void main() { //code }Is better than
void main() { //code }Why would you want to put it on a separate line? Are you paid by the height of the source file or something?
Having devices require a USB-C charger might be great for small devices, but it’s awful for laptops. That thing is so flimsy it’s only a matter of time until it starts having faulty contacts. I’ve had one for a year and now it connects/disconnects everytime I touch the cable. Gimme back my huge Dell barrel jacks 😭 😭 😭
Grab a thin needle or piece of wire, thin enough to easily insert into the USB-C port, and scratch all of the dirt and lint out of it. Always point the needle towards the outer surface so you don’t scratch the electrical contacts in the middle.
There is often a surprising amount of junk inside even if you can’t see it from the outside, and that can greatly affect the connection quality.
My phone recently had a similar issue where it would only charge if the cable was inserted in a specific way, and any movement would cause it to stop charging. The cable also wasn’t really held well even though it looked like it was fully inserted. I cleaned out the port even though I couldn’t see anything inside, and managed to pull out a bit of dust anyway. And now my phone no longer has charging issues and holds on to the cable much better.
USB-C unfortunately just seems to have a design that makes it very easy for dust to get stuck in it, while also having a relatively low tolerance for foreign material buildup before the connection quality gets affected, making this a quite common issue.
Thanks for the tip I’ll try that ! I’ve had the same problem on a tablet, but there it was definitely caused by the port being bend out of shape (it won’t be horizontal) so I had assumed it was the same problem on the laptop. But I’ll try cleaning it to see if it fixes it ! I assume a toothpick or something else or wood or plastic would be better than metal ?
A wooden toothpick is probably a bit too thick. You’d want something thin enough that it can be inserted without touching the electrical contacts. If you do have something plastic then that’s probably better, but if you do the cleaning when the device is off the USB port should be unpowered and there shouldn’t be a risk of causing a short, and modern USB ports are quite well protected again shorts anyway so it’s very unlikely to cause damage just by being conductive. You mainly want something that is long and thin enough to get all the way to the bottom of the port without having to apply any force. If the only things you have that are long and thin enough to reach the bottom of the port without having to be forced in are made of metal, then that’s still a safer option than jamming something too thick into the port that can deform the center contacts.
Thanks for the tip ! ❤️
The main problem I have with USB-C is that the “U” is a lie. Always has been to some extent, but seems like it’s particularly true with USB-C. This is closer to that meme that’s like “There are 12 competing standards. We created a new universal standard to replace them all.” Except instead of there now being 13 competing standards, USB-C is a fractured mess so instead it’s like there’s now 20 competing standards. This cord supports passthrough power, this one doesn’t, but even the one that does only supports 20W so you have to have a special one to deliver 65, and that USB-C power brick only gives 15W, so you have to buy a special one that does 80W, and this USB-C port on my phone doesn’t support the USB-C to Aux jack adapter I bought, so now I have to buy a different adapter. It goes on and on and on and frankly I’m old and tired.
True but at least you can buy replacement cables if they break and you know the spec.
The issue with that is the old cables had the same problem, they just were less noticeable because you didn’t expect them to do what the USB-C is capable of. I had some USB micro cables that would pass power only, and it drove me nuts if they ended up near my computer.
Every barrel jack a different size and voltage.
After further reflection, the hill I’ll die on is that we should replace ALL types of USB by barrel jacks, not only USB-C. Cause circular connectors rule! Make a standard one, I don’t care, as long as I never have to plug a USB-A three times to find the right way.
barrel jacks were great until you lost them and had to buy a new one for way too much money. but, I’d rather have a standardized barrel jack than usb c
yeah my problem is not with having a standard, but with choosing USB-C for it instead of something better.
I get that USB-C was probably the more pragmatic choice since it already existed and a lot of devices were already using it. But I’m still team “Let’s make a new good standard rather than use one that’s just okayish”
I have also had issues with type C connection reliability, but every single time so far it has been an issue with the cable. I thought that the port on my phone of 4+ years was dying, the connection felt loose and it would charge unreliably, but changing out the cable has completely removed all issues.
the connection felt loose and it would charge unreliably, but changing out the cable has completely removed all issues.
Isn’t that because the attachments are placed on the cable side, purposefully, because changing cables is easier than replacing parts of the phone/device? I think that’s one of the more noticeable issues with the iIdiot lightning chargers: Once the grabbing parts of the port are borked in the device, no cable ever stays in.
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In the battle for Make vs CMake, I would die for Make probably.
The Office means the British version. The American office refers to the American version.
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As an American, this disagrees with my worldview. But I also don’t know enough about the British version to say your wrong 🤷♂️
I never watched the British one, and I don’t care for the American one, too cringey. Makes me sympathetic cringe.
lol. I get that. I say what I say cause the British one came first.
Also, if you feel like that about The American Office, you will not like the British one.
Water is wet
“an historic” is wrong and terrible if you pronounce the “h”
Search engines should not use locational data including IP address to provide “more relevant” results. Checking for restaurants or weather forecast? You should have to manually add the relevant search terms. Want results in a specific language? You should have to manually apply this filter.
Convenience is not worth the potential harm of locationally biased search results.
For example, where I live is like White Nationalist Central Station. My search results are thus far more likely to net me results with a pro-US/nationalist skew, thus potentially entrenching or normalizing harmful beliefs.
Whenever I’ve tried bringing this up with Techlords, I get a feeble, “B-but then you couldn’t say ‘restaurants near me’ UnU” and like … good? It’s not like it’s hard to type city and state in the search field.
I’ve never found a search engine that even has this as an option. Even Sear XNG instances net results that are clearly aligned with the location of the instances server.
A Kagi dev even lied to me when I was looking into that as an alternative, saying they don’t use location, when it’s pretty easy to determine that they do.
I also don’t want a “good” algorithm. I also don’t want to see big corporate sites prioritized either. If some backwoods nobody has a site that’s more relevant, show it to me. I feel like pre-Google search engines were better, but that’s another vent for another day.
Now where did I put my false teeth and walker???
The first time i searched for a business online the results came from a city on the other side of the planet. I’m ok with getting search results in my area.
That’s on you for not entering the proper search terms. User error.
Edit: Also, good. That’s the way it should be! Which search engine did you use to get that result? I’ve been looking for something like that.
ip adress only gives the nearest big city. information like this is pretty useful to show you info based on your state/province.
yes I don’t think a search engine should promote more extremist views but it’s pretty nice if when I search ‘left party’ I get a left party from my country, and not the American democratic party.
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With duckduckgo you can disable the country filter thingo to get international results, and you can also change it to another country
Oh believe me, I know. DDG was the first one I tried, and I tested it with every configuration possible. Like many other search engines such as startpage and kagi, you sure can do this in the settings, but it will do absolutely nothing to stop it from using your IP address to net locationally biased results specific to your current location. You may assume it would function like this, but it doesn’t.
I even tried their html and lite versions, but although it was less cluttered and much more pleasant to use, it still provided results that were very clearly based on my IP address.
I’m not even sure what those settings do because they appear to have no function. Maybe they change language and currency on some sites for convenience, but again, that’s not what I’m talking about in my comment! I’m saying a search engine should not use any locational data whatsoever to adjust results. And if you reply “well, good luck finding one because it doesn’t exist,” then congratulations, you understand my comment! They don’t exist because we’ve all sacrificed our societal wellbeing for the sake of the smallest convenience.
Even if changing it to another country/region worked (it doesn’t), we’d still have the problem of netting biased results based on what country I switch it to. That would be akin to searching while using my VPN, which once again, does not solve the problem of search engines using IP address to provide locationally biased results.
have you actually properly tested that the results in your location are more extremist? like compared with using a vpn on ddg?
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You know what’s hilarious about this basically non-functional setting? If I toggle the switch off, it provides results based on my IP address’s location, but if I toggle it to “UK” it will also provide some results for the UK city that my town is named after, without me ever providing the name of my town lol
DDG is a for-profit brand that’s a lot more nefarious than people think. They’ve even succumbed to AI.
Just tried setting no country, then ducked “wine”.
Results were definitely still from my country first.
When I set display language to US English, results came up from the US, instead.
When I set it to French, it shows French websites at the top.
So the language you set affects what websites you are shown in the results. That sucks.But you can actually just turn off ads in the settings. That’s pretty fucking neat!
Even the lite and html versions of DDG will provide locationally biased search results. There’s no way around this. Best you can do is use a VPN, but then you’ve still got the problem of reading locationally biased results, just for a different location. It sucks.
Not a small hill and I could not agree more. This is relevant to Noam Chomsky “manufacturing consent”.
100% agree.
To add to this, when I’m looking up something online I want info provided by the internet in general, not just by my next door hillbilly.
EDIT: Downvoted by my next door hillbilly and his siblings
If a motorcycle has to be ear-splittingly loud for “safety”, then it’s too dangerous to be road legal.
It’s explicitly the opposite, scientifically, according to my safety class
The deep rumble being loud overwhelms anyone’s ability to properly locate the bike quickly, and they demonstrated this live. It’s definitely harder to locate a LOUDER bike
I used to ride. People who say that know it’s just a bullshit excuse to be a dick. Just roll your eyes and/or flip them the bird. Actually, most of them get off on you flipping them the bird, because they’re dicks 🤷
No, it’s morphed into one of those pearls of wisdom that people pass down and truly believe. They all have their ‘true story’ of blipping the throttle and “suddenly the car that was moving over to smush me stopped!!!” The assholes who know it isn’t true can be discerned from the true believers by the humor they find in their tales of blasting people with sounds.
If a company has a bad interface on their electronic item I’ll not buy it. To me it’s a big hill but I guess it’s how you want to look at it. I’ll stop buying anything from that company if they keep doing it
My new corollary: If your online e-commerce site asks customers to add a tip, even if $0 / no tip is an option, I’m not buying shit from you.
If i need wifi, bluetooth, or an app to use a product that shouldn’t need it (eg a toaster, toothbrush) i will not buy it. i also won’t buy a wireless device (say a bluetooth speaker) if it requires an app. I would be willing to pay $500 more to have a tv with no smart features than a ‘smart’ tv. corporations: keep your shitty malware. my phone is a temple.
I would agree with you, but I still want to own a microwave. There are none with reasonable UI behavior as far as I can tell.
(Edit) For example: Opening the door a few seconds early always leaves time on the display which should just automatically clear after a minute or two. Obviously if the user doesn’t use that leftover time immediately then they aren’t going to.
One dial is power level, the other is time.
Neat! I’ve only ever seen commercial-grade ones like that.
Looks good actually.
But how does it handle the door opening early? Does it still leave unused time sitting on the time dial?
Yeah, it doesn’t clear the dials, and if you want to manually reduce the time you do need to adjust the time dial, but you get a delightful bell sound when you do so. The door does stop the magnetron when open though.
No, this is the peak microwave, from 1997
I just ordered this, I love it, thank you
Appliances and cars should never have an internet connection for any reason.
Also fuck touch screens give me buttons.
Agree with this. With cars it makes them vulnerable to hacking unless safety critical systems are isolated. Fly-by-wire airplanes specifically isolate the flight control computers from anything that could connect to the internet for this reason
Pretty big hill if you ask me
Im dying on it either way.
Im dying on it either way.
To a self-driving car, no less!
Though as a kind of “exception”, I think that charging poles for electric cars should have modbus or Ethernet and a local protocol (matter maybe?) to use with smart home systems for automation and cars should have a standard affordable way to check errors and status of sensors.
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touch screens can be justified IMO, IF the company let it function as a diagnostic computer but the auto industry seem terrified of actually making something resembling a competent configurable UI. Internet could be nice if the appliance just used SNMP or similar protocols that have been around for decades, but the companies seem to love that shitty malware they call an App.
I fucking love my wifi enabled heat pump. Turn that shit on half an hour before I get home. Comfy shit.
That does sound nice. Is it a proprietary system?
It does not connect to any of the smart home systems, it’s a system by the manufacturer of the unit (Mitsubishi)
“catsup” is the better spelling; “ketchup” looks about as proper as “nite lite”
Anything with cats is inherently superior
The Shambler from Quake is covered in fur
Feathers*, just like modern dinosaurs
What’s heavier: A kilogramme of steel, or a kilogramme of shambler feathers?
While they may weigh the same, the steel will do more damage when dropped.
A steel ball is not a ball bearing. A bearing is something that bears load and allows for motion, usually rotation. There are sleeve bearings which are just one material or journal bearings which have pressurized oil to separate the spinning shaft. A ball bearing is an assembly with rolling elements (balls, rather than rollers). Those steel balls are just called balls. The whole assembly is called a ball bearing. I used to work in bearing manufacturing and they were just called balls.
Would it be better if I clarified by calling them “ball bearing balls”? Or would that lead to my unpleasant pummeling by steel balls?
Yeah that’s accurate. Or just “bearing balls”.
Yeah, I think this is the best option. It sounds a little weird at first, because we’re so used to hearing it the other way around, but it makes more sense if you think about it.
It does sound a little weird. I usually just say balls
There absolutely was a cornucopia in the fruit of the loom logo. That is the sole reason I know what a cornucopia is. It wasn’t on any table or in any thanksgiving decoration in my childhood, it isn’t a popular thing to exist in media, it was an obscure item that was a main part of an underwear logo.
Anyone that says differently is objectively wrong. I don’t know why the logo changed and why besides a patent entry even the company itself denies it. I don’t really care if this is an alternate earth or aliens or time travellers or an entirely natural quirk of existing in a quantum universe, but I know for an absolute fact the sole reason I know what a cornucopia is is because of my underwear, and not because my dick is coincidentally called the horn of plenty.
I honestly believe this one is a gorilla marketing gimmick. Like they purposely went back and removed references to it so any time someone brings up the Mandela Effect their name gets mentioned.
Denying that the logo used to have a cornucopia is a thing? Sheesh, TIL.
Unfortunately it is the truth, weird as it feels
There absolutely wasn’t. Snopes did a good piece on this in 2024.
Yeah, snopes isn’t a trustworthy source, and more importantly, there absolutely was. I know that for an absolute certainty, and gaslighting isnt going to work.
Your passionate certainty and value of your own judgment/recollection have convinced me! 😅
100%
I remember this as well, just like I remember Mandela dying in prison. Felt like I was Looney Tunes when I found out as an adult he was still alive.
Nobody thought Mandela died in prison. He was one of the most high-profile people in the world in the 1990s, constantly in the papers after his release from prison. How could you believe he died in prison?
I didn’t forget that he was released, but enough people thought he died in prison, that we named the term after him.
But then how could he have been released to huge fanfare and shaken up politics?
Do these people believe Narendra Modi died in 2009? It just doesn’t fit major world events.
Most people aren’t really familiar with the history of the world, especially the period of time that would correspond to ≈ 30-50 years before they graduated secondary school. I assume this is because there seems to be a pattern where you just don’t actually catch up to current events in many history classes.
Also expecting the average person in the US to be familiar enough with world events to even know who Nelson Mandala or Narendra Modi are, is a good way to have a bad time. I don’t like it either, but as Carlin said, “think of the average person, now remember that 50% of people are stupider than that.”
Maybe the real Mandela effect is we were all tricked into thinking there are people out there believing Nelson Mandela died before leading the ANC, being president, winning the Nobel, and ending apartheid.
Steve Biko died in prison in 1977. There were a bunch of movies about Biko that came out in the late '80s to early '90s, the most famous was Cry Freedom starring Denzel Washington. Nelson Mandela was famously imprisoned, and released around that same time. My guess is that since most Americans don’t really pay deep attention to the news, especially world news, it just got all blended into a miasma of vague memories about some South African anti-apartheid activist.
I definitely got the cornucopia from the saccharine depictions of ‘the origin’ of thanksgivings. I always thought the logo came from those.
