I used to have this on all Apple cables but I haven’t had in a while now.

Whatever Apple did to make those cables was trash. But between the braided ones and the plastic ones it’s been 2 or 3 years since I’ve had one go brown.

Hopefully that improves things, and the logos are not weird and arcane like I half expected.

The USB consortium still doesn’t have their shit together, USBC is a garbage standard.

Open a drawer of random USBC cables and tell me which ones support which features, or even which features exist. It’s one connector and a half dozen different standards that support different speeds, data types, power amounts, display support, etc. It’s a nightmare to debug and shop for, and every devices you buy has a different random cable.

The only USBC standard thats good is Thunderbolt because it is always clear what it supports, but Intel owns that standard.

I’m not against phones being USBC, I’m against the stupid standard. Is incredibly annoying and confusing when I ask you for a cable and you give me one that doesn’t support fast charging (USB PD), or one that has usb 2.0 transfer speeds, or doesn’t support “alt mode” to work with my computer monitor.

Conversely, this is also because of Android owners with a chip on their shoulder taking everything as if it’s some affront to them.

I’ve got a friend who always shows up with a phone at 5% and asks to borrow an iPhone charger. She’s not flexing, she’s just always on her phone and direct charge it.

Yes. I think it does also turn on your TV for some reason.

I loved my windows phone 7, it was the best phone OS I’ve ever had.

I liked the UI, I liked the consistency and simplicity of the apps. I had Xbox music before Spotify really took off. The only problem was the trident based browser and Google specifically blocking all their apps and maps from it.

Then Microsoft just dropped support for it… I held out on 7.5 for as long as I could, and then my charge port failed and I upgraded to the HTC One, which was also pretty good.

This is the rare hobby crossover and it costs more than the sum of its parts.

D&D can be cheaper than wood working

It’s sad and frustrating to see a guy who was given every opportunity in life throw it all away.

Google does a great job from being tracked by other companies.

With a lot of things. Antitrust is dead.

but Safari is the new IE6, it doesn’t support the non-compliant Google Chrome only API I want to use and that’s tyranny!

If you go bigger than that the table layout falls apart.

I very delicately crafted those 743 pixel wide rectangle .gif headers to work with our futuristic rounded corners, but when you increase the browser width then gaps appear around the fixed width corner cells.

It’s “Thorp”.

The octothorp (easily recognized as #) is the symbol used in censorship. Has been for ages.

Sure, some modern online chatter now uses asterisks, but that’s only because they became the symbol for hiding passwords and in the eternal September people forgot about octothorp. But censorship is not hiding passwords, it’s saying “sh#t” instead of the proper word for fear of legal repercussions. Even markdown formatting is incompatible with the imposter that is the asterisk because it recognizes the true censorship history of the thorp.

They’ll need to install security and performance updates anyway for those apps to function. And time to first boot doesn’t really matter, the user already bought the device and they’ll presumably do it exactly once in 99% of cases.

Thank you, that makes sense but still feels unnecessary when they could install those apps with permission during setup.

I’m new to Android, why is this the case? Are these apps stored in the protected OS partition?

Neither are Google apps. According to my Pixel YouTube is essential for my device to work.

I can disable it but not delete it.

Oh, and if I want any weather I need to give my location to all Google services.

Well I am now, that’s romantic as fuck

“Honey, I named this branch after you. It changes whitespace in the readme of a major open source project, but it’ll look great on my resume!”

I’d probably buy one if they were nunchucks.