is the possibility of repercussions of my actions.. what if my Aliexpress account gets banned and my address and debit card get blacklisted, that'd sure suck

You're a huge faggot and it'll work for 2-3 orders before ali figures it out and bans you. Make it count, you piece of shit

^^^

being a piece of shit always has repercussions

hmm, okay, someday when I move house or simply decide I'm 100% done with chink shit, I'll go all in

"Corporations aren't people!" Is fine and all, but lying and theft is nigger-tier any way you slice it

.. I wonder how easy it would be to photoshop a crack on a phone screen <:thonk:288060975775612929>

Just because bugmen act like bugs, doesn't make it okay for you to be a bugman

youre tying really hard to convince yourself its ok to be a piece of shit

meh, honestly I've just been thinking hypothetically, and making conversation, I'm too much of a pussy to actually do shit like this

Gaylords like you drive prices up for the rest of us <:deletdis:560200664794398741>

yeah youre making some great conversation, pal

riveting stuff

dnt bully <:sadmitu:331056421342806026>

it's kinda envy-able seeing all the shit eaters getting away with backstabbing and cheating, and actually going far in life doing it

Also <#531212403858472967>

oh I forgot there was an off-topic chat

Why would you Photoshop a crack on the screen when you can find photos of a cracked screen with no watermarks

<:chink:323022148870602752>

just use one of those fake screen crack apps dear <:alismirk:230784726615588865>

Chink label-maker tape review: Bretty good. Occasionally I get one where the gloss layer and backing layer are slightly misaligned, but I can usually poke it back into place and only lose a few inches, maybe up to a foot. I think of all these, minus the one legit Brother brand one, I had three where I took issue, but the vendors for this kinda stuff are super chill and made it right.

@Matthew

I am both mildly excited and annoyed that I apparently ordered 6 rolls that are actually ribbon, not adhesive labels in the neat colors I thought I ordered, but actual gift wrapping ribbon.

Had to dispute on this. Chink was being radio silent on extending purchase protection and it still hadn't arrived after like 60 days .I also kind of figured out that maybe I shouldn't have a golden noose hanging off my waist

$5 for a bit of bent metal? weoww

that's nothing people here routinely overpay for heated up and processed sand

Imagine paying money for liquefied dinosaur and burning it to move a bunch of bent metal around

Lol brainlets

when you phrase it like that i really wanna get some liquefied dinosaur for my bent metal animal

*imagine believing dinosaurs existed*

Imagine imagening the believe that dinosaurs existed

i cant even *imagine* something so *absurd*

you tell em, robot!

What kind of idiot thief tries to pick a glass door

literally just smash it in

a *sneaky* one

I prefer to simply cut the glass with my razor sharp jaw line

jk I aint got no fucking jaw line 😦

feels bad man

<:pepestressed:327933525124841482>

good morning hustlers

good morning bugmen lets get this dispute

fuck beast mode, i'm going bourgeois mode

plot twist chink gets you banned from plantform due threat of violence

and keeps your shekels

>not just mentioning flagged words

wheres matt with the copypasta

@onoderaSecurity How long have you waited?

Also Hong Kong Goldway? Why didn't you buy it from the Mi Global Store, like any sane person would do?

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aren't all of those "mi stores" pretty much bullshit? thats what i thought that they were a mixed bag
30th @StickyDonutHoles

I ordered my RN7 from the Global Mi Store

Got everything I ordered for and my guarentee

So no, it is pretty much one of the most reliable resellers of Xiaomi products

link me lah

And I've never heard of "Hong Kong Goldway"

So you might've been chinked, brah

Two sec then

HK Goldway isn't gonna chink from what I know, long established seller

https://www.aliexpress.com/store/3010045?

Here you go

ive heard of people using them

hk goldway i mean

I'm not saying that they aren't reliable

But you never know

youre wise to use caution, since xiaomi doesnt have an official store on ali

@StickyDonutHoles Mi Global store isn't official

it's just another reseller on AliExpress

>blue in 128gb out of stock on Xiaomi store

reeee

guess i'll just wait

truth to be told you should use caution on any shop you use on ali

^^this^^

@Tribit Yeah but the Mi Store is kind of "certified" by Ali.

Dear <:alismirk:230784726615588865>