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Comment Re: USB requirement, not USB-C (Score 1) 33

How do you know they didn't offer Lightning as a standard?

We would know, because there would be documentation, and they would have told us to show how great they are.

I suspect they did but were rejected, and the other members of USB-IF copied a lot of Apple's homework for USB-C.

The two interfaces are different in every way, so no, and also no, as usual for your bullshit "suspicions" which are really just bullshit you want people to believe to make your other bullshit sound less stupid.

Comment Re:What are we? (Score 0) 171

in the wild west (US)? I just don't understand why they would storm schools/offices on a weekly basis but they never aim higher. A part of course of one being an easy target.

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.

Comment Re: USB requirement, not USB-C (Score 1) 33

Lock-in (and thus profit$$$) was a big issue, yes, but to be fair, a lot of initial USB-c cables (and some chargers) were very sketchy.

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...

Comment Re:Step too far (Score 2) 40

If they want to force Apple to open up AirPlay & AirDrop, then Microsoft should be forced to open up NTFS, SMB, DirectoryAuth and all the various tech they use to keep people locked into their ecosystem.

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.

Comment Re: USB requirement, not USB-C (Score 1) 33

I kind of understand why Apple made that decision, though I think it was a bad decision.

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...

Comment Re:great (Score 1) 80

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.

Comment Re: Premium? (Score 1) 77

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.

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