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I’ve gotten into quite a lot of systemd-related flame wars so far, and what strikes me is that I haven’t heard a single reason why systemd is good and should be used in favor of openrc/sysvinit/whatever.

“Hi I’m new to Linux, I switched from Windows to Alpine Linux and my laptop’s battery life has gone from 6 hours to 30 minutes before needing a charge.”

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Neurotypical people do not.

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Steelcut oats are just a vehicle for fruit and berries

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I still have my OG gameboy w/ Tetris near the toilet

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What about the hammerhead shark guys who looked like bebop and rocksteady?

Am I imagining them?

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youtube.com/watch?v=Ha7HAG6jVqc

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3-5 business days is the time it takes your bank to return your money to you, per your cardholder agreement.

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That’s a columnar stagger, not ortholinear.

I was kinda disappointed that this article didn’t explain columnar stagger.

I daily drive an iris by keebio.

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You can re-teach yourself.

Touch typing is like learning different languages. Just because you learn a new one doesn’t mean you forget the first.

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The idea is to get people used to visiting KFC.

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Why isn’t anyone even trying to guillotine our billionare megalomaniacs? 🤔

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Which Podman version are you running it on?

Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race?

Kamala Harris running a damn near flawless campaign, with just a month 1/2 of campaigning. She’s been holding rallies nonstop with Tim Walz & not making her talking points about her race or gender like Hillary. She’s offering expanded healthcare, reinvestments back into public housing, wants to take on corporate greed,...

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Trump was elected in 2016 because he got on twitter and was a birther dickhead.

Democrats ran Hillary and that was just a bridge too far for some Americans.

Democrats ran an old white man in 2020 and won.

2024 Democrats are running a black woman. Is that a bridge too far for Middle Amerikkka?

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A fountain pen is just a controlled leak

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SuperSpeed is not a “legacy” name.

It’s the name of a transfer rate.

I do not trust the maker of this infographic if they cannot understand some basic facts.

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They are not bad at this. You are bad at understanding it.

Don’t get mad when you could instead learn something.

Yes it gets complex. It’s a 25-year old protocol that does almost everything. Of course it will be.

But the names are not hard if you bother to learn them.

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I mean, they update the standard to add new things. Is that bad?

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USB in 1996: lets let you plug any device into the back of your computer.

USB in 2024: phones, tablets laptops are going to charge at crazy voltages and we’re going to show you 8k video all over the same port and you can insert it in both directions and we’re still going to connect any device to any device.

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If you have a 3.0 port on one device, a 2.0 port on the other device, and a 3.1 cable, you get 2.0 transfer speeds.

USB ports are not labeled with numbers. You just made up numbers to name several different things.

This is why you think things are “poorly labled”. Your headcannon is broken, not the labeling.

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USB Hi-speed transfer rate are just fine for devices that need to charge regularly but frequently transfer data wirelessly.

USB 2.0 stopped being a relevant whitepaper in late 2001.

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Additionally, USB 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2 labels provide no information on the speed

Correct.

USB X.X is the name of the technical whitepaper that describes the standard.

For a long time, USB had three transfer rates. The first legacy speed (slowest) was hardly ever used. The Second was called “Full Speed” and the fastest was called “Hi-speed”. Because people could not remember which if these two were faster, they referred to the whitepapers in which they were introduced.

When later versions of USB were introduced people have tried to continue this mental “shortcut” and have caused themselves nothing but confusion.

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Do you regularly read highly technical whitepapers? I don’t see how an 800 page document is comical for something that works so well.

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People do not want to be limited to 1m long cords or only have thick and stiff Thunderbolt3 cords with 20 different conductors for a wired mouse.

Minimum specs like you are proposing just make the standard less useful and would lead to more competing specs that aren’t compatible at all (a la lightning cables).

To be a truly “universal” spec, flexibility is king.

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It has to be optional to remain a “Universal” spec.

If it had more requirements, it would be more cumbersome to implement and device manufacturers would come up with completely different, completely incompatible cables and ports (a la Apple’s lightning) that would cause you even more headaches.

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Sometimes people want to charge their phone in an outlet 10 feet from their airport seat.

Sometimes people want to transmit 8k video.

It’s not physically possible to do both tasks with the same cable.

But because USB is a flexible standard, we don’t have two incompatible specs to do the same thing. So when you get out of the airport and to your meeting, you can actually plug your phone into the meeting room projector for your business presentation. That’s a win.

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There are at least 4 different incompatible 1/8" TRRS standards.

You couldn’t have picked a worse example.

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There’s even some devices charged with USB C that can’t be charged with a PD charger and need an A to C cable

Phones with qualcomm chips briefly had their own proprietary fast charging standards that were not a USB standard. You are unlikely to be using those devices in 2024. But is it USB-IF’s fault manufacturers tried to create proprietary standards to collect royalties?

Additionally they renamed the USB 3.0 standard which has been established for over a decade to USB 3.1 Gen 1 which is completely unnecessary and just serves to confuse

No they didn’t?

The 5Gbps transfer rate introduced in 2008 is called “Superspeed” and it always has been.

USB X.X is not a port or a transfer speed. It’s the standard (ie a technical whitepaper). The standard is updated as time marches on and new features are added.

The standard was largely understandable with USB 3.0 generally being blue or at least a color other than black and on decently modern devices USB 2.0 would be black.

This was never a requirement, but it was nice to know which Type-A ports had 8 pins vs 4-pins.

With USB-C indication has just about gone out the window and what used to be a very simple to understand standard has now become nearly impossible to understand without having researched every device and cable you interact with.

For the most part you just plug it in and it works. If you need something specific like an external GPU connection, you can’t use your phone charging cable, sure. Is that really that big of a deal?

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The don’t.

But give me an example of what you’re talking about. I’ll explain.

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They’re bad because manufacturers want to pass their usb 2.0 gear as “usb 3.0 compliant”, which it technically is, and their usb 3.0 gear as “usb 3.2” because 3.2 Gen 1x1 is also 5gbps.

The USB X.X is just the version of the standard and doesn’t mean anything for the capabilities of a physical device.

When a new standard comes out it superceeds the old one. Devices are always designed and certified according to the current standard.

Soooo…What are you talking about?

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They come to me for advice when those other workgroups changed some names retroactively again

Can you give a specific example of this?

I’d love to believe all your ethos arguments if you could give me some logos.

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480mbps

A device or port that does 480mbps transfer speeds is a “Hi-Speed” device/port. That’s the real name and always has been.

It doesn’t matter what version of the USB spec it was certified under. If it was designed between 2000 and 2008 it was certified under USB 2.0 or 2.1

If that device was certified between 2008 and 2013 then it was certified under USB 3.0. That absolutely doesn’t make it a “SuperSpeed” device/port, but that’s more than clear when we use the real names.

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the whole USB 3.2 Gen 2 2x2 (hands of blue) bullshit

If you’re not trying to wire your own USB port you can just use the recommended names “USB SuperSpeed 20 Gbps” or “USB 20 Gbps”. You don’t have to be confused by technical names if you don’t want to be.

The real bullshit is between your ears–you and only you can fix it.

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the history of renaming everything so many times.

Every time a new USB spec comes out the version number goes up. A new spec comes out because they add more features. The spec is a whitepaper that explains all the features. It’s a “The King is dead, long live the king!” situation.

If you just never used the version numbers to mean something that they never meant (transfer speeds) then literally none of this is confusing.

They’ve officially renamed the transfer speeds one time after people made a big huff. here’s how they changed:

  • USB SuperSpeed -> USB 5Gbps
  • USB SuperSpeed 10Gbps -> USB 10Gbps
  • USB SuperSpeed 20Gpbs -> USB 20Gbps

And If you can’t follow along with that, I’m really, really sorry. There’s not much I can do from a internet discussion board. XD

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Nobody uses that…Everybody literally on the planet agrees the system is moronic

Then just be as mad as you want–that’s the whole point of the news cycle anyways! Why bother learning? Congrats, chaos wins!

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Well if there’s anything I expect from the new-cycle masses, it’s rationality.

Heaven forbid, we try and do better!

I guess I should just read the whitepapers of every standard going forward, silly me.

You don’t have to read whitepapers to know the difference between Ethernet, CAT6 and RJ45 even if your grandpa doesn’t know the difference.

It’s not too much to expct the “nerds” to know the real names of PAN connections, too.

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The consumer facing names for those transmission specs are and have always been:

  • SuperSpeed 10 Gbps
  • SuperSpeed 20 Gbps

Unless you’re designing your own circuits you don’t need to worry about signaling rates (ie “Gen”) or lane configuration (Z×Y).

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Guns are a constitutional right.

So the only real way to stop school shootings is to get rid of schools.

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Why are people so interested in defining themselves along sexual identity and orientation in relatively recent western culture?

Why now? Why is it so different from most of human existence?

Because we are no longer facing famine. The Green Revolution has made our relationship with food so secure we no longer define ourselves in relation to it.

Throughout most of history people are farmers or ranchers or shepherds or bakers or butchers or millers.

So, we climb the Biological hierarchy of needs looking for our next characteristic that needs fulfillment.

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Identifying might be the best word to use, given the psychology literature all tends to use that, but thank you for your critique.

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In the book of Mark–the earliest Gospel–none of the disciples realize Jesus is the Son of God, lol.

Scholars call it the “Messianic Secret”.

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Gnosticism, to me, honestly feels like the true story of Christianity.

There are lots of unrelated ideas and beliefs grouped together as “Gnosticism”. The truth was that early Christianity was incredibly diverse, varied and local.

Only when the Emperor(s) got involved (around the third century) does there–like everything the Emperor’s did–need to be a uniformity and consistency so that Christianity reflects the Emperor’s fasces–his imperium and potestas.

You are no longer some rudderless Christian, you are a Roman Catholic Christian who worships the Jesus sponsored by the Emperor!

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Well, in some cultures, if you’re not cheating to get ahead you’re considered a sucker.

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Chinese gamers are probably the most prolific, yes. But, it’s not a Chinese-cultural characteristic.

I think it’s a characteristic you can find in any culture that where outcomes don’t seem to be distributed in a fair manner.

It’s like a society-wide version of oppositional-defiance disorder.

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Vim makes it easy to edit text in complicated ways, once you’ve learned it.

Vim is not easy to learn nor intuitive.

It is simple and compounding.

You might not ever edit enough text to ever need to learn a new skillset to edit text. If that’s the case, use nano.

But if you do find yourself editing a lot of text, consider trying vimtutor.

It takes 20 minutes and you’ll be proficient enough to match nano’s efficiency ceiling.

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Samland

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Better sleep would actually improve people’s lives rather than just making it worse.

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Pickling is one way to preserve food, but refrigeration is better.

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Cum like an Egyptian.

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