My Labrador has excellent teeth.

Man’s best friend becomes man’s best mouth.

Well, you expect your hate to create for you a few comrades, but it’ll only make for more hillbillies named Conrad.

Yes, but Americans hating their government is exactly what got us here.

Doubling down on that sentiment is only going to make things worse.

You understand that, right?

yes but they all go bbbbuuuuuurrrrrtttt

Back in the day, Walmart and Apple fought over contactless pay standards for the US.

Apple’s standard was eventually mass adopted, and since then Walmart has refused to license the tech. So you have to use their app, which uses their own tech stack.

That’s fine. 1% per uberweird news cycle is the death of facebook.

Zuck invented the feed.

End-to-end encryption matters if your device isn’t actively trying to sabotage your privacy.

If you run Android, Google is guilty of that.

If you run Windows in a non-enterprise environment Microsoft is guilty of that.

If you run iOS or MacOS, Apple is (very likely) guilty of that.

These things don’t cost effort, they just buy a library and pump up the cost of the game and make the fucking publishers feel better about themselves.

FAT chain traversal sounds like a diet plan. 😅

The feetdraggers will slowly, begrudgingly follow–as always.

“Conspiracy” assumes the government is functioning in a fundamentally honest manner.

In the 70s, the public was frankly shocked to learn about the Watergate Scandal, because they assumed America operated in a fundamentally honest manner.

After Watergate, the “conspiracy theorist” developed. Because if Watergate is true, what else is going on?

Around that time, AM radio was looking for new programming after the public’s music listening transitioned to FM and we got a steady diet of extremist religious programming and Conspiracy-laden talk radio. Shortly after the Fairness Doctrine ended and things really took.off. One of the biggest TV series of the 90s was the X-files.

Anyways, if you have a conspiratorial government (e.g.China), you’re not a “conspiracy theorist” to believe in conspiracy. There are very obvious conspiracies at work.

The corruption epidemic the US is now facing (post Citizens United) means we no longer assume we have a fundamentally honest government.

“Conspiracy theorist” is dead. Our government is fundamentally conspiring.

I don’t understand why everyone assumes using a VPN means paying for a third party.

It’s because that is what is advertised to them.

The switch from PC usage to locked down devices has made things worse and more expensive and less creative.

Remember, Apple invented the PC but IBM democratized it.

We didn’t get the same thing again.

Apple invented the Smartphone and Google also contributed locked down devices.

Also, push notifications. Most things could be done from a browser, but corpos have to have their push notifications.

It doesn’t matter if you’re the guy who turns every notification off and manages all those… 9/10 people won’t.

We still have monuments donated by Fascist Italy standing in Chicago.

The consumer facing names for those transmission specs are and have always been:

• SuperSpeed 10 Gbps

• SuperSpeed 20 Gbps

Unless you’re designing your own circuits you don’t need to worry about signaling rates (ie “Gen”) or lane configuration (Z×Y).

Well if there’s anything I expect from the new-cycle masses, it’s rationality.

Heaven forbid, we try and do better!

I guess I should just read the whitepapers of every standard going forward, silly me.

You don’t have to read whitepapers to know the difference between Ethernet, CAT6 and RJ45 even if your grandpa doesn’t know the difference.

It’s not too much to expct the “nerds” to know the real names of PAN connections, too.

Nobody uses that…Everybody literally on the planet agrees the system is moronic

Then just be as mad as you want–that’s the whole point of the news cycle anyways! Why bother learning? Congrats, chaos wins!

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. It’s a “The King is dead, long live the king!” situation.

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:

• USB SuperSpeed -> USB 5Gbps

• USB SuperSpeed 10Gbps -> USB 10Gbps

• 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