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- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 6 days ago:
Less than 50% of the cells in “your body” contain your own DNA.
There are many more bacteria, since they are much much smaller than “your own” eukaryotic cells.
Where you end and your “gut flora” begin and end is not as clear as you might first believe.
- Comment on New album just dropped 3 weeks ago:
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is the sound my new kitten makes in most circumstances.
- Comment on House Centipedes 4 weeks ago:
They are cool friendly predators, but my cat is a bigger one.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 1 month ago:
Also, push notifications. Most things could be done from a browser, but corpos have to have their push notifications.
- Comment on Why isn't apple a popular ice cream flavor? 1 month ago:
Apples turn brown when you freeze them.
- Comment on Cereal 1 month ago:
Steelcut oats are just a vehicle for fruit and berries
- Comment on How did people poop before smartphones were invented? 1 month ago:
I still have my OG gameboy w/ Tetris near the toilet
- Comment on Hammerheads sharkz 1 month ago:
- Comment on Hammerheads sharkz 1 month ago:
What about the hammerhead shark guys who looked like bebop and rocksteady?
Am I imagining them?
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
Nobody uses that…Everybody literally on the planet agrees the system is moronic
Then just be as mad as you want–that the whole point of the news cycle anyways! Congrats, chaos wins!
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
the history of renaming everything so many times.
Every time a new USB spec comes out the version number goes up. A new spec comes out because they add more features. The spec is a whitepaper that explains all the features.
If you just never used the version numbers to mean something that they never meant (transfer speeds) then literally none of this is confusing.
They’ve officially renamed the transfer speeds one time after people made a big huff. here’s how they changed:
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USB SuperSpeed -> USB 5Gbps
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USB SuperSpeed 10Gbps -> USB 10Gbps
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USB SuperSpeed 20Gpbs -> USB 20Gbps
And If you can’t follow along with that, I’m really, really sorry. There’s not much I can do from a internet discussion board. XD
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- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
the whole USB 3.2 Gen 2 2x2 (hands of blue) bullshit
If you’re not trying to wire your own USB port you can just use the recommended name “USB SuperSpeed 20 Gbps”. You don’t have to be confused by technical names if you don’t want to be.
The real bullshit is between your ears–you and only you can fix it.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
480mbps
A device or port that does 480mbps transfer speeds is a “Hi-Speed” device/port. That’s the real name and always has been.
It doesn’t matter what version of the USB spec it was certified under. If it was designed between 2000 and 2008 it was certified under USB 2.0
If it was certified between 2008 and 2013 it was certified under USB 3.0. That absolutely doesn’t make it a SuperSpeed device/port, but that’s more then clear when we use the real names.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
They come to me for advice when those other workgroups changed some names retroactively again
Can you give a specific example of this?
I’d love to believe all your ethos arguments if you could give me some logos.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
They’re bad because manufacturers want to pass their usb 2.0 gear as “usb 3.0 compliant”, which it technically is, and their usb 3.0 gear as “usb 3.2” because 3.2 Gen 1x1 is also 5gbps.
The USB X.X is just the version of the standard and doesn’t mean anything for the capabilities of a physical device.
When a new standard comes out it superceeds the old one. Devices are always designed and certified according to the current standard.
Soooo…What are you talking about?
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
The don’t.
But give me an example of what you’re talking about.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
There’s even some devices charged with USB C that can’t be charged with a PD charger and need an A to C cable
Phones with qualcomm chips briefly had their own proprietary fast charging standards that were not a USB standard. You are unlikely to be using those devices in 2024. But is it USB-IF’s fault manufacturers tried to create proprietary standards to collect loyalties?
Additionally they renamed the USB 3.0 standard which has been established for over a decade to USB 3.1 Gen 1 which is completely unnecessary and just serves to confuse
No they didn’t?
The 5Gbps transfer rate introduced in 2008 is called “Superspeed” and it always has been.
USB X.X is not a port or a transfer speed. It’s the standard (ie a technical whitepaper). The standard is updated as time marches on and new features are added.
The standard was largely understandable with USB 3.0 generally being blue or at least a color other than black and on decently modern devices USB 2.0 would be black.
This was never a requirement, but it was nice to know which Type-A ports had 8 pins vs 4-pins.
With USB-C indication has just about gone out the window and what used to be a very simple to understand standard has now become nearly impossible to understand without having researched every device and cable you interact with.
For the most part you just plug it in and it works. If you need something specific like an external GPU connection, you can’t use your phone charging cable, sure. Is that really that big of a deal?
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
There are at least 4 different incompatible 1/8" TRRS standards.
You couldn’t have picked a worse example.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
Sometimes people want to charge their phone in an outlet 10 feet from their airport seat.
Sometimes people want to transmit 8k video.
It’s not physically possible to do both tasks with the same cable.
But because USB is a flexible standard, we don’t have two incompatible specs to do the same thing. So when you get out of the airport and to your meeting, you can actually plug your phone into the meeting room projector for your business presentation.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
It has to be optional to remain a “Universal” spec.
If it had more requirements, it would be more cumbersome to implement and device manufacturers would come up with completely different, completely incompatible cables and ports that would cause you even more headaches.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
People do not want to be limited to 1m long cords or only have thick and stiff Thunderbolt3 cords with 20 different conductors for a wired mouse.
Minimum specs like you are proposing just make the standard less useful and would lead to more competing specs that aren’t compatible at all (a la lightning cables).
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
Do you regularly read highly technical whitepapers? I don’t see how an 800 page document is comical for something that works so well.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
Additionally, USB 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2 labels provide no information on the speed
Correct.
USB X.X is the name of the technical whitepaper that describes the standard.
For a long time, USB had three transfer rates. The first legacy speed (slowest) was hardly ever used. The Second was called “Full Speed” and the fastest was called “Hi-speed”. Because people could not remember which if these two were faster, they referred to the whitepapers in which they were introduced.
When later versions of USB were introduced people have tried to continue this mental “shortcut” and have caused themselves nothing but confusion.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
Hi-speed transfer rates are just fine for devices that need to charge regularly but frequently transfer data wirelessly.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
USB prts are not labeled with numbers. You just made up number names for different things.
This is why you think things are “poorly labled”.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
USB in 1996: lets let you plug any device into the back of your computer.
USB in 2024: phones, tablets laptops are going to charge at crazy voltages and we’re going to show you 8k video all over the same port and you can insert it in both directions and we’re still going to connect any device to any device.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
I mean, they update the standard to add new things. Is that bad?
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
They are not bad at this. You are bad at understanding it.
Don’t get mad when you could instead learn something.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
SuperSpeed is not a “legacy” name.
It’s the name of a transfer rate.
I do not trust the maker of this infographic if they cannot understand some basic facts.
- Comment on "REM sleep is the next AI" 2 months ago:
Better sleep would actually improve people’s lives rather than just making it worse.