Because people were buying the formulations intended for horses, and then in some cases also taking horse doses.

A combination of stupidity and laziness, I'm afraid. Stupidity because they think the low-level drone that they interfaced with is the problem. Laziness because they won't even look into the problem enough to find out what it really is, and/or because going after the real problem is hard.

How is stalking not instigation or a threat?

You can still buy bad cables and chargers, but IME even a very cheap and long cable will do the job pretty well for lower wattage specs. At 120W or 240W I start to care about cable quality.

I too bought a decent (Anker) USB-C charger and haven't had a problem with it. I plug into my PC to charge almost exclusively though, both my prior PC and this one would/will do USB-PD even with the machine off. On the new one it's a BIOS option, on the last one it could not be disabled. The new machine has one rear panel USB-C and a motherboard connection to add another, I just recently got a $2 cable from aliexpress so I can add the second port...

You can also thank Beer(tm) for that one. I had just polished off a Sierra Juicy IPA.

non-paywall link

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

On the other hand, if they did build an army of AI-powered sea drones, at least they would have something to show for their money when they don't find MH370

That spec is a joke. Microsoft doesn't know how Word works. That's why it keeps getting worse.

Microsoft does nothing whatsoever to prevent anyone from interoperating with them. I am using samba as a DC for Windows VM guests right now. There are lots of things wrong with Microsoft but that isn't one of them.

So long as you understand that they did it to get lockin and sell peripherals, OK. Their stupid chip (DRM in a cable? booooo) limited their maximum charging current and they had to go to Type C if they wanted to have a plug and a decent charge rate at the same time.

Anyhoo Type C is here now and it's awesome and it's cheap as hell. I just got an inline current meter and an OTG Y cable that fast charging actually works through for like five bucks. Soon I expect it will cost ten, so I've been buying a bunch of little Chinese bullshit lately and I note that the quality of some of the cheaper crap has really jumped up...

Clothing gets resold by the pound on the international market. About a bowshot (being an American, I will do anything to avoid use of the metric system) from one of the border crossings (a bridge across a gorge) between Panama and Costa Rica, on the Panamanian side, there is a warehouse where those bundles get picked apart and then distributed to a variety of outlets of literally every description in every part of the country and then sold at a tiny fraction of their original retail price, and you can buy them with US dollars. Between tourists and the US military base there is even demand for large sizes (Panamanians are generally not tall folk otherwise) and I just for funsies I bought a $300 hip-hop shirt that makes me look like a drunken generalissimo's white cousin for about $20 in the basement of a department store in Panama City.

Yes, I resisted buying a LG TV because it's, you know, LG. Everything I have had previously from LG has disappointed me.

However, the reviews on this set (43UT80) gave it high marks for quality but complained that it had laggy and generally useless STB functionality and interface in general. I have found this to be true. I hear that it now also absolutely rapes your eyeballs with advertisements, but I have never connected it to a network and plan to never use those features where you would see adverts (including the tuner, a ha ha) so this does not impact me.

"How many days did you waste ordering online compared to an hour or so at a store?"

The store might not have those items, or might not have them on display, and might not unbox them for you so you can check them.

The main reason I buy online is that local retail outlets have crap stock. They carry multiple basically identical items, or they have only one or two choices, or they just have nothing in the category at all.

It's not poor shopping processes if they are following the vendor's policy. If the vendor creates a policy they don't want to honor, that's on them.

"Lightning predates USB-C"

The release of lightning-equipped products predates the release of USB-C-equipped products, but the USB-C spec was brought to the USB-IF before the release of any such products.

Apple is a member of the USB-IF, so they knew it was coming before they ever released any products with lightning.

Apple had the option to bring lightning to the USB-IF as a proposed standard, but instead they chose to make it proprietary in a deliberately anticompetitive action which shows they are not good faith members of the USB-IF.

Now iFanboys cry about it. Cry harder.

I have a work iPhone. It connects to the charger via a USB-C to lightning cable supplied by Apple. The lightning end is flaky and the connection interrupts when wiggled. The type C end does not. Even apple can't make a lightning connector worth a fuck but that doesn't stop you cucks from worshipping their trash.