Plopp @ Plopp @lemmy.world Posts 0Comments 1,445Joined 2 yr. ago
Google still allows sideloading, it's the app developers that can prevent you from installing their app from other sources than Google Play. Sideloading an app works fine on Android if the app's developer allows it. Apple didn't allow that even if the app devs wanted it.
Even better, they have lava!
Did he grab a hold of you and slap you in the face while talking to you in human language?
I aspire to be as cool as you.
Yes, I am the only one confused. It's not like half the tech internet blew a gasket over how confusing and bad the renaming of the generations were. Just me. I guess I should just read the whitepapers of every standard going forward, silly me.
So much self hate. It's sad.
Huge distrust in both the company and the man himself even after leaving the company. But I must say the world got a little more dull and gray when he died.
Right?
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Behind the scenes, here’s what those labels correspond to:
- USB 5Gbps: USB 3.0 and 3.1 Gen 1
- USB 10Gbps: USB 3.1 Gen 2, 3.2 Gen 2×1, and 3.2 Gen 1×2
- USB 20Gbps: USB 3.2 Gen 2×2
- USB 40Gbps: USB4’s initial version as currently shipping
That's cool. But even though it finally adds simplicity, it's still yet another renaming of the same things.
Here's a snippet from an article from 2019:
The upcoming 20 Gb/s USB 3.2 connection, which offers twice the speeds of the previous iteration, will be known as 'USB 3.2 Gen 2x2'. Its predecessor, 'USB 3.1' will be rebranded to 'USB 3.2 Gen 2', while 'USB 3.0', which ran at 5 Gb/s speeds, will be termed 'USB 3.2 Gen 1'.
Reading that I want to shoot myself, and even the latest change, which probably is a good one, drives me slightly mad due to the history of renaming everything so many times.
Send a spy in to steal their floppy.
Also this actively undermines quality in what they do, a requirement to make changes, may make people make changes that aren't needed, and even possibly changes that can be detrimental to the function.
Indeed, but not only that. Having employees that have as their only task to spend that much time on such a mind numbing task is pretty much in itself a guarantee for poor quality work. Such work should be divided up among people who do other things as well, so that they can break the video watching up in smaller pieces to be able to remain focused and do a better job.
The dear people at the USB Forum should be rewarded with the Nobel prize in namology for their clear, superior and non-confusing naming scheme and naming process that even the nerdiest of nerds can't follow.
Sadly for us, they have the robustness of being perpetually offline due to being old and crappy. I'm sure even their internet is just standalone computers that you have to carry floppies between.
They don't pay equally to everyone. They benefit large artists more than smaller ones. If you only listen to your totally unknown friend's music on Spotify, most of your money will still go to popular artists you don't listen to, and your friend will get nothing because they're below the threshold of getting a payment. It's basically theft. Now if some of those popular artists are Spotify themselves behind the scenes, guess where your money is being funneled.
Absolutely. But I'd rather deal with charging the battery in the adapter than risking breaking my headphone cable or my phone. So for me the problem is worth moving.
Well this is a solution for people who specifically don't want Bluetooth earbuds/headphones. If you don't mind buying those then you should of course buy those instead.
Oh no... With the constant moving to the right of US politics, what if we're just going to end up with pre-Trump Republicans taking over the Democrats and the Republicans just being the clown party of hate.
As someone who loves and needs wired headphones but loves the convenience of BT - The solution is a Bluetooth dongle.
- Plug your amazing headphones into the dongle
- Keep the dongle in your pocket
- Cable won't get caught as much
- Cable won't suffer as much wear
- Phone is much easier to handle
- If the headphone jack gets glitchy and bad it's cheaper to replace a dongle than a phone
Downside: Many (most?) BT dongles have shitty audio quality so you need to find a good one.