chinkware meaning (derogatory): definition

chinkware

noun

Etymology From Chink (“a contemptuous term for a Chinese person”) + -ware.

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Internet, Derogatory, Ethnic, Slur Software created in China, regarded as being likely to maliciously surveil the user; Chinese spyware.

That will mean lots more chinkware for you to hype.2011 April 17, Gordon Darling, “PC's have peaked”, in alt.comp.freeware (Usenet):
The Windows firewall built into Vista, and Windows 7 is class. Why would I want to use Chinkware with Geekbuddy support , or indeed insert any third party code into the very fine network stack developed by Microsoft, with a little help from BSD.2011 May 30, Pooh the Cat, “Privatefirewall Questions”, in alt.comp.freeware (Usenet):

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You always defend chinkware, which Bear Bottoms did at the behest of the PLA. Chinkware, when made in the PRC, not Taiwan, is always spyware, unconditionally, no variations on that. The PRC is the major industrial spy in the world. […]2015 March 15, The Haberdasher Genl., “Pooh: Caver is Bear, you already know that.”, in alt.comp.freeware (Usenet):
The xposed module itself is closed source and the link on the github page is very suspicious. I'm not running any unknown chinkware on something higher than user level.2022 September 15, u/Mitko0111, “Archived copy”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 16 Sep 2022:
[…] if you're a company that could in any case ever compete with a chinese company, or a government infrastructure builder, stay away […] chinkware will be weaponized in the upcoming war2023 November 30, anonymous author, 4chan:

Internet, Derogatory, Ethnic, Slur Products, especially electronics, manufactured or designed in China, regarded as being of poor-quality and prone to failure.

Because you are a moron who shops Chinkware at Walmart, happily.2009 December 12, Epsilon Eridani, “Newsgroup math”, in sci.astro.amateur (Usenet):
[…] In the old days you could still get a Mexican made Zenith but now it's all from Asia and Japanese and Taiwanese products are a dozen times better then^([sic]) chinkware garbage.2015 February 1, toriless, “Archived copy”, in Fixya, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2024:

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Their business model consists of buying cheap chinkware, installing Ubuntu (but lets install a different GTK theme so we can call it our own distro), and reselling them to clueless mutts at 250% the origina^([sic]) price. They are pretty based if you ask me.2020 November 26, anonymous author, 4chan:
>mfw my chinkware phablet starts overheating2021 April 26, anonymous author, 4chan:
this is peak chinkware that will break/start malfunctioning in less than a week […]2023 November 15, anonymous author, 4chan:

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