「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)

The FBI agents that would be willing to do something probably already got purged…

“Say my name”

“You’re @zakobjoa@lemmy.world, aren’t you?”

“You’re goddamn right”

That is a misnomer. The android’s “lockdown” is equivalent of on an iPhone pressing power button + up button to bring up the power menu which immediately disables biometrics. It only disables biometrics, doesn’t really “hardens” the phone in anyway.

This is more of “disable face ID” type of thing rather than “lockdown”

but we don’t have the 996 mentality here by a long shot

When I was in China I have memories of my mom taking me to her workplace when I was a kid (I think because nobody was at home, grandma was supposed to be watching us but I can’t remember why she wasn’t available for some reason), she worked in some electronic store doing sales.

I remember play some (probably bootleg) games on a portable DVD player and like you put this disc in it then you connect a controller and voila… you play video games on it…

I remember feeling so lonely just by myself in this sort of mall-like place with a lot of people walking by, while mom worked, barely had time to check on me… so I just played games alone by myself… I mean I don’t remember it vividly as in every detail, I was still like either like preschool/kindergarden age or 1st/2nd grade, but I remember the general vibe around there. I had an older brother but he wasn’t there so idk whete the hell he was. I remember the direction to my mom’s workplace (by now, I’ve forgotten it, but I used to just have a sense of direction)

But yea mom was so busy, dad had trouble finding a stable job, constantly job-seeking.

“Childcare” is just finding relatives, usually the kid’s grandparents, according to my mom, it’s said that my paternal grandparents, US permanent residents, refused to watch over us even during their short visit from the US.

Mom worked overtime a lot. Like I remember sometimes just being at home and mom and dad come home so late.

My aparment had this weird child-proof lock thingy that my parents could just lock in from the outside in case no adults was home since they didn’t want their kids to go wandering outside. (firehazard lol, jeez dad wtf)

ERs accept everyone, but all they can do is basic treatment of acute conditions.

Not sure how they are as of right now, but in China, for a long time, they’d require you to pay before getting ER treatment

Medical debt is incredibly hard to collect on too.

In China, they can go after family members…

Americans just don’t understand how good they have it

Lol I remember my family didn’t have internet until we left China…

I lived in a very slum-looking area of Guangzhou right next to the 白云山 (Baiyun mountain). I asked recently about the internet thing and my dad said they were just starting to install internet like very late, like around 2010 around when we left, my dad said it was expensive… so for us, we never got internet in China

Never got to experience the “golden age of internet” that most of y’all talk about… cuz I didn’t even get an internet at all.

Parents didn’t really use internet until like 2014 and smartphones became ubiquitious and then soon afterwards they installed Wechat. That’s like the only thing they use lol.

There’s a lot of like worker safety stuff that China just doesn’t have, also no independent unions and strike-action was uncommon and almost unheard of until we got to the US and then hear about strikes on the news so often it’s kinda a culture shock.

Food safety was so… meh…

Mom mom used to warn me about the food safety thing all the time, stories about people smuggling in milk formula from Hong Kong because there was so much fake milk in mainland. My mom didn’t trust the milk and she said she just breastfed me. Water needs to be boiled… When I found out that Americans just drank from the tap, that was sort of a culture shock.

So after I found out about that, I often drink from the tap cuz I’m often thirsty and didn’t wanna waste time boiling water, also didn’r like warm water… I mean why not, we’re in the US after all (as long as “Flint, Michigan” doesn’t happen its gonna be fine), my parents still have the habit of boiling water… I feel like they’re just wasting electricity lol…

The only thing I liked was the subways in Guangzhou had the platform safety doors… I remember when I first arrived in NYC, I often have fears about just falling into the tracks, cuz the lack of doors… but yea that’s like the safety doors only thing I really missed

Tbf they did protest against the so-called “zero covid” policy and the government sort of gave in.

wumao implies they get paid, western tankies just like to bootlick for free

People in China really need to do what their anthem says:

起来，不愿做奴隶的人们 (Arise, those who refuse to be slaves)

Except that the US requires hospitals to treat those who arrive in the ER¹ then they bill you to bankrupt you later. In China, you have to pay first before getting even emergency treatment. (Common trope in Chinese TV shows is a character gets sick and family can’t pay for an expensive emergency surgery and they somehow find a rich relative to pay for it)

(¹excluding chronic conditions like cancer, apparantly)

your modem baseband is 100% hackable or already backdoored

I hear this mentioned a lot but how exactly is it “backdoored”?

Like… does LineageOS help? Does GrapheneOS help?

Is it like IntelME/AMD-PSP?

(Oh btw LineageOS apparantly breaks the data connection of my carrier so… 🤷‍♂️ there’s that…)

We must stop the Organization, SERN.

El. Psy. Congroo.

We need a “Fedi-Search engine”

LIVE FREE ON THE FEDI- HIGH SEAS!

YARRR! 🏴‍☠️

the vast majority of people don’t go around it

That’s because there’s also a language barrier thing.

Exhibit A: My parents (born in China) are here in US and they just be using wechat all the time even without the firewall.

China doesn’t even really allow VPNs at all, yet some people can still go over the firewall.

If it’s just “age restriction”, I’m sure there will suddenly be a lot of grandpa/grandmas buying VPNs¹

¹When China tried to restrict online video games, kids just used their grandparents IDs for verification lmfao

Doesn’t matter. Chinese people found a way around the firewall, pretty sure there are nerds in UK that will find a way.

Related:

The Chinese internet is so weird…

I tried to go on Baidu Maps on my phone browser so I could look up the neighborhood I used to live in, and the site tried to auto-download the .apk file like 10 times in a row… wtf?

Also like I tried to browse the shopping sites out of curiosity and you can’t even browse the site without needing to sign in, which requires a phone number…

Hey I heard that theres a Very Pretty Neat trick for Brits to “travel abroad” effortlessly

My point is: Just because someone isn’t “suffering as much as others” doesn’t mean the stuff they go through (like the fears of ICE for example) aren’t valid.

Both points are true:

1. You can recognize that, yes you have it better than others.

BUT ALSO:

2. It doesn’t mean you should accept status quo forever.

Because accepting status quo is like saying, “why are you complaining about trump? at least you aren’t in taliban afghanistan or north korea”

Being happy means adjusting your wants to what you have.

Oh I guess I should be happy that ICE only raided my neighbors and not me. Amirite?