They are like smartphones with no phone or internet connection. They also store their files in a RAM disk so as long as you dont install the backup coin battery you can just yeet the main battery and erase everything. They also use proprietary connectors so the cops diagnostic tools wont work anyway.

>>512056519 (OP)
Ay nigguh you phone so old it run Windows Exhpee mane

>>512056519 (OP)
>>>/g/

>>512056519 (OP)
why don't you spend some time disconnecting from devices rather than forcibly try to use something from 2005 with very little use today from how bloated the internet has become?

>>512056519 (OP)
Can you explain why you would want to use this?
I don’t think I’ve used my computer for non-internet in a decade.
If I did, it would be for typing, which isn’t something I want to do on a handheld.

You know you can just get a computer that isn’t connected to the internet, right? It doesn’t have to be ancient shitty tech.

>>512057154
The government is trying to de anonymize and censor the internet. these are part of the solution

>>512056519 (OP)
pagers are even more secure, goy

>>512057545
Wireless splinternet. Bulk up your hard drives and be ready. Bonus points for using drones to carry hard-line runs, just don't electrocute yourselves.

What's the point without Internet?

>>512056519 (OP)
certain phones make it easy to physically disconnect the cellular radio and wifi/bt chip can be covered in gold foil or if you have the right equipment desoldered entirely

>>512056519 (OP)
At least use a Palm device if you're going that old. Windows mobile was dogshit

This is giving me horrific PTSD flashbacks to this era.

>>512058221
You can use it for things you need a smartphone for like GPS and a camera just without being tracked at all times. They can emulate ms dos so you dont have to scrounge dead forums for windows mobile app .cabs
>>512058726
I wonder what you could do with modern software and hardware like FPGAs to enhance its capabilities.

I used an old pc with no wifi capabilities, installed and tried 7 different linux systems and one of them could pick up wifi. riddle me that ?

>>512059412
You could just be technologically retarded

>>512059607
sounds like phone fag cope.

>>512056519 (OP)
All that schizo shit aside, I've been thinking about getting one of these recently. 30 hours on a pair of AAs is wild.

>>512056844
It’s Windows CE you ignoramus

>>512056519 (OP)
Man I miss Pocket PCs. I had the Compaq one with the dial-up pack. I wonder why Microsoft killed that. Palm OS was great too

>>512057366
The later models can connect to WiFi, bringing the together the advantages of Internet access, file management, word processing/calendar and even secure email all in a device that can be reset to factory in 3 seconds flat or less.

>>512060034
I’d recommend one of the many HP models or even Compaq/iPaq I think they called it. I had a Compaq Aero, though it was a very basic model compared to the full color high-res Windows CE models that came out just at the end of their life. There’s probably one or two other makes that were coveted at the time but i can’t recall the specifics.

>>512056519 (OP)
I only use my phone for internet anyway.

Why didn't pocket pcs make a come back?

>>512059412
WiFi requires physical hardware, specifically a PCMCIA card, or an internal little tiny card, which has two antennas running along side the display bezel, usually. Even if it’s a model that didn’t come standard, it’s obviously been upgraded.

>>512060034
Get a DOS palmtop if you want that form factor. theres basically zero Windows CE palmtop or psion software out there

>>512060766
This is a tongue in cheek joke right? Because a PDA combined with a phone is literally what they advertised early smart phones as(thinking of the Samsung Blackjack and obviously blackberry). Ergo, a smartphone is just a more advanced PDA, so they made the biggest kind of comeback possible,

>>512056519 (OP)
You know airplane mode exists right? Turns off all the antennas, and you can turn off the wifi and BT features too.

And you can use all the non-internet stuff!

>>512060034
>>512060556
HP Journada was one I was trying to recall, and that was particularly robust with features, including full PCMCIA. It was effectively a pocket PC.

>>512060034
If you want life, the e-ink tablets have pretty long life, and they are rechargable so you aren't playing battery games.

Just go back to analog. Need to know how to spell a word? Use a dictionary. Need to get a message to someone? Send a letter. Need to look something up? Use an encyclopedia. Need to entertain yourself? Read a book.

>>512059299
You can use airplane mode and offline maps with a smartphone. It's just no one bothers.

>>512056519 (OP)
>They are like smartphones with no phone or internet connection.

how can I call my homies then?

>>512056519 (OP)
>They are like smartphones with no phone or internet connection

So a smart phone, without the "smart" part, or the "phone" part"

This might be a silly question but what do you even do with that?

>>512060319
>the advantages of Internet access
but the main feature is that it's not on the internet?

>>512059299
>GPS
>without being tracked at all times
???

>a camera
what's wrong with just an actual camera, a camera that has much higher resultion than a 20 year old phone

>>512061496
I’m sure he’s just referring to the novelty of the fact that so many microchips could be powered by 2 1.5V batteries. As to E-ink, your mileage may vary, but I quit trying after having 3 different models including 2 early Kindles which all died the same death- cracked screen- but all 3 cracked while sitting off and undisturbed in a end table drawer, and there was barely anything else in there, no contact. But it was against an outside wall, and given it was winter, I gather they can’t survive colder temperatures/fast changes.

Using these is like owning a dumb terminal in 1989. Even if you wanted to pop online to download a file you’d need to set up a proxy for encrypted protocols.

>>512056519 (OP)
Look up termux-desktop on github. You can install termux, xorg for termux, then run a full fledged (bastardized) Linux distro on your android.

If you have a Samsung phone, they have dex. So plug in a PD USB C dock with hdmi out, and you have a full desktop PC.

Downside is it tracks you, unlike pocket PCs.

>>512060556
>>512060319
>>512056844
>>512056519 (OP)
Those things will have unlatched security vulnerabilities that a simply publicly available script can exploit and give you full control over the device

The wifi, if it has it, will be version g if you're lucky, and the Bluetooth will be version 1 or 2
Both of these are basically useless

>>512059299
Nah the solution is my post above. Taking an open source ARM phone and throwing desktop Linux on top of android, with the termux-desktop project.

Look up the android emulation subreddit. Modern flagship phones can use bochs64 + wine and run full desktop PC games from a decade ago. The specific termux package is called mobox.

>>512061751
I’m not going to bother to look up OPs model. Ok yes I am. And I confirmed it has WiFi capability. At any rate the main point is, while these did have a CF card for storing data(if desired) they also had a RAM-disk, therefore one could theoretically access certain secure or encrypted websites for sending messages, or do whatever research etc they like, all without having to always be prepared to run a disk-wiping utility(write 1s, 0s, 1s across entire disk) which takes time. The back of a PDA pops off and the battery is removable, the backup coin battery is likewise highly accessible, which wipes all data other than what you chose to store on CF

>>512062111
802.11b
>>512062252
Forgot pic of specs

Picrel me running a full (bastardized) Linux desktop on my Samsung. Plug in a USB C dock for dex, and it becomes a full desktop. Can even run windows games via mobox. At this point 100% of CD ROM games and 90%+ of DVD ROM games will run on mobox.

https://github.com/sabamdarif/termux-desktop

>>512056519 (OP)
>They are like smartphones with no phone or internet connection
So its totally useless

>>512062252
>access certain secure or encrypted websites for sending messages, or do whatever research etc
could you be more vague please

>>512062420
Neat. I have a Galaxy note III I believe, collecting dust and waiting for such a capability- it has the hi-speed USB port but not C- does that preclude it from use, ie is it too damn old?

>>512062563
I don't think it has Samsung dex. You can still install Linux and use it as a mini desktop for productivity, with tiny screen. You will also be limited, because no dock means no USB ports for adding ethernet or USB hard drives.

>>512062485
I don’t ever find myself needing to send end to end secure messages because i dont discuss anything damning or that I wouldn’t be OK with having paraded around town. However I have used protonmail for throwaway purposes, which is a web-browser based email accessible via URL. I’m certain there are peer to peer encrypted messaging platforms similarly accessible with minimal research, but as I have no need for it myself at this time, I won’t be elaborating further by researching it.

>>512056519 (OP)
>doesnt just keep incoherent notes scribbled in schizo jargon on old greasy hamburger wrappers
pathetic

>>512062252
>>512062111
its good enough to run an IRC client and theres WM HAM radio software so you can connect it to a baofeng or meshastic node too. My other point, we should really look into making modern wpa network drivers and shit for these

>>512062936
that's cool I use gmail

>>512062782
Thanks. Used phones have a way of falling into my lap, everyone who knows me thinks that if anyone might be interested in doing something with it, it would be me. And they’re right. I’m hoping to set up one of them for providing Internet via tethering but without setting a hotspot flag, so I can run it through my unlimited plan rather than get capped.

>>512061342
>You know airplane mode exists right?
much trust you expect.

Haven't played around with it myself but you can get WWAN cards allowing your laptops to use SIM cards for mobile data. Perhaps there's a smaller version for pdas or smth

>>512063138
Indeed they are perfect for such uses- fellow RF enthusiast here, even have GMRS license for a repeater network I run. I’m currently building a GSM/CDMA “1G” network for my old tri-band cell phones. But drivers are a piece of cake, I’ve had to make my own on many occasions when the originals weren’t available or were never updated to modern OS driver management standards. So as long as either A the hardware present is compatible, only needing software changes, or B there is a means to add a PCMCIA or USB WiFi adapter, it’s completely feasible and not all that time consuming. I have a wireless b/g/n PCMCIA adapter in my Win 98SP3 PIII Thinkpad, AES/WPA compatible.

>>512063559
There are, I have several which are 3G compatible but the only 4G compatible ones I have thus far are USB based- which isn’t necessarily a dealbreaker.

>>512057366
Reading is something I still do on a Palm Pilot. The fucking thing just won't die. iSilo reading app will do most formats and it fits in any pocket. It has backlighting that just illuminates the text so the battery lasts a long time. True, it won't connect to the internet, or even home network. I have a cradle I put it into that connects through USB and I essentially side-load books onto it.

>>512059299
>FPGAs
>custom cryptography hardware at your fingertips
they are definitely getting restricted.

>>512063889
The one I use is fifth from the left on the bottom row (color) and I also have all three Handspring devices which are the three on the top right.

>>512063825
sounds even better - can be easily popped in a faraday bag

>>512063889
I’m jealous. This doesn’t happen often in my life. Good to see a fellow collector/preserver of vintage technology. My den as filled to the brim with various working “museum exhibits” yet I’m too wary of people to ever let them in my home to enjoy them. Someday I’ll have a basement I can secure from the main house, or small rented office I can expand into, and share the interactive experience with the world. Until then, I use them for various tasks. I track my home finances and auto maintenance records on an Apple IIc, AppleWorks

>>512064734
Based. I've been messing with windows XP and it's so comfy. For airgapped systems, why not use it?

>>512056519 (OP)
Garbage then, garbage now. Would not even keep for its tantalum value.

>>512064249
Indeed though static dissipating bags (not static resistant, not static free, not anti-static, STATIC DISSIPATING) are available in all shapes and sizes for practically nothing, or literally nothing if you know which boxes to check when you spot them next to someone’s garbage. I’ve tested resealable ones with great results, open top bags though should be doubled or well closed by wrapping/taping the end.

>>512060102
hey buddy, your wenis is showing

>>512064884
I still use Windows 98SE SP3 online using the Kmelon browser- however, I have set up an old server(HP Vectra Kayak tower) with several 1000Mb/s network cards that routes that node of the network via a VPN for security reasons. I have a really nice FortiNet firewall that would do the same job with more simplicity, except I’ve already done all the work, and I plan on selling the firewall as it’s worth like $800.

>>512065094
Ok I’ll admit it’s Windows Pocket PC which is based on the CE kernel. Are you satisfied, big man?

>>512062345
Not surprised, I did say if you're lucky
>>512063138
Honestly, you could probably remove the wifi chip and dead bug a modern wifi Bluetooth card in there.

Remove the godforsaken nicad or lead acid battery pack and replace it with a lithium ion pack, one of equivalent capacity would certainly be physically smaller allowing you to free up more room for upgrades.

They do make modern pocket computers that run Linux with iPS screens and 10 point touch.

>>512065329
impressive, very nice

>>512065263
Ps the server runs Win 2000 Server edition but I wanted to run NT 4.0, it just wasn’t as practical without having to implement various work arounds to utilize modern security protocols

>>512063030
Who TF is FC

Rare captcha!!!!
>>512056519 (OP)
>>512056844

>>512063030
Who TF is FC?

Rare captcha!!!!
>>512056519 (OP)
>>512056844

>>512065593
Personally I as impressed to have been called out on that, good eye. I considered typing the full version in the original post but then kinda thought it would be neat to see if there was any old techs or enthusiasts hanging around here, rather than just people generally interested in the idea. As evidenced by anons wall of PDAs we walk among gods here

>>512065689
Either an obscure reference to uncle Ted Kaczynski or someone with initials FC really resonated with the idea of destroying hard drives innawoods

>>512066071
I know the cabin, but I've never heard Uncle Ted refered to as FC

>>512061751
GPS doesn't need to be two way.
Things like hiking gps, the old garmin palm pilot, and other devices just need to be able to get the signal of a few satellites.
It's a bit like FM radio.

>>512064884
Re: air-gapped systems. Your usage of the term is technically correct and widely used by the community- I however prefer to use “closed system” or Local Area Network only, if that’s the case. This is because I deal often in backup of data and I’m constantly trying to convince my employers to do so properly-and to test the backups too. So in my use, Air-gapped means a computer system or backup server that is physically located in a different building, preferably one where the literal air gap(distance) is sufficient to ensure the data’s security in the event of a catastrophic event at the main facility, and vice versa. In my garage, which is 25ft from my house, lies my backup server, which is connected via fiber to the LAN segregated side of my network, as to facilitate actually backing up the data. But it falls back on wireless connection if necessary.

>>512066326
I haven’t either hence it’s probably some obscure reference if it’s related to him at all.

/g/larpers are just as bad as /k/larpers

You’re a fucking nobody. What are you going to store on it, faggot? Your mom’s soup recipe? Get a clue.

>>512066726
Indeed, gps isn’t two way. It does send time synch and triangulation data, but your garmin receiver doesn’t have transmitter capabilities, unless it has the live-traffic dongle(or internal capability on later models I assume). I have one that does BT for connecting to car stereo but that’s totally beside the point

>>512066868
Weak fed bait post
Hey kid, wanna….

>>512057366
These were freaking awesome when they were new. Now, only those who need to stay off the grid use these, as they were before the NSA and such backdoored smart phones (before smart phones), and can easily be wiped.

To be honest, aside form being on the old cell networks, they're great devices still if you're not app hungry or want to customize a mobile device for special use.

>>512065263
Nice. I wouldn't use it for anything important though. Older OSes are functionally superior to new ones.
>>512066740
Nice setup. I don't use the term air gap to mean a backup that is geographically in a different area.

>>512066326
>>512066768
>zoomiezooms have the entire world wide web of knowledge at their fingertips but cant fathom how to access it

>>512056519 (OP)
I wanted one to play ZSNES on when I was a lad

Then the PSP came out

>>512057366
>Can you explain why you would want to use this?
It was basically an electronic version of a pocket organizer

>>512057545
I want the christofascist government to murder you and make you watch veggie tales at the morgue

>>512057366
All phones are tracked. All calls and SMS messages are already tracked.
All internet in the near future will be tracked. Everything you post, anywhere will be tracked back to you.
So there is a need for alternatives.

>>512067121
To be fair Google doesn't work any more, and their AI search is retarded or intentionally wrong. The library of the internet is actively being burned right now.

>>512056519 (OP)
Wouldnt a steamdeck work better

>>512067443
fair point we gone full circle. ive quit joogle for others but it takes much more effort than in the past to find even simple things. trying to find technical information has become a nightmare and im glad i have books in the shelf to reference
the one that really chaps my ass is the ever more frequent occurrence of picel when i go to rewatch a bookmarked video from times past

I have one of the original Apple Newton PDAs from like 1993 in storage somewhere. I need to find it and get it running so I can whip it out in a bar and impress the panties off of some cute Zoomettes. Sounds ridiculous but in the past I've gotten pussy from Gen Z girls just because I was wearing a very retro looking $35 LED watch, and a very '90s proto iPhone thing will work even better.

>>512056519 (OP)
How about a Blackberry revival? With all high tech features of nowaday phones

>>512067121
I thought maybe he signed his edgelord letters FC, but I can't physically research every possible thing, my lifespan, fortunately, is finite.

>>512060319
Anon you can reset most modern device in 3 seconds or less.
Scrub the encryption key and you're good.

>>512057545
>part of the solution is using something that can't connect to the majority of the internet and has no real function usage aside from hosting files you'd want to instantly remove from existence when proximal to police
I think you're a pedophile

>>512067820
Yup. Youtube is burning their catalog too. Search only gives you 5 results then goes to recommended videos.

They are making people dumber to make them easier to control. Oops, now China rules the world. Dumb Jews.

>>512068894
>if you care about digital security you're a pedophile.
If he was a pedophile he would work for the police or government.

>>512067121
I didn’t care to look it up, plus the whole point of the pooling of resources in a community like this is so that discussion can occur and knowledge can be gained from those more researched on a particular subject. Or that’s my take on it. However your premise that zoomers cant seem to understand they can google literally everything they’ve ever wanted to know, is correct. It seems the idea of “everything you’ve ever wanted to know, for free at your fingertips” is lost on all but a narrow window of millennials.

>>512067421
Hey dipshit, learn to read.
>>512067063
I don’t need to wipe anything on my devices though.
Maybe stop jerking it to Donald Trump raping kids.

>>512069410
It may be useful to try using the site:YouTube.com (or any other obviously) option, added to the end of your search term for searching websites that have nerfed their search functions. And quotation marks around phrases you know for sure will be in the document you’re looking for.

>>512069861
Yes it helps, but they still put trigger words in. Like if "trump" is anywhere in your query, it gets flooded with orange man bad articles, even if you are searching for something from years ago.


This stuff all applies to OPs case, because I bet if I searched it, I would find tons of "local news" channel articles, and not the court docs.

>>512056519 (OP)
Russia FSB has gone back to type writers and paper for ultra high security info. Can’t hack a type writer.

I used this bad boy to make boots calls over Skype in the early 2000s

>>512070037
Ops case? Did you get this thread confused with the one that keeps getting spammed about anon’s 4chan folder?

>>512067820
There are a couple of usable data capture websites for converting YouTube videos to MP4 or whatever format you prefer. Eventually those too will be unable to pull the data, but there’s always the art of screen capture, despite the obvious drawbacks(time is 1:1 to convert).

>>512067421
It is tracked already. Everything already is. Has been for a long time.
There are ways around it all but you know, shhh. Work it out yourself. Fictitious persons. Hint.
And your proximity data is all tracked too. All of it, all of the time.
Your file doesn’t exist until it’s needed, at that point with nothing more than your phone number the algorithm is accessed and WHAM you now have a file, kinda. Because all the data is already there.
I’ve been telling you how it works for ten years+ so you really have no excuses for still being like
>you know, i’m a little suspicious about this you know, hmm, ponder, hmm, ponder.
I used to do private security and similar shenanigans and accessed your shite via your phone number.
Here’s the rub, the interdasting point of reference - have you ever used big tech sites like Twitter & Facefook? If you haven’t I couldn’t getcha. Because when you did use them, when you clicked that sweet sweet user agreement you didn’t read you agreed that private corporations could access the algorithm in regard to you. And so all i used to do was be the corporation, which was very easy. I used to impress clients by asking them if they have an enemy and if they want all of their enemies darkest secrets revealled there and then on the spot, more info than their spouses or families would ever know, every dark little bit of it - it took me literally 1 minute or less all i needed was your phone number.
*I don’t do that any more. I don’t do zip any more. Had a dangerous youth and I’ve been cozy for a long time now.

>>512069479
What possible thing could you be hosting on your phone that is THAT confidential.

>>512070375
KEK yeah. Hopping between threads

>>512070670
Apparently anything since there is another thread where jokingly naming a folder "terrorism plans" got a guys rights taken away.

>>512070192
Ok, so actually you very much can, the trouble is I’m sure they’re not buying these from external sources. But yes, it is extremely doable with just a tiny microcontroller, smd resistor network, and discrete contacts for each key- that is just one of many methods one could use. It’s just like designing a membrane keyboard and controller with an added xmit factor.

>>512070725
lol. I glanced into it when I first started seeing it- I didn’t think it needed to be said to not name your 4chan archives in such a way, but hopefully this serves as a good warning story to the naive retards out there

>>512071245
More likely it's going to be an external bug. Something listening to keystroke sounds and converting that to text, which is very real. It applies to electronic keyboards as well.

>>512071396
Yes I had the thought- it’s the most likely method, but I felt the more physical method I described would be more tangible than the fact that different length rods vibrate at discernibly different frequencies when struck, and that it’s completely feasible to listen for those from quite a distance with proper amplification/directionality- or lasers

>>512056519 (OP)
will it play heroes of might and magic III?

>>512056519 (OP)
Just use a paper notebook or index cards for fucks' sake. Doesn't even require electricty. Yeet it into a bucket of water or fire or wet a shredder if you think the cops are coming after your super top secret info. Holy fuck.

>>512071700
Anon, now that just sounds plain inconvenient. Also, checked.

>>512071361
>>512070725
>>512070375
Nah, fuck off
That guys rights were violated and you are allowed to name you shit whatever you want.
Fuck you boot licking niggers

>>512070775
Are you underage or something? Shit like that has happened for years, because American citizens let their country made terrorism the word of the century.

>>512071700
Fucking stupid phone. That should have said "wet concrete".

>>512071843
Dude, I agree with you absolutely. Free speech and shit, it’s the literal foundation of our country. It’s a dangerous overstep of power and egregiously unconstitutional, but many judges do not care about such trivialities as they are in their own personal crusade. This anon, because he cannot afford a lawyer, will be made an example of, “for the betterment of society” in the mind of the judge/prosecutor involved, unless a really good ACLU lawyer gets ahold of it, which I frankly doubt very much due to the optics of appearing to defend 4chan or its user base in any form or fashion.

>>512071757
I thought inconvenience was the topic of this thread.

>>512072097
Oh. As you were then, carry on

>>512072080
He should kill the judge, prosecutor, their families, and bomb the police station "for the betterment of society"

>>512073093
IN MINECRAFT

>>512056844
Everybody was Kung Fu fighting.
Those cats were fast as lightning.
In fact, it was a little bit frightening.
But they fought with expert timing.

>>512073334
No irl, I been through enough similar shit myself, I've had the legal right to kill cops on numerous occasions and next time I'm to do it.

>>512073093
Modern problems require modern solutions, or so I’ve heard. I’ll leave it to his discretion as to how he finds peace or resolution in the matter.

this bad boy

>>512057154
devices still have value and use, no arguing that
modern devices are pozzed
older devices less or un-pozzed

>>512073757
Based. I can't wait until some high up police chief is on video raping kids, gets protected, not charged, then killed by a vigilante. It will be very funny.

>>512073949
Soul

>>512073757
I had a no-knock warrant served on a BS Petty Theft Auto charge, they even towed the car despite the fact that I produced the original title. My cunt sister had titled it and registered it in her name while I was straightening out my license(lost due to tolls on a car I previously sold), wrote me a bill of sale and gave me the signed title, hence why I hadn’t transferred registration- when she had a manic bi polar fit and got pissed, she got a duplicate title and filed a report saying it was stolen. The charges were dropped when the judge saw I had the original title/etc, but they still kicked in my front door and dragged my ass out of bed at 11PM on a Friday night. Expecting to roll up on a party, the wife and I were watching a movie in bed- this is a situation where I probably could have shot, as the arrest was unlawful, but corruption runs deep in rural WV, they would never let that fly or would kill me themselves if I was somehow cleared of wrongdoing. I no longer live or travel in that state.

>>512074164
>until some high up police chief ... then killed by a vigilante.
I've had the right to kill him too, he's not getting another chance
>It will be very funny.
I'll savor every moment

>>512056519 (OP)
>store their files in a RAM disk so as long as you dont install the backup coin battery you can just yeet the main battery and erase everything.
Unless thats behind several methods of encryption, its not really that useful. You know actual cops literally freeze RAM sticks with liquid nitrogen to let forensic agents do data analysis right? How hard can freezing a pocket PC and JTAG'ing it later on be

/pol/'s ultimate computer incoming, the IBM WorkPad Z50. Basically a Thinkpad running Windows CE.

>>512074278
I've had WV cops break into my house without a warrant and next time I'm going to kill them and every responding officer that shows up on scene

>>512074430
You see, keeping RAM powered up or as you allege, freezing the data with nitrogen, is that it only works if they secure the device while it’s on. The bit states are totally lost on power removal, and any claim to the contrary is bullshit vaporware that “experts” use to razzle-dazzle juries into convicting people.

>>512074466
Oh yeah, they’ll happily break a window and then claim it was already like that, giving them reasonable suspicion to do a wellness/premises check, they’ve pulled that one on me as well

I still use a modern pocket PC you fucking niggers
Kneel

>>512075127
No, I mean I have a cop on video opening my door without a warrant and I regret not shooting him in the face, next time I will shoot him in the face. Also I won't be going to court over it.

>>512074989
They used to sell ram memory cards too. their capacity is low so pictures are the best you can do unless you buy thousands and make a RAID array with a deadman switch thats activated when an alarm is tripped. Flash or magnetic disks still retain the data you delete, only the record of where on the chip it is gets deleted when you delete a file, cops can search through all the tracks and sectors manually to find it. Cutting power to these babies resets all of them to 0. Nothing for forensics to find.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/166968385621?_skw=pcmcia+ram+card&itmmeta=01K1PGR3VNZAKATTNJPQF088WC&hash=item26e0176055:g:HzUAAOSwHB1n~qGA&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA8FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1f9Sm8%2B6OvjyePeFiAYa3%2FXutu40Xax2c6OeUBrG%2BMvNy1hsETbOnKa5%2Bu%2BevfQtfCMvkcP%2BKB0HgDVuZZ9EgCUXmZLpdqM53H3cPrWfv%2FHN0h1j6TrDmYFcPhWo0qe5QoUiZB5biGRXSzuyA6J2IbQvftM96iCoA0Vmw14IZICq5qHq4TZChmfIZc4nPXOyLwiRCaq89--nWhjMmhLTNQ9rkh2fVDC6p7b3TkmU3C9IB%2BF1CxcxOoAinPapVNQQItPkdUqmSAwqRAN%2BfnMw0hLR2lz%2BSeXA02f8VdiM7A%2FCw%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR_y94NCNZg
>>512075324
New England is where the politicians live.

>>512075172
Based. They are overpriced due to their low volume through. Like $500 minimum. Thats a decent used desktop or laptop

>>512075324
Based stand upper for civil rights

>>512056519 (OP)
'ick on 'eck chads keep winning

>>512075658
I don't know what the fuck you're talking about, but look into ramdisks.
You can get a 32gb stick of ram and mount that shit like a hard drive. It would be real fat to overwrite with random shit and run the computer off a battery backup even if they cut power during a no knock

>>512056519 (OP)
>They also use proprietary connectors so the cops diagnostic tools wont work anyway.
Lmao if you believe this.

>>512075841

>>512074201
rip freeform electronics

>>512075790
Like 300 dollars for a used one
https://ebay.us/m/cW5BCc
Probably cheaper if you buy it on yahoo Japan since only nips buy these fucking things
Pretty much mainly for gayming and coding though but it’s a whole lot less gay than a steam deck because it has a fucking keyboard lol
When will the retards ever learn?

>>512062420
this is the world tech was supposed to have come to, but steve jobs the satanic aids cancer homosexual did to mobile what bill hates did to desktops|Captcha: TPMAN

>>512062111
>Those things will have unlatched security vulnerabilities
Hypothetically... But in practice, do you have said specific version of that one particular version of the exact script on hand for EVERY weird ass 30 year old device you may ever run into?

>>512076594
Not on my modern computer, I just have this selfie of you and the fact that windows has left xp vulnerable for 30 years

>>512076537
Imagine telling someone in the 1980s that they would sell computers with locked BIOS, and you don't get admin access. They would laugh at you. That's the majority of cell phones.

Google bought the patent for the modular smartphone just to sit ok it and kill the concept.

Nigger

>>512075658
These are not nand flash based devices for the most part. It is strictly SDRAM, not even Non-volatile RAM. Old school. But yes the Nand Flash memory chips are state steady without power, hence why usb thumb drives don’t require a battery or large capacitor.

>>512076830
There's multiple modular cellphone including one with a removable cellphone pcie card endorsed by stallman himself .

There's literally nothing stopping you from making one yourself. An arm cou and a hoard of removable m.2 and pcie cards are all readily Available.
Your biggest hangup will be video encoder drivers

>>512077103
I don't think there is. Nothing like this with standardized modules. Anyone who did this would be sued by Google.

China is our only hope!

>>512076830
I get the theory of what you’re saying and while I agree with the principle of open source hardware/software for end-user repairability, i can see why it would make sense for a smartphone manufacturer to make their own system on a chip and associated bootstrapping firmware(etc), because in theory, the configuration of the phones hardware is never going to change, beyond USB port capability. There’s no need for such a cumbersome and adaptable architecture like there is in the PC world.

>>512077282
Plus backwards compatibility with software was never really baked in to the design of smartphones, unlike the x86 architecture, which the entire point of is to always be able to run programs designed for the older hardware, no matter what. That is lost on modern engineers however, so now we must rely on emulation or actual vintage hardware.

>>512075324
I salute your stupidity and bravery. I hope your aim is as good and true as your righteousness.

>>512077428
For an example of how it’s lost on modern engineers and the public in general, observe how everyone shits their pants when some YouTuber posts a video of installing DOS on a brand new computer and running DOOM.

>>512076830
>>512077103
>>512077220
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wwrIpv38nE

tl;dr corpo killed it

>>512056519 (OP)
>no internet connection
fake, bluetooth and wlan was staple back then
>store their files in a RAM disk
>backup coin battery
>yeet main battery and erase everything
what the fuck is this feverdream, are you insane or smth
>proprietary connectors
"HP ipaq data cable" on aliexpress is all it takes, therefore dilate
Literally everything you wrote is either catergorically false, nonsense or something out of an imaginary fanfic, maybe you were the glownigger all along.
Please for the sake of humanity refrain from reproducing.

>>512077717
If phonebloks/project Ara survived, this thread probably wouldn't exist. You could just throw together whatever you wanted. Rever engineering individual components is much easier than a whole phone.

>>512078248
Reverse engineering is surprisingly simple, that is if your company is willing to directly copy fucking everything without even trying to make it look like they developed everything in-house. This was a main feature of a previous job I’ve had- characterizing, analyzing, studying to every last detail a competitors new innovative design, then create drawings etc, build it, make it work exactly identical to the model I was given. It was fun and engaging work but also extremely through, time consuming.

>>512077220
That's fag shit and a pipe dream.

My Internet is fucking up so I can't look up shit to post

There's been phones in the market that have removable lte cards and wifi cards , iirc they used mpcie or m.2 so you could literally throw it away and buy a new one for an authentic fresh iemi, or upgrade to a new technology.
Other Linux phones also allow you to simply change the iemi by accessing the LTE tranciever over the i2c or whatever and issuing commands. Even rooted Android phones can do this

The shit you posted is a meme.
Motorola has a pad array similar to that on their Motorola play series where you could attach different cases, it was basically a raspberry pi goio on the back of the phone, everything Fr m a camera to a boom box would utilize this.

My point is they cannot patent being module, they can only patent that particularly formfactor. You can just make your own. It's basically bitch shit you learn with babys first Arduino kit.
I2c
Uart
Analog goio
Digital goio
MPcie pin outs
M.2 pin outs
USB pin outs (m.2 key m iirc has pcie and USB)

>>512060102
It's actually windows mobile

>>512078480
X-box was not happy someone found out how to delete the operating system and install a virtual PC. You know it's was millions of dollars shut it down next gen.

Really idk how the fuck you whould avoid being tracked but hacking some Xbox bought in cash.

>>512061751
Also GPS is not transmitting to satellites from your device. It receives only and uses signal timing information to calculate your position locally.

This thread is stupid entirely. There is nothing that makes these devices secure.

>>512078485
>I2c
SPI
Etc
This is what I love about hardware- even with my mid 80’s logic analyzer/oscilloscope, the multiplexed bus signals have all remained the same, and while the CPU may operate at 3GHz or whatever, the communication bus does not, and is still well within the capabilities of my unit(which can also do external timing from the device under test, so there’s forwards compatibility). My fellow engineers shit themselves when they see that I’m able to get a perfectly readable data stream from such an old instrument, decoded automatically and everything.

This era of tech sucks

I use this

>>512078553
See
>>512065329

>>512056519 (OP)
Is my old hardware a threat to national security?

>>512078841
Yea, this shits been standardized for half a century.
I forgot to go into mipi and midi, idk how that holds up speed wise. They sorta hit a limit so just started adding more lanes like they did with PCI x16, you'll need a dozen channels or a stack of oscilloscopes at his point

>>512078855
Checked. 7 was fucking manna from heaven compared to Vista. Same hardware and everything(which many people upgraded in anticipation of Vista), fresh install of Vista Pro? Runs dogshit slow, I mean unimaginably slow compared to XP. No game ever ran well on it, you could throw max RAM into it, upgrade HDD and increase RAMDisk, everything you could think of. Zero improvement, sometimes even got worse. Windows 7 came out and was exactly what Vista should have been, had it not been rushed. Machines booted in what was the blink of an eye for the day(15 seconds, maybe 20). Games ran fast and smooth at maximum graphics, cpu loads were down, memory usage down, etc. You had to be there and living the hell of the moment to understand I guess.

>>512079126
My logic analyzer has 40 probes for state and timing measurements, plus two standard 1Ghz bandwidth scope channels. It is from 1985 and recently calibrated at the expense of my employer. I had to bring in all my own shit to do my job because my equipment was leagues better than theirs, which is a sad affair considering we make bomb robots for Foster Miller/Qinetiq

>>512062485
WHEN YOU WANT TO SEND AND RECEIVE CHILD PORN ON THE DARKNET

There! You happy now champ?

>>512079507
>we make bomb robots for Foster Miller/Qinetiq
Funny, I design the bombs and counter robot technology

>>512079669
Idk if tor is supported on these devices, of course I get that you’re just giving him the obvious response he was looking for, but I wouldn’t put it past a reporter to plant a question like that, or even just come across it after the fact, then run with it in reporting that all people interested in security/signals/pentesting is a home-grown terrorist part of a international collection of sleeper cells. So I’d be careful with such statements, I like coming here.

>>512079715
Neat. I used to work for a place that had many contracts with Boeing, Pratt, Dassault, the naval nuclear submarine warfare company in RI and one in CT, and I had the pleasure of overseeing quality and personally performing all tests for MK something or other portable missile launch platforms- big yellow pelican case. And some shit for satellites. Neat that I’ve touched things in space, but I didn’t like building weapons systems. Now that we’re changing to a COTS based system, everyone is potentially building systems to be used in weapons. Awesome.

>>512074098
I have a bunch of old PCs in my closet, windows 98, XP, 7
I used the windows 98 pc a few years back for nostolgia, the background was a picture of the collie I had when I was a kid. I played Age of Empires, Knights of the Old Republic and Morrowind.

I wanted to play zoo tycoon, but I can't find the disk, I think my sister has it.

>>512078900
Fucking macfags

>>512080160
Make hard disk images with clonezilla. Mechanical drives fail.

>>512080160
Zoo Tycoon is abandonware anon, it’s available for free. Either burn the ISO to disk or use something like Virtual CloneDrive to mount the ISO as your D:\ CD/DVD drive. It is important that you change the drive letter assigned if necessary so that the virtual ISO is D:\.

>>512080680
https://archive.org/details/zoo-tycoon-complete-collection

>>512080680
Sigh. *disc
Stupid slip due to misspelling in question. Disks are magnetic media. Discs are optical.

>>512080525
Very important for everybody who values their data. Make frequent images of your hard drives! And fucking update them. I recommend having a couple drives you regularly swap out, one local backup and one off site- once a week/month, make a copy and swap it with the offsite drive. When you lose data you cared about, you make sure it only happens once.

>>512056519 (OP)

Be careful with your exploding gadgets

i still have my palm pilot from the 90s. i take it out of my dresser to play with it while i poop sometimes. i can't even remember the last time it was charged. i think maybe 2007? Thing just won't die. Should i be worried that there's a demon living inside of it that feeds off my poop and piss fumes?

>>512080159
>MK something or other
That ultra program? A lot of good guys pass through there, a few make something great out of themselves

>>512081424
Nah it's just nickel cadmium. Same batteries used in power tools.

>>512081424
A fucking Rolodex button

Holy shit, most people itt won't even know what the fuck that is. This device was literally made for and by people that died of old age literally decades ago. The fact that it's in color and backlit is mind boggling

>>512081473
No it was the beginning of the model name for the launcher. MK III Aegis or something like that. Idk I just flipped switches and traced faults to the component level(they only gave me a multimeter, i had to bring my logic analyzer here, too), had someone rework it, then reinspected/tested
>>512081424
Had this model in middle school, was kino, can confirm demons are the friendly variety

>>512078855
Based. Windows 7 is so fucking amazing. i still keep an old laptop with a custom XP build, so simple and pure, i play this https://store.steampowered.com/app/4800/Heroes_of_Annihilated_Empires/ and other old gems on it.

>>512081551
Don't you use fancy namey words with me pal.
>>512081615
i used to always fuck with them and shuffle them to random pages on peoples desks when my dad would take me on his bullshit fucking errands to different auto shops.

>>512081615
>>512081424
Ancient technology for dead generations who thought it was cutting edge at the time.

>>512081899
Pic sauce?

>>512081899
Get fucked faggot as a jogger slams ancient technology through your skull.

>>512081899
>>512082141
It really was an uninformed statement, anon. Sure, there were super basic personal organizers that had a tiny screen for saving contacts, calendar info, and maybe a couple short notes, but they were as large as a mini-planner and not even half as useable. When PDA’s hit the scene with it was a whole new ball game, actually more convenient than what it set out to replace, and more usable for more tasks, once they got the stylus technology down. Even handwriting recognition was surprisingly accurate.

>>512081899
>>512082385
Come to think of it, this must be a bait post. They were literally computers that you could fit into your shirt pocket, full blown email communicators and news/ticker/weather/music/etc all in one. When we saw this kind of cutting edge unimaginable technology in 1990, people literally shat their pants in delight and amazement. This is fucking undeniable.

>>512082385
They were a game changer. Quite literally like the automobile. People were doing more, faster, with greater ease.

>>512081899
You’re just mad you weren’t alive at a time when innovation was still happening, things were moving up as new technologies became accessible to more and more people. The time of innovation for the masses is over, and the time of innovations for mega-corps has long begun. Starship tech will never trickle down to effect society like NASA’s- they literally wrote the quality standards that are the backbone of wire harness/crimp/splice/solder/box build manufacturing industry to this day. As the military’s tech improved, those innovations quickly found their way into everyday American life.

>>512057545
You're retarded.

>>512082686
I always wonder who the fuck this guy is, what his rig even was, and who paid for all of that shit

It looks 1960s, all of it, except his monitors are in color, but it's all way too fucking big to be 90s

>>512082686
One of my favorite observatory console pics. What I’d give to have a complete mainframe, or even a mini-computer would be fine. Keeping my eyes peeled, someday one will come my way.

>>512082871
Forgot pic

>>512082974
A fucking Gameboy has more processing power

Save your money and put a netbook in a giant box you ductaped together
I'm jelly of that chair though, you know that shits comfy

>>512057366
>Can you explain why you would want to use this?
>I don’t think I’ve used my computer for non-internet in a decade.

>>512082938
It's AI.

>>512056519 (OP)
y-yeah I'll stick to my lineageOS xperia z2 tyvm

>>512056519 (OP)
I had a palmpilot for years that thing was based as fuck.

>>512061496
>and they are rechargable so you aren't playing battery games.

You can buy really nice lithium AA/AAA/C/D/etc batteries now that are rechargeable and last far longer than oldschool batteries before needing to be recharged again.

>>512083020
>troon on the right

>>512083275
I've been seeing it since before AI though

>>512082938
>>512082974
Let's all pool our money together and get this setup, and we can hold hands while taking turns using it.

>>512083020
i have this series downloaded as one of my things i fall asleep to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJYsA1jXf60&t=185
i love the story of Microsoft coming up as a behemoth with computers and then the unique stories behind the scenes and how volatile it was. The last couple episodes are fucking gay as fuck, but if you can at least make it to the second episode/the Valentine's Day Massacre; fucking amazing. Would have loved to been in the room with popcorn listening to nerds just fucking annihilate each other and insult them out of a room for not being a big enough nerd.

Or you can just skip the foreplay and watch the juicy part here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT_i6hXf9WU&t=800s

Shitting on people is just one of the greatest human passions in life.

>capchka
All my Ruff Ryders Nazis nigga Heil Hitler.

>>512083275
>>512083670
Me too. I cannot find the article now, but I know years ago I was reading something about what people in the 70s and 80s thought would come of the PC- a world where you can truly work anywhere, from anywhere. I know I’ve seen this picture of an astronomer or someone in the field of mapping the stars, working from home in the sort of office of tomorrow.

Arthur C Clarke was someone who firmly believed that would take hold, and the rich bastard got to do so too, working from home in Ceylon(Sri Lanka). I think the artifacts are either due to being a scan, or due to low-res nature of the time.

>>512083517
Those did not exist then, they were a fairytale of things to come, not out in public, only in small clinical settings and a few breakaway basement communities.

>>512083873
>Sucking microsharts dick this hard in 2025

>>512084277
They did exist, and it's in the photo.

>>512084355
>2025
Huh?
Retarded or 'just pretending' to be retarded?

>>512085127
You do know there's a ton of ai spamming 4chan like crazy, right? Like real people are rare.

Here's something you can do with an hp handheld: Teeline shorthand

Did you know a few Teeline Gold books have been added to Anna's Archive?

>>512085127
You're sleeping to gloating about the worst company to happen to modern civilization..

>>512085238
Retard

>>512085242
Personally, I use Linux.

But we need to be thinking about getting towards minimal computation, air gaps, and inspected rate limited packets.

Here's how we get the left involved:
>upcycling!
>reduced power draw!

the real reason for old designs:
>simpler chips = easier to inspect
>most bugs are known
>slower means less to inspect

Single core is a huge benefit in terms of eliminating backdoor stuff.

And low power means that the machine doesn't have a lot of spare clock cycles to "be" bugged.

If you've ever dealt with a pc full of malware, you know how much overhead spy stuff taxes the system.

>>512085297
^ insult bot. mossad approved.

>>512065768
I also want to know who tf FC is


also, blessed captcha

>>512084355
While AI/etc may be spammed here, I think this guy is deriding you for having an interest in the history of the rise and fall of Microsoft or early computing in general. He’s come to the conclusion that because you enjoy or have nostalgia for old Microsoft, it equates to a current love/full support of Microsoft. This is an obviously false correlation.

>>512085559
You're the fucktard that can't recognize the current year

>>512086023
Freedom Club or some shit, see above

>>512056844
kitty wtf

>>512085127
>>512086118

>>512086118
If you don't use the machine on the Internet, and you use Linux to move files, nsa malware that may be on single core devices like that simply won't be effective.

Most spy stuff back then operated on the assumption of promiscuous use of media.

>>512073949
These things can communicate with each other when they’re in range, right? Could be a cool way to communicate with friends.

>>512086118
You replied to the wrong guy, I'm shitting on him for swooning over gates like aplel fag sucking jobs hiv cock

>>512059299
>Camera
You know how shitty the cameras on those things are?

>>512086233
Yeah no shit. i love 60s and earlier Fords.
>HEY DID YOU KNOW FORD FAGGOTS?!

>>512086511
right, the easiest way to "do stuff" is not arduino, it's raspberry pi.

So, as cute as these things are, why not just a laptop? Preferably some old thinkpad or a cyberdeck if you feel like doing a project.

>>512086118
he
>>512086360

is a bot

>>512086589
well, that old cpu is single core, and very low power.

This basic idea is pretty genius:
>no more cpu or ram than you need

leaves little room for the nsa.

>>512086573
*promotes faggots
Alright i'm goin to bed, with my sweet sweet nerds nerding out about nerdy nerd shit.

>>512067443
Their shit has been fucked for at least a decade.
When their search started returning results with antonyms of my keywords highlighted, I knew it was sun-setting.
The SEO scourge seems like an excuse for the quality decline.

>>512086360
I know, my bad, corrected above.
>>512086233
But again man I don’t see how what he said correlates to an endorsement of 2025 M$. But it’s all good this is a website for ragging on whomever you wish for any given reason or lack thereof. As you were.
>>512086573
Love the 60’s fords, the 409 side slinger was a legend. But something about the land yachts of the 70s pulls me in. Miss my 78 thunderbird. Night fren

>>512086610
>Everyone that points out that I'm s childish retard is a bot

>>512060034
I miss this form factor - will always remind me of that Atari John Connor had in T2.
>easy money
Pretty rad device, tho - like the keyboard.

>>512087246
ngl you sound female.

Look, I don't even like kikes, I don't know why you're so into me.

Brainlet here.
Wouldn't another smartphone just without a sim card function as the same thing?

>>512087425
You started calling me a bot because you didn't know what year we were in, then started posted about me to other anons
You're the one into me

>>512071978
your comments don't make any sense.

Getting the ick from that kike.

>>512073949
Heh, I had one of those. It has so little storage even text would fill it quickly. And I think they did it like Nintendo peripherals where they release something that sounds great and then never support it again.

>>512056519 (OP)
One conspiracy theory I believe is that the government has worked to kill the UMPC market and promote cell phones.

>>512082567
> this must be a bait post.
>>512082871
>You’re just mad you weren’t alive at a time when innovation was still happening,
It was a joke, brothers, calm thy flesh.

>>512088049
Ok, I’m going to let this one slide. I’ve met zoomers who are in IT but never heard of IBM let alone the 5150 so your post was plausible in my book.

>>512078855
Actually anything past XP sucks. 7 introduced a bunch of proprietary bullshit that made independent software not work anymore and was the first seriously unstable version of Windows on the market.

>>512087759
Welp, it's full circle, we don't have to stay in this situation, our liberation is soon.

Right now, you can't buy
>zero camera
>zero microphone
phone replacements, at least not with any real consistency. Like there are DAP (digital audio players). But they tend to be extra expensive thanks to the extra fancy audio.

But yeah, we are getting CLOSE.

But keep your eyes on the ball:
>many tasks
>many desks
>many computers
>none overpowered
>airgapped

>>512088187
Interested in Teeline shorthand? I have a thread on /g/

>>512087426
No. Old school PDA’s (see specs I posted way earlier in thread) relied on standard SDRAM for internal storage- same thing as DDR4 in concept. If you remove power, data gone, unlike with nand flash memory, which was brand new and expensive back then. USB sticks use nand. But to keep data loaded in RAM once must always have power, hence the secondary coin battery these all had.

>>512080159
>>512081473
You two are fags. You should cum in each other's butts.

>>512056519 (OP)
Once I saw a video of somebody 3D modeling a soda bottle on one of these and it looked really high quality. I never felt so inferior in my life

>>512088470
Yeah, old devices were easy to panic wipe.

>>512088505
It's ai, dawg.

>>512088426
Intriguing frankly

>>512088614
No, it’s just autistic. Happens all the time, I consider it high praise.

>>512056519 (OP)
I owned about 6 of them I worked at thrift. They are incredibly slow, to the extent merely typing would hang the xp or me they come with. They are compatible with pretty much nothing, can barely run ancient emulators they had trouble with nesticle and and zones. The battery is so obsolete even a new one would last about 2 hours. They can't surf the modern Internet they are so obsolete and nobody makes apps or browsers for them currently so unless you're writing your own operating system this is not a viable path. I sold them all in a lot to a person like you lol 275.

>>512088614
THEY'RE MAKING THE FRICKING CHATBOTS GAY!!

>>512088751
Zsnes* but yeah knock yourself out they are shit

>>512088751
>They are compatible with pretty much nothing

:^)

see, you zoomers don't get it.

You think that's a bad thing

>heckin emulators

the nsa doesn't want to spy on your speedruns

>>512088839
They are useless. Try running whonix on one

>>512088361
>>many tasks
>>many desks
>>many computers
>>none overpowered
>>airgapped
Can you explain what you mean by this?

>>512088912
Why would you replace a perfect operating system that is already implemented? Windows PDA/CE was the shit. And frankly I think there’s a big enough hobbyist community to develop some pretty slick apps, firmware updates for added functionality, etc. after drumming up some interest. I’m positive the source code can be acquired for these by now, and once you’ve got that you’re pretty well golden, but even without, there’s sufficient documentation for brewing your own.

>>512089219
It was already leaked in the Microsoft leaks.

>>512087426
>Sim card function
You can take your sim card out of your smart phone and it would function the same way until you pop it back in. Only difference would be wifi functionality, but you can disconnect that too.

>>512089303
Well then 99% of the work is already done. Excellent. For me this is a back-burner project, I’m still deep into implementing a GSM/CDMA cell infrastructure (without using original hardware, too damn expensive!) for my Nokia tri-band and Motorola International 8100. I already have a functional pager network, Flex/Pocsag which was my proof of concept more or less, but that’s 155MHz rather than 800/900/1200 etc.

>>512088703
I'm not the one falling asleep to microjeet worship videos then calling anyone that points out it's gay and retarded an ai

>>512056519 (OP) (OP)

I use a faraday cage with modern tech. When things get weird it goes into the bag until it stops acting weird. If it keeps acting weird after that I start poking around in it. If that looks normal I start looking at my wifi security in general. If that looks normal and things are still weird I assume I have an audience and look at some really fucked up shit.

>>512089809
Ok, neither am I?

>>512064249
Mah nigga

>>512056519 (OP)
It was only a couple years ago I was still using one of these things for book scanning. The Ram memory was horrible. Ooops the battery fell out because it's old and the cover fell off when I bumped it. Whole drive freaking factory reset. Spend an hour reinstalling. I still like it's tactile feel and stylus use over an iphone.

>>512056519 (OP)
Windows mobile master race

>>512089818
Anon, are you remembering to restart your phone once per week? Everyone in my family eventually comes up to me with their iPhone and tells me such and such app won’t work at all, or some feature stopped working, or a website won’t load that works on their laptop, all kinds of shit. Every time, first thing, I turn it off. On power up, problem solved. Idk if it’s just a general software glitch due to jeet programming or if it’s because they picked up one of the non-persistent viruses the NSA/FBI has been warning people about. They say once per week as well, restart.

>>512089893
The other guy is

>>512076857
yes, nigger.

>>512067907
It's true man. Especially if you invite them over to see your CRT TV collection. Their generation has nothing so they try to fit in with what millennials

>>512090573
This is an interesting development, I was unaware of this. I have an NES, SNES, N64 and PS1 connected to a 20” Magnavox, it’s a square wood grain one. And a 30” white CRT monitor for my PIII vintage gaming rig, not to mention an Apple IIc hooked up to a server via serial cable, giving it access to every single Apple disk image this world has available.

>>512090260
Yes, nigger.

>>512091147
Alright but you really can’t blame me for asking. Maybe it’ll be useful advice for someone on here. Doubt it though.

>>512056519 (OP)
>gives off wireless signatures
>running Windows OS
>implying it's not comp'd
lol, lmao even

I've got a Sharp Zaurus SL-6000W around somewhere. Slide out keypad and touchscreen (stylus), full Linux system, RS232 cable, USB host (try finding a mini-A cable in 2003), wifi/BT, 400 MHz, 64 MB of RAM, CF and SD card slots. All shoved into a ~6"x3" package and years before the iPhone was announced. I loved that little thing.

>>512056519 (OP)
These things are fucking usless just get an old to android on linux bro

>>512091483
Thanks for dropping that info, I had to look it up based on that dope description, and I think I’ve found my next frivolous purchase.

>>512091144
>access to every single Apple disk image this world has available.
She doesn't have the apple images from other words

Get gud sweety

>>512091144
>access to every single Apple disk image this world has available.
She doesn't have the apple images from other worlds

Get gud sweety

>>512091638
I remember the 5500 having better community support than the 6000 because it was kind of late in the product line. Also, there were some really cool JP-only clamshell versions in the product family. Hell, the SL-C3200 had a 6 GB HDD shoved in there somehow.

Honda triple smart phone

>>512056519 (OP)
You can buy, or make, modern Linux versions of this that can actually browse the modern internet or run modern apps programs like MPV, Davinci Resolve, FreeCAD. Buy a tiny SoC motherboard and solder a screen to it, Set it up with AES-256 full disk encryption there is no concern for police accessing it short of waiting for the development of sufficiently advanced quantum computer to crack the password, which is the point at which all encryption fails far into the future. The only issue is Intel x86 is bulky and may not fit in your pocket with all the fans and shit, while ARM devices have less software avialble, meaning you may not be able to fansub anime on ARM or some other niche activity.

>>512078761
so, like any garmin shit ?

so blackberries, or whatever new branded device all the jewish appointed politicians use to maintain plausible deniability

You will never be a chicken surfing silver hoverboard while using a honda triple smart phone to play mmmorpgs that red pill the masses about how jews do fractional resrve banking and use aipac to influence where foreign aid money goes.

>>512092041
Have you seen the insides of the original iPod mini? I can’t recall who manufactured it-Maxar? hitachi? Anyway it’s a teensy miniaturized HDD, 1.8” or maybe even 1.6”.

>>512078761
>>512092175
Several gos have been busted storing your location and speed and when you plug it into the computer it mails it back to the company who then sold the data to cops to know where to set up speed trap

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/consumer-alert-tomtom-reportedly-sold-gps-user-data-to-police-to-target-motorists/

My new phone has webternet internet 4.0 fully loaded with offramped DaPPs so i can start a micro business and securly transact using decentralized validators to minimize token slip which bypasses stonecase; it can basically do everyth-AAAAAAAACK

>>512092296
On that note, WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE HOVERBOARDS I WAS PROMISED? Back to the Future ripped me off, I want a refund! Now it’s up to me to perfect the technology because no one else will, apparently.

>>512092382
Holy shit

>>512092490
>elon musk?
More like stealin much, tesla is a scam btw. Basically enron 2.0

>>512092523
If you think that's bad, check the date

>>512092490
Companies go to india to die.
>enron india: death
>apple india: stock price plummets
>tesla india: future enron

>>512056519 (OP)
>not using palmos
ngmi

>>512092572
Nah. If I had his kind of money I’d be trying to do something to uplift society, but not in the literal sense all the way to mars, more in the figurative sense.

>>512092052
Not sure how I feel about that future proposed in there.

>>512092622
Speaking of that era, thats when tesla began receiving boat loads of carbon credits which became the main source of their revenue for the past 15 years. The big beautiful bill ended carbon credits [as of September 30th 2025] and the EV rebate for 7500 bucks also ends, tesla has barely made any money selling cars, most of their income was from selling those credits to GM or Ford.

>>512062111
>Those things will have unlatched security vulnerabilities that a simply publicly available script can exploit and give you full control over the device

Why not just make something yourself using a raspi (or similar)? Modern OS, modern whatever. Use an overlay FS in ramdisk so that flipping a switch means everything is wiped.

Actually pretty sure you can just compile LineageOS or whatever custom ROM such that it does everything as an overlayfs in ramdisk and use it on nearly any smartphone.

>>512092622
Didn't have to. TomTom was ancient even back in 2011.

>>512071245
You need physical access to do that, anything online can be hacked from the comfort of your internet cafe in Bangladesh.

No defense is perfect, but some walls are harder to get over than others.

>>512092754
LMAO

Lithium batteries are horrible for the environment and Tesla's are fucked shit that you cannot service.
There's a nigger in YouTube that ought a totaled I've, he couldn't get parts or schematics, everything was locked down. I think he would up just dropping a v8 into it

>>512092773
I have one of these things as a meme. The creators stopped pushing software updates ages ago, but you can get modern debian running on it with some mild effort.

I basically just use it for portable wifi tomfoolery. It's not really powerful enough for anything else, and the screen res is kinda ass for anything that isn't just a TMUX window.
I'm sure someone has designed a more modern alternative using a pi cm5 or similar.

>>512062111
>load device with questionable and illegal content
>go to places where known data slurpers lurk
>let them steal the data, they rub their hands
>now they have illegal content on their device
>tell the cops, synagogue gets closed for good
I am a hero

I'm buying up as much hardware and spare parts I can before the war with China and global supply chains collapse. To hell with GPUs, good luck getting a PCU, Hard Drives or just fucking batteries when supply chains dry up.

You you say I'm crazy.

>>512092814
They were making new shit at that time, big screens etc
The company wasn't new, but you talk like they were still selling the first model

>>512065768
also fucking saved

>>512092907
>cyberduck
Theres a few different ones of these but they always sellout faster then nigs and chicken.
The RPI type are the best for full linux, the ppl making them with ESP and less are kinda tarded..

>>512056844
https://youtu.be/wFNr9FnpZBk?si=JzJBvmNdEthsoCyN

I switched from this to look up this "pocket pc" horse shit

>>512092636
Indeed it is. I’d be interested in starting a new wave of manufacturing jobs in the so-called Appalachian tech corridor- the tech project will fail, the people aren’t capable. But they can be taught to make wire harnesses, use auto-strippers/auto-crimpers, and plug wire A into terminal position 1. Box-build contract manufacturing. Manufacturing isn’t hi tech like the media says- your main tool won’t be a laptop or tablet(except for schematics), it’ll be hand tools, like always.

>>512092907
Didn't buy that soi shit
It's a fucking exploded circuit board ffs

>>512092773
Threads almost dead, yea. Too much to go into.

>>512082974
Nigger thats AI.

>>512093025
>the ppl making them with ESP and less are kinda tarded..
I have one of the TTGO watch style ESP ones. It's pretty much just a gimmick unless you already have a very specific project in mind.

... and my project was already a WIP port of hcxdumptools to esp32. And there's a SSH client that someone made for esp32. So basically all i can do with mine is capture some wifi auth packets and maybe SSH to a real machine.
Kinda useless apart from that unless you want to spend shitloads of time programming something custom for it. Maybe, just maybe, it's powerful enough to play doom on or emulate a NES.

>>512093202
It's older than AI faggot

>>512060102
>It’s Windows . . . you ignoramus

>>512092983
*glances over at tote box upon tote box of 2-12TB drives and more DDR3/DDR4 than I know what to do with
I’m gonna be rich!

>>512092361
I replaced mine with a 512GB cf card

>>512093151
>Didn't buy that soi shit
>It's a fucking exploded circuit board ffs

I got it secondhand from a friend for like 10$. It was basically perfect for what i wanted... a portable hcxdumptools/aircrack-ng thing. I didn't want to spend the effort strapping a screen, battery, and shitty keyboard to one of my existing Pis either.

Probably should've just gone with a rooted pixel and a usb wifi dongle. That would've made a lot more sense.
.. or whatever this fucking contraption is that i made for work lmao.

>>512093446
Good call.i have MFM drives that still work, no errors outside of those from factory. 10, 20Mb. Lmao. Full size, that’s two 5.25 drive bays.

>>512093541
Also my use case.

>>512093541
Interesting, an esp32 adapter molded in to an iPhone case, type C

>>512092983
>t. future mad max cyberpunk black market merchant

>>512093828
pixel 5 case, but yeah. Close enough.
It was for wifi tomfoolery without requiring root and without getting in the way of the phone's wifi connection.
There's space for 2 esps. The idea was to eventually have multiple esps with their own directional antenna / phased array shit.
If this went any further, we would've started making custom boards with 3+ esp chips on them and antennas directly etched onto the board. This was mostly a proof-of-concept that strapping an esp32 to an android phone had benefits.

>>512094066
Many many interesting applications within that description.

>>512094066
>>512093716
>>512093541
I still say there's a million better options, especially if you're trying to do air crack or dump

Every time I see buttons like that, the device has about 3 months to live

>>512090260
Never restart your phone. That's how forced updates are installed. Guaranteed ticking clock to brick town.

>>512091413
Is this the new army ranger outfit?

>>512094136
Yeah, research is always a fun environment, Plenty of opportunities to come up with a dumb idea in the shower, spend a few days making it work, and then flying out with it to demonstrate it to customers.
I'd highly suggest that field if you're into tinkering.


>>512094230
>if you're trying to do air crack or dump
Yes, you can even get airodump running on older pixels... Just can't do packet injection.
But... that requires root. The use case for this was completely stock phone with only an APK loaded on. We were also working on making the esp32 pretend to be a usb flash drive and supply the APK directly from it.

>>512094251
Truly forced updates restart for you

>>512094378
I’m in that field fellow “just make it werk” anon

>>512094251
If you're truely worried about that, get custom roms instead. Ideally ones you can compile yourself on your own machines. Lineage is really good for that.

>>512094390
I've had at least two phones that were bricked because I couldn't use the phone feature without starting the phone and then were instantly bricked as a planned obsolescence feature. In the last case, I knew not to restart the phone and did it anyway. It was fucked from that day. Couldn't connect to wi-fi at all after.

>>512094434
Always fun. "3am at an anime con programming some python to trick a TAK server into accepting location pings while still wearing last night's cosplay and not quite sober yet" type fun.

>>512094531
Sorry for your loss- my only temporary bricking were firmware update hangups, resolved with a PIC programmer

>>512094551
Kek I’m on a slightly different area(semiconductor manufacturing automation, wafer handling and photolithography etc). But yours sounds more fun.

>>512094596
I tend to use older phones so it's kind of inevitable.