S410

@S410@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please Stop⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, why would banks replace the system which allows them to charge fees for every other interaction with their services? A blockain solution would allow multiple different banks (and, possibly, even regular people) to access the data with no middlemen, and, therefore, no fees. Or, well, no fees that directly end up in the bank's pockets as profit, that is.

  Getting rid of that is bad for business. So, unless something magical happens and the EU, for example, pass a law requiring the banks to switch to a more de-centralized, more fair system, it's not going to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please Stop⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can lose access to regular accounts as easily as to a blockchain. In fact, losing database of your password manager is even worse, because even if you have backups, they're not going to be complete.

  With a blockchain all you have to worry is your private key. And you can write it down on a piece of paper, if you want, and put it away in a safe or a bank vault or something. Then, if you use it to restore your access years later, nothing will be lost.

  "There are 2 types of people in the world: those who make backups, and those who don't make backups yet."

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube comment deletion is out of control, can't say anything anymore even when completely sensible. Is there a text format (alternate characters) that allows you to bypass detection?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Human's for you, what can I say.

  We all are guilty of similar behavior. You, I, your neighbor- Everyone.
  It's often hard to believe something, when your own experience is vastly different from what someone describes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube comment deletion is out of control, can't say anything anymore even when completely sensible. Is there a text format (alternate characters) that allows you to bypass detection?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I've noticed Youtube nuking my comments if they contain words related to money, if they contain too many brands, if they contain technical term, etc.

  Comments that don't have much in terms of meaning or information go through just fine.

  So... Just, write like you're 5 years old and split long messages into several comments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so sick of dinky shitty devices with garbage rechargeable batteries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Even looking at power delivery alone, there's still different voltages and wattage, as well as cable specs. Nothing really changes. You still end up having different cables for different devices, essentially.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so sick of dinky shitty devices with garbage rechargeable batteries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  USB-C is an interface that can be used for a variety of different things. There are different "levels" of power delivery, there's thunderbolt, there's DisplayPort-over-USB-C, etc. And for things to work, the devices on both ends of the cable and the cable itself must comply with any given standard.

  For example, on some laptops you can't use a USB-C port with thunderbolt for charging the device, nor the port that supports power delivery to connect thunderbolt devices. While using the same physical interface, the ports are not interchangeable. Even if you're connecting everything right, nothing is going to work if the cable you're using isn't specced properly (and trying to figure out the spec of a cable you have, considering they rarely have any labeling, is, definitely, fun).

  If anything, USB-C makes everything harder and more convoluted, because instead of using different ports and plugs for different standards, it's now one port for nigh everything under the sun. If you want things to work, nowadays, you have to hunt down cable and port specs to ensure everything is mutually compatible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so sick of dinky shitty devices with garbage rechargeable batteries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  USB-C makes things kinda worse, in a way.

  In the past you could slap together an adapter by chopping up some old cable and slapping it to a new power supply. And things would work, even if voltage or power ratings didn't match exactly, or even at all (although, things would usually work much worse then).

  I've jury rigged an adapter for my laptop, which uses a 65w, 20v power brick, to run off a 45w, 16v one, when mine died and I needed to access the files. It worked, as long as I wasn't using doing anything too computationally intensive on the thing.

  If the laptops used USB-C, that is very likely would not have worked at all. Chances are, the manufacturer of the smaller laptop would've bundled the cheapest power brick that covers the needs of the machine, so it would've most likely been 45w, 15v over power delivery. And mine would've been 65w, 20v over power delivery. And since everything in USB-C world has to talk to each other and agree beforehand, chances are, nothing would even try to work, even if it, realistically, can.