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One of my cats is very much like a dog and demanding attention, she wants to be cuddled non-stop and carried around, and then there's her cousin, who came from a similar breeder. However, the cousin was a breeding queen, and as such was kept in a kennel for most of her life and had very little interaction with humans. So she is what we call a stripper cat: you can look at her but you certainly can't touch. We've had Bailey for about 4 years now, and only recently has she apparently come to trust us enough where she will sit by us if we're watching TV, and we can pet her if she comes over to us, but we'll probably never be able to pick her up or initiate contact. Mew on the other hand, will throw herself on the ground in front of you and wrap her legs around you. Trying to keep you still so you can pet her. And more than once she's taken a flying vault of a leap so she can land on your chest and be carried around. lovely thing: It's monsoon season in Phoenix, and I remember many years ago as a kid, the entire month of July was nonstop thunderstorms and we had flash floods by washes. This year we've been lucky to have maybe one or two days of sprinkling. So I guess climate change and a lack of rain is what I'm trying to specify now. I mean we've got saguaro cactuses falling over from lack of water.
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My Lenovo dock keeps turning off the monitore and I have to constantly unplugged and replug them in to get my screens back. According to the internet complaints this has been a problem for years. How do you gently caress up this badly?
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Aug 22, 2023 23:26
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Lenovo fell off hard as soon as it laid off their holdover IBM staff. Who thought it was a good idea to use a flimsy usb-c connector for my laptops AC adapter? And why is it that the plug to adapter is a cheap separate part but the expensive adapter is stuck with usb-c?
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Dell does it too. Misguided attempt at standardizing laptop charging infrastructure across brands. For phones, tablets and anything that weighs less than a kilo, USB-C is loving amazing and i love it. For laptops it's the stupidest thing ever.
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Aug 23, 2023 11:44
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Yeah, my work Dell has a USB C charger and I've cracked two of those flimsy plastic housings just in the last year. I barely move my computer at all, and never with the cable in!
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My work MBA uses USBC and every so often decides that it prefers one port to another. Why? gently caress you.
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USB-C is awesome for moving the laptop between docks, dock compatibility with multiple laptops, and not having to carry a charger in your laptop bag
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I feel like we are missing the point of “universal” serial buss
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Yeah, USB-C and PD rules. I can charge all of my devices with the same chargers and everything plugs into the same dock.
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My Lenovo dock at work has a standard power adapter magnetized to the USB C for the dock functions. Outside of flicking my monitor on and off when the computer goes to sleep it has been ok.
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steinrokkan posted:Yeah, my work Dell has a USB C charger and I've cracked two of those flimsy plastic housings just in the last year. I barely move my computer at all, and never with the cable in! This is what concerns me about it. I feel like I have to be extremely careful when plugging in or out or when repositioning the laptop while it's plugged in. Sort of robs the laptop of one of its most practical selling points.
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Serious_Cyclone posted:This is what concerns me about it. I feel like I have to be extremely careful when plugging in or out or when repositioning the laptop while it's plugged in. Sort of robs the laptop of one of its most practical selling points. I worked on a board for a couple years that had a SMD USB-C port, and the physical design of the USB-C SMD part is the weakest link in the hardware of the standard. It's so tiny, so complex, very hard to work on/fix, and leaves a lot of room to break pins or traces with minor flex.
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they call me 3.5mm jack cause of my
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MrQwerty posted:I worked on a board for a couple years that had a SMD USB-C port, and the physical design of the USB-C SMD part is the weakest link in the hardware of the standard. It's so tiny, so complex, very hard to work on/fix, and leaves a lot of room to break pins or traces with minor flex. Yeah I have a ThinkPad that I really like, but it has a USB-C charging port and I feel like I have to line it up with all of the precision of docking to the International Space Station to prevent it from flexing. There doesn't seem to be any room for error at all. MacBooks seem to have figured this out a long time ago, although I think they also went through a USB-C era in the last few years because reasons.
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Serious_Cyclone posted:Yeah I have a ThinkPad that I really like, but it has a USB-C charging port and I feel like I have to line it up with all of the precision of docking to the International Space Station to prevent it from flexing. There doesn't seem to be any room for error at all. MacBooks seem to have figured this out a long time ago, although I think they also went through a USB-C era in the last few years because reasons.  pins on the top row are damaged on this one, I probably picked it up off the floor after someone left a bunch of trash there because there was a jammed reel. it's got 4 anchors, 2 at the front and 2 at the back, and all 24 of those tiny rear end pins right next to the flex point on the rear anchors. It's really delicate, way more than it's acknowledged to be by manufacturers since devices are "disposable" I guess.
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A shameless repost from local reddit:
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Checkout fee ???
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I want chilli relleno now
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euphronius posted:Checkout fee ??? how are we supposed to afford paying people minimum wage or below in this economy otherwise!?
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Are we just adding whatever bullshit fees we want now? Can I charge stores a payment fee?
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Is that a fee for using a credit card? I heard that that was recently legalized and have noticed some businesses doing it. They usually frame it as a discount for cash though.
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Just raise the price by 3.5% per entree and nobody would notice, but attach a ridiculous fee for the crime of dining in-restaurant and you will immediately lose customers.
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One of my faves was doing carry-out ordering from Olive Garden (my wife and I are both caucasian, if you couldn't tell). I included a tip on the checkout that was carried through and reflected on the receipt I had to sign on pick-up, but underneath it was a line labeled "Additional Tip: ___________"
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Outrail posted:Are we just adding whatever bullshit fees we want now? Can I charge stores a payment fee? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCT3jm1A-5U
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euphronius posted:I feel like we are missing the point of “universal” serial buss I know that's nice, but the problem with the docking stations that have a thick, stiff cable to deliver 90w to a laptop as well as carry a bunch of data lines, is that the stiff cable will put a ton of stress on the USB-C connector and eventually damage it. The standard barrel connector on older Dell laptops does not have that issue. It is larger and can rotate freely - though even those will occasionally break. Not in as high numbers as i've seen the USB-C docking station connectors break, or break the socket for it on the motherboard which especially sucks. If the docking station cable was as thin as a phone charging cable, this whole problem would not exist but you can't send 90w of power as well as a bunch of high speed data through a little phone cable.
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I treat my work mbp with nothing but contempt and never have these issues. You guys have cheap dells and that’s the real issue.
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Internet Old One posted:I treat my work mbp with nothing but contempt and never have these issues. You guys have cheap dells and that’s the real issue. About 4 years ago MacBooks had the exact same problem. Glad they seem to have learned their lesson at least.
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Internet Old One posted:I treat my work mbp with nothing but contempt and never have these issues. You guys have cheap dells and that’s the real issue.
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MrQwerty posted:I worked on a board for a couple years that had a SMD USB-C port, and the physical design of the USB-C SMD part is the weakest link in the hardware of the standard. It's so tiny, so complex, very hard to work on/fix, and leaves a lot of room to break pins or traces with minor flex. I had to replace my new Lenovo laptop recently because the usb-c charging port was damaged somehow (power surge, flexing,etc); unfortunately, the damaged port was on the motherboard rather than a sister/daughter board and I have no technical proficiency, so to repair/replace the motherboard would have cost (labor/parts) about the same as simply buying an all new computer. Honestly, I only really use my comp as a word processor/email machine and I do harbor serious concerns regarding tech pollution, so I try not to replace my laptop/electronics more often than absolutely necessary (kept my predecessor laptop for approximately a decade), so that really chapped me
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Brother Tadger posted:I had to replace my new Lenovo laptop recently because the usb-c charging port was damaged somehow (power surge, flexing,etc); unfortunately, the damaged port was on the motherboard rather than a sister/daughter board and I have no technical proficiency, so to repair/replace the motherboard would have cost (labor/parts) about the same as simply buying an all new computer. Honestly, I only really use my comp as a word processor/email machine and I do harbor serious concerns regarding tech pollution, so I try not to replace my laptop/electronics more often than absolutely necessary (kept my predecessor laptop for approximately a decade), so that really chapped me it's pretty much always gonna be on a mobo because of the bus and it's mostly gonna be flex breaking solder/lead/ripping the board up. It's a really bad part, straight up, as far as stress goes. No way around it. We had printing issues with the apertures on the screen across two continents the entire time we ran that board. I'm sure part of it was the Dek printers all being ~20 and reaching EOL, but those apertures are very small and I assume that SMD USB-C parts account for a lot of rework in soldering factories.
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Serious_Cyclone posted:Just raise the price by 3.5% per entree and nobody would notice, but attach a ridiculous fee for the crime of dining in-restaurant and you will immediately lose customers. They almost certainly did raise the prices already lol.
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Yeah as someone who does desktop support, the biggest failure item I've seen on laptops, other than batteries, are the USB-C ports. Like was mentioned above, the cables from docks are thicker, so less flexible, but you'd better believe people will cram those cords up against their cubicle walls and the stress will break the cable, if you're lucky*, the USB-C port if you're not. *Not THAT much luckier, since even though Dell made it so you CAN replace the USB-C cable on the WD15 or WD19 docks, they don't actually SELL those parts directly, anymore. At least not as far as I can tell. They even seemed to stop selling the "WD19TB upgrade kit" which could accomplish the same goal if you have a broke USB C cable, albeit at a higher price (or same price if you already HAD TB versions of the dock.) So there's more stuff that's shittier. It's one thing to just NOT make parts user replaceable, but I feel like it's a bit shittier to make them use replaceable, in theory, but then just never actually sell the replacement parts. V V V I'm just talking about the USC cable from the dock, it's already designed to come off and get replaced, they just stopped making/selling the parts V V V DrBouvenstein fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Aug 23, 2023 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:So there's more stuff that's shittier. It's one thing to just NOT make parts user replaceable, but I feel like it's a bit shittier to make them use replaceable, in theory, but then just never actually sell the replacement parts. the problem with making the USB-C part replaceable is that you just have to make a board for the USB-C SMD part with an interconnect plug with another board, increase the thickness of the device and increase the cost of manufacturing in a pretty massive way. it's a bad system and it needs to change cuz I've watched it go down, but pretty much any option other than status quo is $$$+++
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Just pay money to upload your Docs to The Cloud©️™️ for only $29.95 per month and replace your hardware for $2-5k semiannually when the parts™️©️™️ break
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power through PORTS!? what about WIRELESS CHARGING 100% OF THE TIME I think my S8+ has only charged through wireless for about 4.5/6 years of its life MrQwerty fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Aug 23, 2023 |
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McDonald's menus. They flick through a bunch of disjointed items and colours and don't even tell you all the options. Just give me a list of your garbage and how much it costs. At least stop cycling through different screens, I can't even read all the options. It's so loving dumb.
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Outrail posted:McDonald's menus. They flick through a bunch of disjointed items and colours and don't even tell you all the options. Just give me a list of your garbage and how much it costs. At least stop cycling through different screens, I can't even read all the options. It's so loving dumb. bring back the loving dollar menu. if a cheeseburger is loving $3 you may as well just make it yourself.
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Cowslips Warren posted:bring back the loving dollar menu. if a cheeseburger is loving $3 you may as well just make it yourself. 
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DoubleT2172 posted:The Federal Reserve took that from us drat those fat cats at the Federal Reserve eating all of McDonalds reserve of McDoubles Just the fattest cats 
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