My shiny new tiny laptop, or UMPC. It's a no-name Chinese model, and it blows my old GPD Pocket (R.I.P.) away. It's so much better. It's a bit heavy though being made of milled aluminum, but it'll live in my purse anyway. I'll make some sort of video overview after I've used it for a while. #tinythings #umpc #shiny #cute
@Lydie wow it's cool! what are the specs?
@vavakado 12GB DDR5, 512GB SSD, 8" IPS, Intel N150 CPU, all metal build, can fold into a tablet. Cost less than $500 bucks.
@Lydie ooooh aliexpress link please. or maybe not, cause i might buy it.
@Lydie incredible. 19.8 cm x 11.4 cm. you plan to keep windows on there? or have another plan for it?
@tootbrute I installed Win10 LTSC, as I'm a Windows girl and that's my workflow. I bought it to use for my professional work.
@Lydie It really is cute.
@Lydie And loaded with spyware.
@ShredderFeeder Nope. Came with Win 11, didn't even let that boot one time. Tiny10 LTSC is onboard with zero telemetry and enshittification.

@Lydie The problem is they embed the malware int he BIOS, so it installs to the OS even clean.

China can't be trusted..ever.

@ShredderFeeder The device you're typing on right now was made in China.

@Lydie I don't trust it either.

But I also don't allow Windows in my house.

@ShredderFeeder I trust China more than the US regime. In fact, I'd rather Xi spy on me than that orange nazi.

@Lydie On that, we agree. But the US Regime is temporary (I hope)

China is always going to be china. The biggest mistake we ever made is offloading our manufacturing to them.

@ShredderFeeder We agree there as well. Electronics production should've been kept internal, at least for certain chips.

@ShredderFeeder @Lydie You can't actually embed malware of the sort of nature you're thinking in a standard PC UEFI firmware.

You can embed a lot. It can enable a lot. But not THAT much. Not actual phone home and track entirely through just the firmware type stuff.

You're also applying a much much heavier "solution" than necessary. A reverse Occam's Razor if you will. Why build some sort of custom UEFI firmware that somehow fits all the necessary stuff to do both standard UEFI stuff and yet also slip and do this stuff undetected when the stock Windows 11 already has everything they need and they can just toss in one very simple little thing that has it do all those functions and more? 99.9999% of their customers will not change the stock OS...

@Lydie You know, I've heard some of these can explode. Yeah, it's really bad. Very dangerous. You should send it to me for a while. I'll do a thorough evaluation for you to make sure it won't do that. Very thorough.
@nazokiyoubinbou Usually I'm the first to offer "independent UL testing" services 😆