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One night in Hong Kong, then onto Zhuhai

China Unicom 1gbs fibre-optic broadband connected to a TP-Link wireless router sat on top of the fridge-freezer, 2 Macbooks (1 with macOS, 1 with MX Linux), 1 Xiaomi tablet, and 2 smart-phones (Samsung & Vivo).

That's a good reason to use a non-US VPN (y)

FWIW here's a couple of traceroutes from where I am. I haven't noticed any slowdown with these fora. ~ % traceroute 147.182.165.119 traceroute to 147.182.165.119 (147.182.165.119), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 14.515 ms 4.605 ms 7.182 ms 2 192.168.1.1...

I always like seeing these.

I'd certainly heard of Charlie Kirk now. Even my Chinese wife had heard of him, and she only reads the People's Daily and watches China Central Television News. AFAICT he was an extreme political right Christian evangelist influencer.

Currently watching The Wandering Earth 2, because I'm in The Wandering Earth 3.

Never heard of him.

We have a Labour Day

No idea what this is about.

Sink plunger. Not expensive, and most good hardware shops should have them. Amazon has them as well.

On my Samsung Note20 Ultra it only had the stock Samsung Messages app. So that's what I use, and never given any thought to using another app for SMS. Although sending SMS it not something I do very often, and the only SMS I receive a things like bank notifications, carrier notifications...

As per my previous post, I can type into that form with my phone no problems. Samsung Note20 with Firefox browser. See attached screenshot:

I just tried it on my Samsung Note20 with Firefox. It seemed to all display correctly, and I could tap and enter data into the various fields no problems. Althouh for forms lke that, I find it easier and more accurate to use the phone's S-Pen stylus than a finger.

Curved which way, concave (like some PC monitors or TVs are), or convex (like an old CRT)? Although I don't think I'd want either on a phone.

Which is the lesser evil for data collection and privacy. Facebook or China?

FWIW I use a Huawei Band 4 with my Samsung Note20 Ultra. Step count and heart rate are accurate, only needs charging once a week. And it was only equivalent of about $30 USD. https://consumer.huawei.com/sg/wearables/band4/

I'm sure my life can do without sunglasses that has social networking and IM included. They'll be a China sunglasses next, that has Wechat, Bili Bili, and Douyin included.

Meta is Facebook. No thanks, I won't be bothering with them.

Might be possible, but you have to check if your particular Redmi device can be rooted, and if there's a suitable non-Chinese custom ROM available for it. BTW my sister has a Redmi phone, but it's a British version bought from Vodafone, which did actually work when she came to China last month.

Yes, the search feature on this site sucks.

Can't say I've ever seen anything like what you describe. But then I'm not familiar with Motorola or Lenovo devices now.

I'm sure this thread belongs in P&CA

WiFi File Transfer, it's what I use. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.techprd.filetransfer