considering that clicking on “status page” in the printer driver opens http://localhost:58510/index.html in the browser and Windows sees it as “Canon G2070 series HTTP”, I wonder if they took the lazy path and the USB is used as a simple network adapter…

I specifically bought this to print photos, ink is not ridiculously expensive like other models, is like $150 per liter, which is still high considering that’s colored water, but not the usual $5000 per liter.

i already opened it and filled with ink, if it was from amazon i’d do that, but i bought it from a small business and that would cause a big loss to them, the printheads are now primed and a return is e-waste as they’re going to dry if sitting unused in a warehouse. At work we have many usb to ethernet print servers from the early 00s, they’re now e-waste and i can get one for free (it’s just that wifi is more convenient and i can place it wherever it fits, instead of routing a cable to the switch)

edit: wait… i realized only now that printheads are disposable (they’re removable and not preinstalled) but they don’t sell those as a spare part??? FUCK! Will this be destined to the e-waste collection in 2-3 years???

I also took 30 minutes of reading the manual before realizing that, yes it doesn’t appear in the wifi network list because it doesn’t actually have wifi connectivity…

edit before someone calls me dumb “u even don’t know how to read the manual”: the user manual is shared with other 10 models and has sections like “how to share the scanner in the network”

But it’s global version or China version?

China version ROM is like this since the mi 6, the excuse was “limiting grey market sales”

Also the ROM now uses a different signature so from mi 5 onwards, flashing global ROM on china version, doesn’t allow to lock the bootloader again (you can send the command to lock it, but then you get a softbrick)

Illegal but tolerated: just think to all the Chinese companies thriving on Facebook ads sales

They crack down on it only when they need to punish a specific target/person

When you enter China, you have to run their application on your phone to fill the immigration form. Way more convenient compared to the paper slip, right? 😉

It’s this https://apkpure.com/zhong-guo-ling-shi/com.gov.mfa

Luckily, you don’t need to install full malware but only medium malware, there’s a way to run it as a web app inside tencent WeChat by scanning a special qr code.

I run this stuff inside insular because tencent is tencent and even on fully patched Android 15 without any file access permission they still manage to drop fingerprinting files disguised as images in /pictures/.gs_fs0

For connecting to my servers, technically ssh on standard ports isn’t blocked (otherwise it would hurt their bots, no?) but I don’t want to show my server IP address, so I use a hysteria2 proxy hosted on a Oracle VM in the Japan datacenter. There are services like doggygo that rent access to those proxys for literal pennies (like $2 per month) but payment need to do with alibaba’s alipay or tencent wepay which is ultra traceable (linked to Chinese id+Chinese bank account+Chinese phone number) and very stupid. Honeypot?

There are reports of evil maid attacks where a secret service agent poses as room cleaner in your hotel room and tampers with your laptop when you’re away, but for normal people this seems unlikely. Keep your electronics with you at all times, always use a VPN, check hashes of executables if really need to run them (better not) and you’re going to be ok

In this specific case can do it but the bootloader unlock request must come from a Chinese ip address, from a verified Chinese number (get otp code via SMS) and wait like one month

They’re mostly configured to ignore it, at most quarantine it

I set the mail server to bounce everything that doesn’t match dkim.

I almost don’t receive spam anymore.

The problem is that sometimes some legitimate services didn’t configure their email server correctly

Facebook not only sends the code to text without asking, but they love to just directly start the reset password procedure.

Now, that’s super weird. Are they assuming that, because last time I logged in was 6 months ago, I must have forgot my password?

How to make money with shitcoins 101:

1. Pay some $100k to some dev to create something the slightly differs from the existing ones

2. Pay some millions of dollars to some marketing agency to find a way to get this shitcoin popular. A funny name, a funny icon, or some solution in search of a problem. Something like “this shitcoin can lower the transfer fees of other shitcoins and also if you hold the bag you get 69% APR”

3. When it launches you immediately buy it for pennies, or even directly access some premined quota (like 30% of whole distribution) that the dev left for you

4. When idiots buy it, raising the price, you slowly dump it

5. Clueless people did the staking (lock them for a year) of millions of “cat coin”, worth $1 each at the time thinking that they are going to get 69% APR. They actually get the 69% APR, but the problem is that each “cat coin” after a year is worth $0.000001 each

It’s already the moment of selling high. Buy low is when they’re introduced. Shitcoins are generally going down with value. If you buy now you will end losing money 100%

None of them have a real practical application, it’s 100% speculation

I have a revolut account and for some reason they give $1 in shitcoins if you answer some questions like “bonk differs from the other shitcoins because it’s made for the lolz” or “floki does exactly the same of other shitcoins but slightly different”

The upside is that in this way they use less plastic. Cardboard can’t be transparent and people doesn’t separate the plastic from the cardboard when recycling.

We all know what razor blades look like so a photo can suffice, no?

LOL genuinely thought it was a case of “engineer hates the user”, instead it was a case “management said we need to save 5 cents for the voltage regulator”

It’s a cr2032 from Duracell with that coating, later I’m going to try that

I can’t believe everyone knows such an obscure reference

Raid wasn’t designed for data safety but to minimize downtime. Just swap the drive an continue operating the server seamlessly. Full backups are still required as the chance of complete failure isn’t zero

There are so many assholes like this that unless they’re using MailChimp or similar (cloud platforms where this can’t be done automatically) I don’t even bother with unsubscribing. I just set the mail server to bounce any email from that domain.

And also with a randomized name/logo that changes at every election, so there’s no more “i vote for that party because my family voted for them since 200 years ago, and i will still vote for them even if they want to do immoral things”