Not anymore; the website came to life again as you spoke.
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It’s Chinese New Year again 
I bought a Chinese server. 2 Cores 4 GB RAM, currently have no good ideas except building websites… Do you have something to suggest? Just curious 
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Run Chromium and interface with it via vnc? :v
Not gonna lie, 1 gig feels so fast for me ._.
As always thanks to @anon86539743 for helping me getting this domain
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Well, bandwidth is billed and I don’t think I’m gonna waste my precious bandwidth on speedtesting :v
I’m still fiddling with it and until now I’ve only setup an FTP server and a Minecraft server…
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How lucky you are! You should be happy for that internet speed. TBH, that’s 25x better than my internet speed which is around 40-50Mbps. Is that the average internet speed in your country? Do you use a high-tier internet subscription plan? I’m curious.
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How about hosting a license server for your projects? Or a proxy server?
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So quite a while ago possibly 2 years ago someone came into my shop with a bag of old chargers, mains cables and other bits and bobs
They didn’t want to throw them away and asked if they were any use to me, I took them and put them away and forgot about it
Today I needed a mains extension and remembered that there was a double mains adapter in the bag of junk so I fished it out
One of the sockets was very tight so I decided to open it to fix the contacts but was shocked to discover that it had a dual microphone spy device inside complete with sim card !
I’ll be more careful in future
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Oh, dear… I’m glad you discovered it eventually. I hope it didn’t pick up any sensitive information being in that bag.
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fingers crossed because it was in a bag not plugged in it wasn’t active. On the plus side, you’ve now got a device to see if you can hack and send the wouldbe spy annoying sounds instead
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There is no battery in the device, its directly powered from the mains so its been totally inactive while it was here but yeah kind of worrying
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I wonder if the person who gave it you was the one who built it, or if they were a one of its victims
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I would say they built it. Why would they pass off a bag of things like that? Commonly, they are disposed of.
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My cousin used to run an electronics repair and recycling shop in Scunthorpe (the town that always triggers profanity filters lol) and he always had people donating extention cables, broken printers ect for him to strip for parts. So to me it doesn’t seem anything unusual.
but i guess that was the late 90’s early 2000’s
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Old electronics don’t always get disposed of in the trash. My city has a privately run electronics recycling center you can take stuff you’re no longer using. Items that are broken they recycle properly, but anything that’s still functional is resold at the store in the second half of their building.
Some people also donate their old electronics to thrift stores, broken and otherwise. I’ve encountered and bought a lot of random old electronics that way over the years. I could fully believe that the person who gave away the bag of stuff might not have been knowingly passing off a spy bug. It’s possible that they might have been of course, but I doubt we’ll ever know for sure either way.
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That actually sounds interesting!
Oh yes account suspension time 
Doing that is illegal here
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