IcedRaktajino
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- Comment on When something still uses micro USB in 2025 6 hours ago:
No. I’m not, and I don’t think anyone in the comments that I’ve read are saying that either. Geesh!
Stuff ages out. Stuff breaks. Old stuff gets relegated to a drawer or re-purposed. All that (most?) people here are saying is that when you do buy something new, there’s an expectation that it use the current standard.
- Comment on When something still uses micro USB in 2025 8 hours ago:
Yeah, that’s annoying for sure. I just bought a handful of cables of known specs that “do it all” and it’s been pretty smooth sailing.
They’re all 3ft or 6ft, 100 watt e-marked, and video capable The only one that’s not is my 10ft one - it’s “only” 100 watt rated but doesn’t do video and is limited to USB 2.0 speeds. I only use that one as a power cord for my laptop, though, and it’s bright red so it’s not like I’m gonna mistake it for anything else.
- Comment on When something still uses micro USB in 2025 8 hours ago:
I"m not so much against it (it was good enough in its time). I’ve just come to appreciate the mostly “universal” aspect of USB-C and being able to grab any cable from my bag without looking or digging and have it be the correct cable (all my cables are 100W and video capable, so no matter my need, it will be the right cable).
In a lot of ways, I now see anything with less than USB-C as being like the old, oddly-sized barrel jack connectors. Yeah, it works. Yeah, it’s fine. But it’s also now an oddball cable I have to carry around.
I’m old and resist the future in a lot of ways, but USB-C isn’t one of them lol.
- Comment on When something still uses micro USB in 2025 17 hours ago:
Same. I went all-in on USB-C about 3 years ago. My house is still cluttered with cables, but at least I can grab any one of them and charge any device.
- Comment on When something still uses micro USB in 2025 18 hours ago:
That’s just for a vendor ID though for data, right? For basic 5V power (non-Power Delivery), they’d just need the connector and a couple of resistors. I’ve got some cheap-ass devices with USB-C, and even disposable vapes (yuck) have USB-C for charging.
- Comment on When something still uses micro USB in 2025 22 hours ago:
I have 4 of them, but they keep getting lost or semi-permanently attached to Raspberry Pis or ESP-32 boards. The rest of my micro-usb devices have largely been phased out.
- Comment on When something still uses micro USB in 2025 23 hours ago:
I could not disagree more lol. Everyone likes to shit on micro USB, but of all the form factor I’ve used over the years. the mini connectors always seemed to wear out the fastest.
- Comment on to whomever needs to hear it 1 day ago:
I’m a dude and have been dieting and exercising lately. I didn’t need to hear this :(
- Comment on When something still uses micro USB in 2025 1 day ago:
I have C->Micro adapters though they aren’t tethered. I’m just spoiled by only carrying C cables in my bag and being able to just grab any cable without looking or digging (they’re all 100W and video-capable except my 10ft one).
- Comment on pizza 1 day ago:
La reacción es apropiada
- Comment on When something still uses micro USB in 2025 1 day ago:
Probably, yeah. I was similarly disappointed when my Kobo came with micro USB, but considering I love everything else about it, I gave it a pass. That, and I typically only have to charge it once a month.
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- Comment on Why doesn't Star Trek use TrekLit for streaming shows? 2 days ago:
I’m currently reading “Star Trek: Destiny” and the Borg seem to be the big bad.
- Comment on Why doesn't Star Trek use TrekLit for streaming shows? 2 days ago:
I don’t really have a solid answer, and have only recently gone down the TrekLit rabbit hole, but I’d venture a couple of guesses:
- Many of them utilize existing characters, so that might be problematic given the age of the cast and/or their availability.
- I vaguely recall that existing characters for different series have to pay royalties to the writer who invented the character. I think this was the case for Nick Locarno and Tom Paris
- Probably some other IP legalese mucking things up as it is wont to do
When I posted yesterday looking to get some book suggestions, many of them involved existing characters. I think the “The Fall” series is all original characters, so it would probably be a good candidate. There’s probably others, but I’m not familiar enough yet to name any more.
The actor age / availability problem is probably solvable if the series was animated, though.
- Comment on Paused my DS9 rewatch to read "A Stitch in Time" and am so glad I did 3 days ago:
The Destiny trilogy by David Mack
Bought that one yesterday and am literally reading it now. Loving it so far; the pacing is fantastic.
- Comment on Paused my DS9 rewatch to read "A Stitch in Time" and am so glad I did 3 days ago:
Not long after the end of DS9. Garak is back on Cardassia Prime helping to rebuild after the end of the Dominion War. The framing structure of the book is a series of journal entries and letters from Garak to Dr. Bashir, so it covers a lot of time periods.
- Comment on What are your favorite Star Trek books? 3 days ago:
The cover makes me think “B-movie RomCom” and now I have to buy this.
- Comment on What are your favorite Star Trek books? 3 days ago:
DS9 Millennium
Bought that trilogy and will read it after ST: Destiny
New Frontier series
That one was also recommended. It’s in the wish list, but I gotta figure out the reading order and buy them in order.
Invasion (4 books)
I didn’t even see those when I was looking, but will search for them directly.
The fall (5)
Also on the wish list :)
The buried age
Will check it out.
Thanks for the suggestions, and nice stack/collection! One of the drawbacks of ebooks is they’re not great for showing off or filling up a bookcase lol.
- Comment on What are your favorite Star Trek books? 3 days ago:
This one, right? Added it to my wish list.
- Comment on What are your favorite Star Trek books? 3 days ago:
And it’s only $1.99. Just bought it. Thanks!
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- Comment on When you get dragged into a conversation with the loud guy at a bar: 5 days ago:
Latest alt of a long term persistent troll who has nothing better to do with their life. Would be sad if they weren’t such an obnoxious POS.
Looks like they got lazy and setup a bot on an endless loop.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 5 days ago:
If I need that level of precision, I’ll use a digital clock or set an alarm.
I can usually tell within 1-2 minutes which is precise enough for 99.999% of cases. Most IRL scheduling has a lower bound of 5-minute increments, so looking at an analog clock for the exact minute isn’t really necessary.
- Comment on When you realize your laptop hasn't been plugged in for the last 4 hours you've been working... 1 week ago:
Despite posting a photo of the book, I haven’t read it for a good minute. You’re referring to the clinic scene? (I think that’s first in the book, but not 100%).
- Comment on When you realize your laptop hasn't been plugged in for the last 4 hours you've been working... 1 week ago:
Heh, that’s happened a lot since our org updated to Win11. Updates in the middle of the day (despite IT assuring us those only install after hours 🙄) and people just randomly drop from meetings as their PCs reboot.
Today (well, yesterday now), mine was just “Preparing to hibernate due to low battery” and I was like “wait, what?!” and was frantically making sure everything got saved (this old workhorse doesn’t always want to resume from hibernate). Turns out I had the cord plugged into the laptop but didn’t plug it into the outlet Facepalm
- Comment on When you realize your laptop hasn't been plugged in for the last 4 hours you've been working... 1 week ago:
Not really. There’s just a lot of characters in that scene (Muldoon, Hammond, Wu, Arnold, and Gennaro) all with dialog.
- Comment on When you realize your laptop hasn't been plugged in for the last 4 hours you've been working... 1 week ago:
Also they lazily copied …
In film school, that’s called an homage. /s
- Comment on When you realize your laptop hasn't been plugged in for the last 4 hours you've been working... 1 week ago:
I think Nedry’s death in the book is that for me. The movie version is practically G-rated compared to how it went down in the novel.
- Comment on When you realize your laptop hasn't been plugged in for the last 4 hours you've been working... 1 week ago:
This was the first Crichton novel I read, and it got me into his other works. Most of them have the common theme of:
- There’s a secret science place where science happens
- At event causes people not normally associated with the science place to have to go to the science place
- The science at the science place goes horribly wrong
- The science place blows up in the end
That formula doesn’t really detract from any of his books, but I did laugh when I had read enough of his catalog to see the pattern.
