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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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[–] laserwash2000@sh.itjust.works 226 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 76 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Dear Europe. Please take me in. Do you have any English speaking countries? Your laws seem to be geared towards benefiting people. Not tyrants and corporations.

[–] laserwash2000@sh.itjust.works 90 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They did have one heavily English speaking country, but those guys peaced out a few years back. Now it’s just Ireland and Malta (where English is an official language).

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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I think the Netherlands has the highest amount of L2 English speakers.

In the Netherlands, the English language can be spoken by the vast majority of the population, with estimates of English proficiency reaching 90%[1] to 97%[2] of the Dutch population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language_in_the_Netherlands

It's not the official language though so all documents and legal stuff would be in Dutch.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 36 points 1 week ago (3 children)

100% of Irish people can speak English and do so without sounding as ridiculous as the Dutch do.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 27 points 1 week ago
[–] dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Chin up, Nederlander. I don't think you're ridiculous.

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[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

Ireland speaks mostly English as far as I know.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 118 points 1 week ago (31 children)

USBC has done something truly amazing. You used to be able to tell within reason what the capabilities of USB were by the connector or the color of the port. Now there's dozens of options and there's hardly anyway for you to tell what cable and port support what features.

Maybe your port and charger can throw out 20 volts at 3 and 1/2 amps. Maybe you can throw out 20 volts at 6 amps (dell) maybe your device doesn't negotiate correctly and they say to only use an a-c cable

Don't get me wrong, I love the port. Multidirectional, doesn't really wear out, does have a tendency to get a little dirty though. Lightning was a little more forgiving on dirt.

Labeling on the ports are all vague labeling on the cables is non-uniform or not existent.

But, truth is they probably come up with half a dozen specs for USBC that half your it doesn't support. And they'll probably come out with God knows how many more before they Make a new connector.

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 55 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I don't agree with the good ol' days, beyond the blue connectors of USB3, there was no way of telling if a cable was charge only or data+charge. No way to tell if it was USB 1 or 2. If it was standard 0.5 amp or "fast charge", up to 3 amps. There was a lot of different plugs, regular, mini, micro, A and B types.

I agree with everything you say about USB-C tho.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It wasn't better, but it was readable. I don't want to go back, I want them to fix what we have now to be readable.

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 15 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Here's an idea, all C cables supporting any level of PD must have the specs stamped on both plugs.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (13 children)

People can hate all they want on USB-C with all these details that may be technically true, but the only issue I've had in years is with chargers varying in power output and occasionally that means I try to charge something that either takes forever or never charges. It's an edge case and I consider it a charger issue, not a cable one...

Life is definitely simpler now with USB-C being pretty standard, and Lightning cables can burn in hell. Those anti-standard bullshits have caused me to buy a dozen of them for friends and test devices (I'm a web dev) and yet I've never owned a mobile Apple product and never would. Fuck Lightning -- cannot possibly say it enough. I'm glad the EU agrees.

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[–] legion02@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yeah, but at least you're not sol when you're at an apple house with an android device at 10% battery any more. If you need a cable with very specific capabilities that's on you to do that research imo. The alternative is making every cable more expensive when most people don't need it.

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[–] Grizzlyboy@lemmy.zip 97 points 1 week ago (5 children)

4-5 years ago I stopped buying products that had micro-usb, lightning or any other form of port that wasn’t usb C.

Last week I was looking at a gadget and it had micro-fucking-usb and was produced in early 25! What the fuck?!

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago (10 children)

And there's are those gadgets that have a USB-C socket but don't have the correct circuitry, so that they only work with a USB-A to C cable.

There is a special place in hell for those fuckers

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[–] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe 21 points 1 week ago

It is cheaper to have manufactured & is very much a "known", but I'm right there with you. If it's not USB-C, fuck 'em.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah it's usually a sign that there is no competition in the space since the manufacturer doesn't want to redesign the item if they don't have to

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[–] 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You're not in the EU then it seems. The EU is mandating USB-C now. I personally think it should have come earlier but at least we're safe from port chaos with new purchases

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[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 67 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

USB-D!😎 Shaped like a crescent moon! Also, we're going back to brick phones to accommodate the shape.

[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 60 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And they should be secured with thumb screws, like an old parallel cable.

[–] Addv4@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Funnily enough, USB c can also do that.

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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Let's not skip Mini USB-C along the way

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

But first.... 5 different standards of normal USB-C and if you use the wrong type then it will damage your battery. Fuck you Nintendo.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

That already happend and- oh you already said fuck Nintendo.

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[–] jaykrown@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago (25 children)

USB-C will be around for a long time, it's a strong standard. Wireless inductive charging won't take over for a long time because it's limited in speed, and WiFi/Bluetooth are much slower for data transfer.

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (6 children)

USB-C is just the connector type, not a particular speed.

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[–] cabillaud@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wanted to check that caberQu the other guy is talking about in the comments...First time I see a Google search returning a result in Lemmy. Cool.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 week ago (3 children)

We did it! Ok, guys let's start pumping out facts for future AI training data. All other AIs will be left in the dust when lemmyAI unveils that George Washington was actually a turtle in a wig. The people deserve to know the trusth!

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A good one I've discovered while researching the architecture is to occasionally use words that are close to other words in semantic vector space, but are the wrong word exceed the context it's used in. Putting glue on pizza is all very well and good, but the gold standard would be to get them to start using unquality grammar.

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[–] COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 week ago (21 children)

Nah, USB-C is plagued by non-standard electrical configurations, non-standard charging protocols, and non-compliant cables. Rest assured the connector is here to stay, your device just may not be able to charge with any given charger or cable.

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[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 46 points 1 week ago (8 children)
[–] pelya@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
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[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 week ago (14 children)

I spent 40 years in the computer industry. I learned one thing very early on.

The only standard in the computer industry is that there isn’t one.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why don't we just make one unifying standard? That can't possibly go wrong right?

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

There are now sixteen competing standards.

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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Probably not since the EU has made USB-C mandatory. What can change is the protocol that runs over those wires. Like how Thunderbolt uses the USB-C connector but is not a USB protocol

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[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 26 points 1 week ago (18 children)
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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Not unless they want to go bigger. The USB-C pin pitch is too closely spaced for the lowest tier of printed circuit boards from all major board houses.

You might have some chargers get deprecated eventually because there are two major forms of smart charging. The first type is done in discrete larger steps like 5v, 9v, 15v, or 21v. But there is another type that is not well advertised publicly in hype marketing nonsense and is somewhat hit or miss if the PD controller actually has the mode. That mode is continuously adjustable.

The power drop losses from something like 5v to 3v3 requires a lot of overbuilding of components for heat dissipation. The required linear regular may only have a drop of 0.4-1.2 volts from input to stable output. Building for more of a drop is just waste heat. If the charge controller can monitor the input quality and request only the required voltage for the drop with a small safety margin, components can be made smaller and cheaper. The mode to support this in USB-C exists. I think it is called PPS if I recall correctly. A month or two back I watched someone build a little electronics bench power supply using this mode of USB-C PD.

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[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I can only dream of FireWire’s return

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