anomnom

@anomnom@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USB-C gets a bit more universal as the EU’s mandate goes into effect⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  My 2017 laptop has one less than reliable port out of 4 (the rest are fine). They are the only charging ports and since the rest work I should be fine as the hardware otherwise is still working well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rainbolt never misses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, some of those must be around county sized for the US.

  Many of states of the United States (especially outside the 13 colonies) are bigger than most of Europe’s countries. Which is really a better comparison to memorizing the states.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rainbolt never misses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, but I think there may be Bavaria, Westfalia, Saxony? Can’t think of any others at the moment but I assume there are a couple more.

  It’s a bit trickier, since Germany was still divided when I was in grade school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USB-C gets a bit more universal as the EU’s mandate goes into effect⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got a an iPhone 5c that still charges and works well (for playing some old seasonal games my wife loves) and its lighting port is still fine. As are all the other lighting ports I’ve got (7-8 devices over the years). I tend to use my devices for as long as they get OS support (and way longer on the laptops). The cables are the first to fail when bent or mishandled while charging.

  I’ve now heard a few stories about melting connectors when they’re being held (a bad habit my wife has while laying in bed, but it only hurts the cable, so it’s not the end of her phone if it happens…yet). The USB-C charging on my MacBook is finicky as fuck, but it at least has 4 different ports if one fails.

  The MagSafe connectors on MacBooks are the best IMO, my older MacBooks always connect with a click and start charging with a led indicator to show status. They never should have changed it. Which is probably why they changed it back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USB-C gets a bit more universal as the EU’s mandate goes into effect⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still on the fence with respect the the usb-c device side durability. Time will tell, and I guess wireless charging can make it all moot if you’re patient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yay⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m gonna get shot for this, but Safari has tab groups and they’re fucking awesome especially if your have an iPhone, mac, and iPad or more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s go

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what was the last game you played in 2024?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone else feel like this is just a gateway drug to gambling addiction?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I saw Free Willy in theaters: AMA⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No anesthesia??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy New Year! Thought I'd share my new year's resolution to the people here⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Panavisionesque

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No it’s that wages climb too much when unemployment is too low. The Feds even fucking said it during the inflation. They wanted a higher unemployment rate. Super fucked unless there was ever a basic income.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Shoulda got a CVT.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah we need to be kept employed at around 94% while we starve to death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is testing a floating ‘Play something’ button⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They could be tracking how your mouse/input moves, but it’s probably time of day based too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekends were a mistake, says Infosys co-founder Narayama Murthy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Roll over, roll over🎶

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big, beige ’80s PC case started out as a joke, but it’s becoming real in Japan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah there was a lot of really nice design going on at the time. This looks like the discount cases from the early 90s clones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks to this thread TIL it was one of the few serious competitors to ATTs monopoly.

  Southern Pacific Communications and introduction of Sprint

  Sprint also traces its roots back to the Southern Pacific Railroad (SPR), which was founded in the 1860s as a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific Company (SPC). The company operated thousands of miles of track as well as telegraph wire that ran along those tracks. In the early 1970s, the company began looking for ways to use its existing communications lines for long-distance calling. This division of the business was named the Southern Pacific Communications Company. By the mid 1970s, SPC was beginning to take business away from AT&T, which held a monopoly at the time. A number of lawsuits between SPC and AT&T took place throughout the 1970s; the majority were decided in favor of increased competition.Prior attempts at offering long-distance voice services had not been approved by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), although a fax service (called SpeedFAX) was permitted..

  In the mid-1970s, SPC held a contest to select a new name for the company. The winning entry was “SPRINT”, an acronym for “Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Networking Telephony”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-powered vending machines that sell bullets could be hacked, says a cybersecurity expert⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey hey hey, half cowards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Force is the wrong word, I meant more difficult to ignore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux would need overwhelming market share in the consumer end to force chip makers to play, whether they like it or not.

  Windows might be finally doing a bad enough job again, to drive Linux adoption, but it’s hard to tell if that’s just Lemmy talking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But yes.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How many average coal plants per Chernobyl though. I suspect that number is surprising lower than the total number of coal plants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The “shitter’s full” third I hope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fuckery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And now a whole generation of 12 year old boys thinks that’s what normal sex is like.