Admittedly, i’ve only had a couple cable problems and one of those would have likely been labeled wrong as they were cheap cables with max wattage programmed.

One of my users came to me with a C-C phone cable that had used between a MacBook pro and a Mac charger. “This got really hot and started to stink when I used it”

uhh, crap, here have this handed them a 6 foot 100w cable and please throw that old one away I’ll give you a new phone cable too.

My other problem is with QC on random cables. I have some 6’ that won’t pass 25w. I have a Klein tester that will enumerate wattage. I throw away cables that won’t at least support fast charging.

I also have a couple Samsung trio wireless multi-device chargers, they insonsistent. If I use the 45 watt Samsung brick that came with it it works fine. If I use any other brick, it refuses to use anything but a full on 65 watt charger. I don’t know if they ignore the spec, or enumerate differently, maybe they give a different output on 9v than others, but we need to have this overall issue with compatibility and semi-functional usage that just feels janky.

I hope that eventually with GaN and other tech that everything will just do 100w or maybe all devices will go down to only needing 45 watt. It would be super nice if everything just played well together.

never a free lunch :(

thanks!

I saw that one back in the day. Never seen any of it in the wild yet.

Would be nice to get TB/DP on there too.

What is this fight club? /s

You could totally talk about E2EE if the client was SA/Electron. If the blob is just getting transferred and stored and the passphrase is never transferred, that’s E2EE.

Come to think of it, if they throw in extra keys when you make your blob, it’s still E2EE, even if they have a key for it. Perhaps we need to think differently about E2EE being then end all.

I’m down with it, but it’s a lot

Wattage/transferspeed/displayport/thunderbolt/PD

Even the current icons don’t tell you more than speed these days

ok damnit, i’ll install facer :)

That was a little bit of a fight to install, but not miserable.

Wish the font was a touch larger and it would be cool to have some complications.

still, pretty fire.

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.

that means I try to charge something that either takes forever or never charges.

That’s a pretty significant failure IMO.

I don’t want to go back, but I want shit be labeled and work. You go to bed and wake up to a 7yo on a trip with a dead device, you’re going to have a bad day.

Well, that covers my phone, but then 45 watts won’t run my laptop, and if I plug in my phone and my laptop, they only get 22 watts each.

Then the cable: Can it be used for data transmission? What speeds does it cover? Will it transmit data through a DisplayPort or HDMI? If I unplug it from the power and plug it into the USB-C on my monitor, will I get video?

There are so many features, and it’s not like you can just go ohh I’ll get this USB-4_g cable and know what it does. Even the webpage for the Rundhult has no mention of what features are supported other than 100w.

The whole spec is complicated AF. You could spend $100 on a brick/cable that can do either 100W or high speed, but if you only need part of the equation, you can spend $30 on a brick and cable. What they support is almost never enumerated, even on the packaging.

Would have been nice for some kind of forethought on a labeling system.

But there’s so many combinations now of power, data, audio, and video, and sup glasses of thunderbolt, display port, HDMI. Even if you put a 4-digit code on every cable listing exactly what they support people would never be able to understand and track down backward compatibility.

I’d be surprised in the next port change if we don’t end up with some fiber optic in there.

So was LastPass. But when they’re source code leaked, turned out their encryption method was crappy. Just because something is encrypted doesn’t mean that it’s safe.

The key is that proton pass and bit warden and keypass are open source and have all passed independent security audits.

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.

Then 50 years later well put someone in power that says it never happened and rip it back out of the books.

These people, they had the same brains we have now. But they largely got by on a lot of physical labor so they had a lot of time to think. And they didn’t have a lot of exterior lighting to go around and do things in the dark so they had a lot of time to experiment inside.

I think it’s easier to consider that probably every combination of everything to eat and ways to cook things has been explored in depth. Every single seed of every weed out there has been ground and tried.

I am starting to see professional people in professional companies using Blender, It’s not everyone, it’s not everywhere, But I’m definitely getting requests for Blender plugins in a professional environment.

JFC, you know, I can see some problems arising from games/companies changing hands and shit going dark here and there on a game for a bit… but bullshit like this… this is the reason we can’t have nice things.

I need OBS on this new computer!

Let’s install the flatpack!

V4l problems

Plugins Problems

Wayland Problems

I’m just going back to the .deb, thanks.

American Public what?

I kid. But it’s damned bad. I used to live just south of a major city (Baltimore, 500k people) beltway and worked just north of it.

We have a “subway” that has 3 stops, between one single suburb community and an area that was the city center decades ago.

We have one Lightrail. It goes North/South through the center of the city. I was extremely fortunate to live and work within walking distance.

There’s a commuter rail that just follows the freight rail tracks south and east, and tickets are expensive and the trains only run a couple of times a day.

I was 32km from work, via lightrail, it took at least an hour and up to 3 hours each way.

It was 60km to drive around the beltway, that took roughly 30 minutes

Bus coverage is pretty good in poorer neighborhoods, and nearly non-existent when the neighborhoods reach non-poverty level. You’d literally need to walk down an expressway to get to the nearest bus stop where I am now. No sidewalks anywhere.

Looked them up. they JUST released something promising for IOS

https://christianselig.com/2025/05/godot-ios-interop/

You still need a lot of third-party help to get on a console, though.

I got teased for my shoes. I got better shoes, I got teased for my jacket, I got a better jacket. So then they just made shit up to tease me about.

I saw the fucker that bullied me relentlessly for all three years in middle school about 10 years later. He was pounding stakes in the ground setting up for a carnival. He stopped me in apologized which was kind of surprising. I gave him an absolutely hollow but convincing thanks and what about my day.

I did a little light internet stalking, turns out he’s vocal that can’t keep a job, construction companies fire him for “no reason” and he’s now down to whatever local company will hire him for physical labor. The only truly sad part is he has multiple children with multiple women and will not own up to any of them.

Though, I really suppose I owe a lot of who I am to the hell he put me through. Insults mean fuck all to me and I can ignore stress in a bad situation and make solid decisions.