It’s great in terms of gauging comfort to humans, awful for everything else

@dave we should just make a new unit of measuring temp. 0 is freezing 200 boiling. More fine tuning of temperature that would be better for measuring human comfort.

@top Nah celsius is fine as it is. Adding a 4th temp scale to the mix is literally just doing the meme

@dave @top In the case of chargers:

"We'll make our own standard so the competition don't get to make gear for us, and so we can milk the market that we carve out for ourselves, he he."

@blobfrog @top I’m glad the EU passed that law mandating USB-C for exactly that reason. Proprietary shit needs to go

@dave @blobfrog @top What happens if you make a new device that uses mini-USB and sell in in the EU? Jail?

@caekislove @blobfrog @top The question is: Why would you make a new device that uses mini-USB?

@caekislove @blobfrog @top Actually, I think all the people that ever made any mini-USB devices should just go to jail anyways

@dave @blobfrog @caekislove @top
I am actually quite pissed at that law.
Because if tomorow, USB D is created, and it's superior, it will take these clowns 30 years to let EU finally use that thing too.

I guarantee, that this law will hurt the entire IT industry. It will be like PS5. Noone will use it, since all devices will still have to be sold in Europe too, so they will bend over backwards to just fit in USB C anyway.

@LukeAlmighty @blobfrog @caekislove @top Part of the beauty of USB-C is that you can add new standards if you want, it’s mainly about

Making sure the cables and chargers aren’t going to wind up as e-Waste
Making sure you’re not having to buy/produce extra chargers and cables just because someone (Apple) wants their shit to be proprietary

@dave @blobfrog @caekislove @top
You used to be able to add new standards on USB A too. Technology just does move on. And laws rarely do.

@LukeAlmighty @blobfrog @caekislove @top Type-C solved a few common annoyances that couldn’t be fixed with new data protocols:

Mini/Micro connectors wearing out due to moving parts on cheap connectors, which end up getting inserted/removed hundreds or thousands of times on devices like your phone
Especially with Type-A, it felt like it took an average of 3 insertion attempts to actually plug the damn thing in. And with mini and micro, you still needed to remember which way to plug in your connector, which is going to be different for each device. Now you can do it blind on the first try with all devices.

@dave @blobfrog @caekislove @top
Yes...
That is my point against that stupid law.
Thanks for clearing the points up a bit.