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Cake day: July 27th, 2023

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  • For like 5 months leading up to the last American presidential election, UM was spreading anti-democrat and pro Jill Stein propaganda, while actually shilling for Trump pretty transparently. They were a troll who loved upsetting people but finally got banned for it right before the election. JordanLund, the .world mod, really seemed to be shielding the troll but it seemed like so many people wanted him banned that they finally caved and did it after he harassed users in DMs. That wasn’t their first time harassing in DMs. I’d let them know they’d done the same to me more than once before that and I was basically ignored



  • But it’s not really a failure of the cable (typically, I know there are edge cases but I don’t think I’ve run into them recently). In a perfect world, it possibly plugging in means it works as expected I guess, but I think it’s a better tradeoff to expect users to know that some devices require a bit more power, and have a plug that still works universally. “This charger doesn’t have enough power” is easy enough to be understood by a 90 yo I would think.

    Chargers should be labelled with the output they provide (mine are), but you are right, devices probably should be labelled better with what they require.



  • People can hate all they want on USB-C with all these details that may be technically true, but the only issue I’ve had in years is with chargers varying in power output and occasionally that means I try to charge something that either takes forever or never charges. It’s an edge case and I consider it a charger issue, not a cable one…

    Life is definitely simpler now with USB-C being pretty standard, and Lightning cables can burn in hell. Those anti-standard bullshits have caused me to buy a dozen of them for friends and test devices (I’m a web dev) and yet I’ve never owned a mobile Apple product and never would. Fuck Lightning – cannot possibly say it enough. I’m glad the EU agrees.







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    2 days ago

    Except the problem is not with it being digital. I think the only issue people have is being confused about where to tap, since that is different between machines and it’s not always clear. I guess I could memorize a few different common styles but again that’s not related to it being digital.