my Z Flip6 has started making some lovely nice popping noises when being folded

OOPS! I completely forgot to save the last bit of this post before posting it

TL;DR, this is invasive, proof of concept at https://github.com/JoshAtticus/ztewaste

New Blog Post — Your ZTE phone is likely spying on you, which ZTE says is "compliant"

https://blog.joshattic.us/posts/2026-05-31-your-zte-phone-is-spying-on-you

New Blog Post — Budget phones are so scarily good now I am writing a blog post about it

https://blog.joshattic.us/posts/2026-05-15-budget-phones-are-scary

Why is it always Oppo phones with the weirdest issues

Decided to take another look at 2 Oppo phones I got in a lot of 16 since neither worked, Oppo A72 4G and Oppo A5 2020, the A72 4G was salt water damaged on the inside which explained why it didn't work, and at first, I thought the A5 2020 just had a dead battery since it worked with the battery removed, but after putting a known good battery in, it still did not work.

Turns out, the FINGERPRINT SCANNER of all things had a short and was stopping the phone from booting. If you plugged it in while the phone was already on, it'd heat up to 82C (179F) in seconds and then the phone would shut off. Phone works perfectly fine without a fingerprint scanner, also weirdly the entire software is Telstra branded with not an Oppo logo in sight, but it's network unlocked!

If I were to sell it I'd probably get ~$70 AUD for it, so I might replace the fingerprint scanner if I see a new one for a reasonable price. Absolutely NO CLUE why the original fingerprint scanner broke like wtf???

Everyone. Today has been the day. monkey jump, run banana jungle..

monkey jump, run banana jungle's been deleted.

I am typing this my hands shaking and in the verge tears. I was in the middle of the game and the game suddenly got deleted on me.

who is still visiting this site that I took down ages ago and how

Damnit Claude

google maps on tomtom