These people’s minds will be blown when they hear about virtual machines.
This headline was incredibly confusing to me because, as an American, I’d never heard of “mobes” as slang for mobile phones. The article does open with “phone motherboards” so I thought it was either a typo’d “mobos” or someone had changed the slang for motherboard when I wasn’t looking.
How do you get one
For real, I’d love to have a barebones phone.
Crime is just a bonus, I just want a debloated phone.
👍👍
Also shown is a datacenter of sorts full of racks, each populated with several of the chassis and as many as 1,000 smartphones all hard at work.
I wonder what the nearest cell tower could handle…
Also… “China Central Television (CCTV)”, irony at its best.
It’s unlikely they are using cellular connections. It would be much cheaper to just use WiFi on a phone that doesn’t have cell network access. Or they may even hardwire Ethernet, depending on what the devices are capable of.
Nonetheless, Jiemian News reported that among the businesses engaged in mobile phone motherboard-related business, over 23 percent have run into legal trouble – but fewer than three percent have faced administrative penalties.
Sounds like the CCP, or high ranking members, are owners or customers for these “startups”.
This was always my idea, abuse “free money” apps where you watch ads for money en masse with automated swipes using apps like Smart Autoclicker and tadaaa! Free money.
Would be worse for the environment than mining Bitcoin though.
i wonder how the kits work
