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not weird at all actuallyā¦ itās just sad.
RANT IN PROGRESSā¦
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Almost nothing in China has a SKU or part number. Everything is meaningless communist garbage bereft of everything a good solid capitalist business is built on; consistency, reliability, producing a quality product, producing based on customer need. None of this really matters over there, so what you get is just a suffocating deluge of absolute chaotic trash being pumped out the collective Chinese product pipe.
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All magic chips come from China because nobody else apparently has the fuck-you-balls to make them, nor the safety of a murky-at-best culture which ensures you will not win as a foreign entity (NXP, Philips, Infineon, etc.) in a fight against a black sludge that is the protectionist Chinese legal system.
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Chinese vendors you deal with are often 10x removed from manufacturing, but even the manufacturer will just toss a bunch of āchips you can change the UID ofā into a pile and start making things with them. What one person in one company calls a CUID, another person in that very same company will just call a UIDā¦ or something different. In fact the whole idea of calling these things āgen1ā and āgen2ā came from the rest of the fucking confused AF world who operate like normal human beings who want to try to nail down some sort of common naming convention ā¦ you know ā¦ how language worksā¦ like, you see an apple and you apply a symbolic name to it like āappleāā¦ but then you notice there are different colors and types, so you make names that differentiate each according to their unique specifics like honeycrisp and gala and red deliciousā¦ but in China, where they have 20 different words for love and over 30 different words for death, when it comes to part numbersā¦ itās all just āwhatever manā. How they became the manufacturing capital of the world is beyond meā¦ i meanā¦ i know howā¦ money / cost ā¦ but shit man seriouslyā¦ wtf.
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We have had this same issue when we buy parts / chips to make implants withā¦ or products with chips we need to extractā¦ weāll order 100 gen2 chips and get 79 gen2 chips, 8 gen1 chips, 20 that donāt work at all, and 2 that are something we have no clue about. You can set specifications, make demands, and do basically anything you can think of to establish some sort of inventory control on just what the fuck youāre paying for, but itās all for notā¦ they will simply never bother and send you whatever shit they have. Unless you fly there and watch over their shoulders, you can never fully trust or count on anythingā¦ and forget ever getting a refundā¦ you will never get a refund. At best they will have you roll the dice again and ātry to do betterā on your next orderā¦ like imagine that shitā¦ you ordered a hammerā¦ i sent you a wrenchā¦ you want to send the wrench back and get a hammerā¦ or get your money backā¦ and i say āhow about you order another hammer and weāll see if we can get it right this timeā¦ iāll even give you a 40% discount on your next hammer order!āā¦ fuck me.
I once had a conversation with someone about why China is so chaotic in this way, and they said this - The Chinese culture is 100% about how things feel, not how they are. In fact, the more you try to show them logic and reasoning, the more they think youāre trying to scam them. The more you argue about whoās right and whoās wrong, the more they shun you and actively try to harm whatever interests youāre pursuing.
After learning this I tried interacting with vendors using pure emotion instead - Oh I am so sad that I only received 79 working chips that conform to my specifications. My boss is angry and I may lose my job and my family may have to starve because 20 chips didnāt work at all. I dwell in darkness without my full order and I fear my soul may be consumed by demons unless I receive what I need.
This approach only slightly improved things. Probably because I donāt know 30+ ways to communicate the nuance of Death in Chinese.
ā¦ i will never stop this rant.
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I do OEM service for specialized industrial equipment, i (on more than 1 occasion) got some service request for serial number that didt seam quite right ā¦ after some pictures, it clearly didnt look like a machine we made, the suff was slightly off, wrong color wire, wrong screw head, wrong terminal block ā¦ turns out, a shop in China made some ācloneā copies of out machine to sell in china. we tried to buy one to see, and it got seized at custom for not having th eproper paperwork 
I had the same experience when i tried to order bulk blanks for laser engraving. There is a great video of some small shop who went through it, ill digg it out.
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Just tried to order a god dammned product key for windows 11.
Had to solve two back to back captha with 9 different puzzles each in order to sign up for a blank account that I donāt want and WILL abandon just as soon as they dump the product key in it, which may take up to 24 hours, so why donāt you just be a good little monkey and go ahead and sign up with your account, huh? Itās free, itās easy, and it only takes a portion of your soul and all of your privacy.
Whenever that goddam mess clears, then I get to alter the windows ISO so that I can install on a local account (silly me thinking I own my own PC), AND by pass the hardware checks so that I can install without having TPM, which is absolutely non negotiable to microsoft and which doesnāt do a goddamn thing for me.
FUCK MICROSOFT!!!
Oh, did I mention that I just barely saw the notification that theyāre going to keep my credit card on file for my convenience so that I can buy anything, anywhere Iām logged in? NO THANK YOU, in fact, just FUCK RIGHT OFF. That was immediately deleted from my throwaway account.
(hey @amal, wanna trade rants???)
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I entirely understand the want/need for Windows/etc that some people have. I truly get it, but:
I am very grateful that I was able to move over to GNU+Linux and GrapheneOS (A(ndroid)OSP Fork). I feel so much more free. Yes, it is more work. Yes, some things donāt work occasionallyā¦ But I value my freedom and privacy too much to allow whoever these companies are to control my modern existence. Some people of certain political [groups] seem to go on and on about freedom and libertyā¦ Then they pause for one moment to watch a video on TikTok using their Samsung S25 Galaxy Ultra with 
Galaxy AI and repost it on facebook and DM it to someone on snapchatā¦
No, I donāt maintain a perfect digital footprint. But a lot of people who know that these services and products are objectively abusive and donāt even try to fight back just a little bitā¦ Come on, these companies are powerful not just because of the people who donāt understand, but also people just being too lazy to try to avoid them.
(@ODaily good on you for keeping your āold and outdatedā hardware. If you ever want a Windows key hit me up, and keep in mind most Win7 or later keys do transfer āupā in some way.)
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well ā¦ i attempted a self install on a flex ā¦ its a 
compared to the x-serie ā¦
I know i didnāt went as deep as i should, hopefully its deep enough 
we should know in a few days 
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Did you make it to the etch mark on the needle?
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nope 
self install is fine with X-series but the 5G needle is a bit big and deep to not have a second hand tenting thing as it goes in ā¦
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For sure. Well, yeah, rejection risk is in the elevated category. Iām thinking good thoughts for ya.
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The KT tape method is underrated for self installs imho
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thanks, not much more than waiting-and-see now ā¦
i was using a binder clip and pulled it up and back ā¦ again works great with X-series, but a bit light for the 5G
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Whatād you get? (Specific implant)
the UG4 in R3
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Hell yeah! Good luck!
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all your support motivated me to change the bandage and actually look at it for real, and its starting to close up, not out of the woods yet, but not lost yet 
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The pm3 says gen2, how would I check if itās configured as gen2 but actually gen4? Sorry, Iām still a pm noob!
Holyā¦ What in the fresh hell is this, and this explains so much.
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script run hf_mf_ultimatecard
this will run the gen4 script, in the help (add -h at teh end) there is a command to read teh card. This should let you know teh spec of the gen4.
you can also add a -t to change the card type. If it changes, its a gen4
This will change to ntag210:
script run hf_mf_ultimatecard -t 15
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I believe hf mf info can also detect Gen4
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