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   silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 11:41:45 JST silverwizard
   Why haven't we, as a society, given up on USB-c as a failed experiment?
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 11:44:44 JST silverwizard

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     • Rev. Odessa Cathode Ray :vepi:
     @odessa the standard normal kinda flat USB ports were A (or host), the kinda weird squarish ones you probably only saw on a printer were B
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     Rev. Odessa Cathode Ray :vepi: (odessa@dobbs.town)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 11:44:45 JST Rev. Odessa Cathode Ray :vepi:

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     @silverwizard I never even saw USB-A or USB-B. What happened to them?

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 11:46:38 JST silverwizard

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     • Rev. Odessa Cathode Ray :vepi:
     @odessa sorry, I'm bad at the jokes! my brain is just four factoids in a fishbowl waiting to be your new friend
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     Rev. Odessa Cathode Ray :vepi: (odessa@dobbs.town)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 11:46:40 JST Rev. Odessa Cathode Ray :vepi:

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     @silverwizard Well now you've trampled on my poor attempt at humor :P

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     Rev. Odessa Cathode Ray :vepi: (odessa@dobbs.town)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 11:47:17 JST Rev. Odessa Cathode Ray :vepi:

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     @silverwizard That's interesting, though. I didn't know that.

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     Rev. Odessa Cathode Ray :vepi: (odessa@dobbs.town)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 12:25:02 JST Rev. Odessa Cathode Ray :vepi:

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     @silverwizard I consider myself friend to factoids and poor jokes alike. Welcome.

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2024 01:23:34 JST silverwizard

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     • Lester Ward
     @wordman the problem is that I've never had a long lasting cable and many of the physical ports die
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     Lester Ward (wordman@dice.camp)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2024 01:23:35 JST Lester Ward

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     @silverwizard I rather like USB-C myself, but now that the EU is making technical choices for all the companies in world to protect its precious children, you’re going to be stuck with it for decades.

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     Lester Ward (wordman@dice.camp)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2024 08:32:37 JST Lester Ward

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     @silverwizard That’s not been my experience, but I’m much more careful about which cables I buy than with other types of cables, as there is/was a ton of fraudulent product, particularly early on.

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2024 08:33:12 JST silverwizard

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     • Lester Ward
     @wordman for most it's that t he ports go tacky after a few months
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