heavyboots

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Someone still had faith in Google???

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

As much as I hate this and want it not to be true, it sure as hell looks true to me.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-ground-zero-day-after-911/

I mean, I dislike Biden pretty intensely but whatever alternative the Republicans are going to field is basically going to be using The Handmaid's Tale as a how-to guide, so I'll still be voting for him alas.

We desperately need ranked voted for all elections, and we need it yesterday so we can start to get away from this stupid 2 party system where everyone can only vote for the guy they think might win the final election rather than being able to rank the candidates by who they like the most with "the guy that can win" as a safety backup to who they like the most so their vote isn't thrown away.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I feel like a Brother laser printer is a much better solution unless you specifically need color. Also, if you try and print with a laser printer after a couple months of disuse, it should fire right up and print. The same is not necessarily true of an ink jet, where things may have dried out and clogged.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Let 3 or 4 go under as an example to the rest and see if they suddenly find they can make it happen after all? I do feel like there’s some merit to the idea they are gaming the system with lowball bids.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 11 months ago (13 children)

This definitely feels like a “you made your bed now sleep in it” situation. If they underbid to get the grants, that’s their problem. I am so tired of corporate socialism.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Well, he means absolutely only his speech should be free, of course.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (13 children)

I feel like this is almost where Apple is ahead of the game. Despite the EU hating it, they've been using the same lightning cable design for a long old time because it works well enough, it doesn't suffer USB-A's put it in 3 times to figure out which direction is right, and people have a billion of them laying around at this point.

EDIT: Too many people to respond to individually but I do realize from a technical perspective it’s an inferior cable. Just saying the user experience was better for a long time before USB-C arrived and the fact they never changed it makes it easy to find a cable to use if you forgot yours etc. Yes it’s slow but I am not transferring stuff off and my iPhone regularly, no I’ve never had one die from the pins burning out (although I do know people that’s happened to).

As for USB-C, I agree it’s better on paper and was excited when I got a laptop with USB-C but my personal experience trying to buy a PD cable that would actually deliver the rated 100w it was supposed to was abysmal. Went through multiple cables from Amazon that didn’t work for some reason, including Anker, and finally gave up and bought a cable from Apple that did work. But the fact some of them don’t do what they say they will and the fact you can end up with multiple black cables that all do different things but are completely unmarked as to what they do has made me very irritated with USB-C at this point, even while I do enjoy the higher speeds and power they can deliver once you figure out which cable is which.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have been using the Brooks Ghost series in all black as my go-to everyday wear for the last 4 or 5 years and really like them. Unfortunately, so does the rest of the world because it's basically impossible to find them on sale, alas.

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