limelight79

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah. I grew up in the days of serial ports and parallel ports, and USB in general is so much better for most purposes. (I recall plugging my first mouse into the serial port...but wait! Where will my Hayes Smartmodem modem plug into then? Also, don't plug and unplug things from the serial port while the computer is running.)

And USB-C is even better. My tablet needs a charge? Well my laptop charger is right here... My phone is low and needs a quick charge? Well my USB-C tablet charger will give it a decent boost very quickly. No worries about getting it plugged in the wrong way, either.

I have a docking station for my work laptop, so when I had to replace my personal laptop, a laptop that supported USB-C power delivery was mandatory. I don't use it with the docking station very often, but knowing I can without an issue is great. My wife also has a Macbook that works on the docking station, too, in case she ever wants to use my dual monitor setup. All three laptops, from three different brands, are just plug in and go.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shouldn't it be an X 2.0? Did he just deadname his own company?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The whole page is the point. You don't seem to be very informed on the situation; you claimed it was just a few friends. I was trying to tell you it was a systemic issue, and the long page is evidence of that.

I'm guessing you're religious and trying to avoid facing the fact that religions do bad things, too. Well, guess what? They do.

"Ragging on religious institutions" lol. Seems like you just want to bury your head in the sand.

I've scrolled through your comments and realize now you're a Trump fan, so I now realize I've been wasting my time. There's no point in trying to explain something to Trump fans, you guys are beyond help. And I'm guessing your "government school" comment is referring to the (insane, untrue) claims that schools indoctrinate kids to be trans or whatever the hell they are claiming today. So, don't bother replying, I'm just going to add you to my block list, and I won't see it any way.

Trump fans. Just keep drinking that Flavor-Aid. Still supporting that jackass after all of the stupid shit he has done. The "party of law and order" supporting churches that covered up pedophiles for years. Insane.

And yes, he is racist. If you think otherwise, you're burying your head in the sand, again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Please read up on it. I'm sure now they do have that policy, but...it was an extremely widespread problem, literally all over the world. Any claim that they've fixed the problem is going to be met with skepticism for a long time, and rightly so. They worked HARD to hide it.

I do think the Catholic church was right about one thing - it likely happened in other churches as well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Uh, it was more of an institutional policy. That's why it was such a scandal.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Unfortunately some churches have a reputation for covering up the crime and not punishing the perpetrator.

It's one thing for the crime to happen; it's much worse when a bunch of people decide to hide it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Some subs are very negative. I remember antimlm was, as well, people spent all day mocking people who got involved in MLM schemes. I subbed for a while because my wife was in one, and I was hoping for help, advice, tips, etc., but it was all just mocking them and calling them "hon bots" or whatever the term was. I had to unsub, I don't need that negativity in my life.

The hobby subs, on the other hand, always seemed extremely supportive, or at least the ones I was in were. For example, the radio control (cars, planes, boats, etc.) sub members were totally into it and totally supportive of whatever it was you were doing. It was inspiring and made me want to get back into the hobby. Those kinds of subs were the best part of reddit, and unfortunately we haven't recreated that energy for things like that here - just not enough users.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I do agree with the non-unique naming complaint though. Do I want to use Messages or Messages?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Uh shouldn't it be Earth?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can I bitch about that redaction for a bit? Someone hit our car while it was parked on federal property. There were cameras, and the security people figured out who did it (and called them, and they denied it). When we finally got the police report, all of the information for identifying the guilty party had been redacted, along with the officer's name and any other useful information. For a literal fender bender. Shitty driver got away with it. The police report was completely useless. I can only imagine my insurance company was like, "We waited 3 weeks for THIS?" They might as well have sent over a blank page.

I get the idea behind redacting stuff in general, but that one just pissed me off.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I was on the phone with our ISP after our internet service went out. The rep asked me if the box had a green light on it - yes - then asked me to plug a light into the same outlet and confirm the power was on. I said, "Look, I understand you have to follow a script, but you literally just asked me to confirm the power light on the box was on. Clearly the power is working."

Same ISP sends me an email whenever we have a power outage letting me know that our internet might not work when the power is out. (I've joked that this email arrives before the ceiling fans have come to a stop.) But when my internet goes down, they're completely clueless. "Ohhhh it must be that your power is out even though we monitor that closely and aren't showing a power outage right now!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Because I didn't know it existed until now. :) I'll have to look into that, thanks.

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