.world really is the Reddit of lemmy smdh my damn head.

A gallon throughout the course of a day will not harm an adult.

Ur-fascism is about semiotics, not history.

There’s a bunch of great stuff in there, but you gotta read the twenty pages before and after any quote to get what’s being said and why.

That’s true, but at least one a week for a few years now versus four ever? Nah. The ports too delicate for what users put it through.

Plus I get more apple stuff in general than the marketshare numbers would dictate. It gets repaired and resold longer. Massive amounts of usbc devices are throwaway and gimmies from institutions and carriers and are just disposed of when they break.

Some of that effect is the expense of apple stuff, some of it is the emotional attachment people build with a computer after they’ve used it for ten years, some of it is just plum retained value. People aren’t gonna chuck a laptop they can resell for $400 when it needs a $100 repair.

Just go to the website and scroll down. It’s real easy.

Oh you don’t have to tell me that usb phones have been in pockets. i know.

I fix electronics and people bring in phones all the time. Even though I’m not a phone shop and don’t even have a bench set up for phones. I get way, way more usb phones in for ports than lightning ones.

Now it’s not just usbc (although nowadays it almost always is), but I keep a big ol bin of different usb ports to replace with. I have done four lightning ports in comparison.

If people are lucky they just didn’t have a small enough pin to clean out the crud from around the tongue. Some will have one of the pins on the tongue bent back and shorting something out and confusing the controller, they might be able to get by without it or it may work for a little while once it’s straightened back out but I know that one’s coming back soon. Most have damage to the tongue from cleaning too vigorously using a field expedient tool or the port component itself is ripped off the board due to how well the very strong annular connection between a usbc port and cable transfer torque.

I like usbc for a bunch of stuff, but phones ain’t it.

Oh yeah. You’re not getting 480 out of that wire and airdrop is totally faster. 4k isn’t awful over airdrop though. Maybe I’m just glad it’s not ntsc real time capture like back in the day…

Ultimately I agree with you. It would have been good to add the other “side” to the receptacle and have plenty of lanes. You’d need some way to show that a wire is new lightning, but that’s small potatoes.

Ultimately though even with the bad speeds I think lightning is the better connector for a phone. Not many people are transferring video off their phone using a wire, most upload it directly. But everyone puts their phone in their pocket. I’ll take the connector you can easily and safely clean lint out of over the one that saves time transferring video any day.

The phones all use heuristics to charge as slow as possible anyway in order to save the battery. A faster changing standard clearly isnt the solution.

Idk what you’re doing with your phone that 500Mbps isnt good enough. If it’s about system backups the first one takes fifteen minutes and everything afterwards is a diff.

Nah. The only thing usbc has over lightning is transfer rates and charging speed.

Transfer rates don’t matter because how often do you dump 128gb over the wire and 500Mbps isn’t good enough?

Charging speed kinda matters but not really because the charge controllers on the phones are throttling down the lightning chargers anyway.

Remember: the eu is forcing usbc, a port designed for general purpose use that has a bunch of delicate pins and a plastic tongue, to replace lightning, a much simpler port designed to go in pockets.

This will ultimately make you unhappy.

It takes at least decade for the carbon from manufacturing to be offset by the lack of emissions from the ev’s daily operation.

Assuming zero carbon electricity generation used in the ev. Local electricity mix will adjust that number up.

If you really want to have a bad time: we don’t have enough lithium to replace even half the cars currently on the road, not counting all the other uses for it aside from ev batteries.

The only two ways out of this are fewer cars or fewer people. When someone suggests the latter path, be sure to ask them who and why.

They’re whitelist for federation, yeah.