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  • I assume you're joking, but if not: the 4MB of flash you see is not mapped 1:1 with 4MB of actual flash on the SD card. Instead there might be something like 5MB, but your OS only sees 4MB of that.

    The extra unallocated space is used as spare sectors (sectors degrade and must be swapped out) or even just randomly if it somehow increases IO performance (depending on the firmware).

    Erasing the 4MB visible to your OS will not erase everything, there still may be whole files or fragments of your files sitting in the extra space. Only drive-vendor specific commands can reliably access this space (if they exist and are available to you, which they mostly are not). Some secure erase commands may wipe the unallocated space but that's vendor specific, not documented and I don't think even supported over the SD interface (although I might be wrong on this last point).

  • I'm imagining some poor sod that's just flown in from a more conservative and traditional location. They've spotted a few things that seem a bit off (bare feet at the airport?) but things are mostly OK. Then they get to Parliament Station.

    Centre frame: petrified person wearing clothes for winter climate clutching baggage at top of slide. Camera zooms out suddenly. Normal trainstation noises continue in background.

  • I did this previously by using MultiMC (now PrismLauncher). Make a mix of mods, send them the zip of the whole game instance and ask them to drag and drop it onto MultiMC. The biggest issue I encountered was one family member having a black ingame world until they changed a setting in the graphics mod, otherwise it didn't seem to be too hard.

    By comparison Minetest is much easier for playing mods with family. Everyone downloads the server's mods when they join. But the interest is lower.

  • 10 sec

    Filthy casual.

    My family has a Chiq U58G7P. Warm boots take about 30 sec and cold boots a few minutes.

    Don't try and press any buttons on the remote during this time or for a minute or two afterwards. They might work, 15 seconds later, or they might get ignored. Sometimes your button press inputs get re-ordered too.

    Factory resets do work, but then all it can do is broadcast TV. If you let it update and install streaming apps then you will be back to the same problems.

    I suspect that it might be running out of RAM and thrashing some poor innocent MMC as swap, but I can't find a USB ADB port to properly find out (maybe it has one internally?).

  • 25/10 for 65AUD/m (43USD/m). Australia, NBN (monopoly across entire country, technically government owned but run like a private corp because of politics). It's the lowest speed now available, but it's already overpriced. $780/year is far more than all of my wifi capable equipment is worth together, including laptops.

  • Nice, ty. I've only revenged PC firmware, not embedded, so I wouldn't think of several of those tools.

    I know a model of HP inkjet from my childhood that had a service/factory mode where ink checks were disabled. After years of claiming that its carts were empty I was suddenly able to print perfect full-colour pages. RIP HP Photosmart 3110

  • I had to look this up, so I'll leave it here for others:

    youth group = religious organisation trying to sign people up

    (In my country if you look this term up on the web you get https://youth.gov.au . They probably wear thongs too)