Sure, but then I’m still using discord’s servers. And it’s very unlikely I’d be convincing anyone until Discord screws up bad on something that affects them

No, it’s not because life without Instagram is sad. Read the other reply for a real reason. People stay on platforms to keep in touch with others and those others do the same.

It’s only “generational” because half the world didn’t grow up with the Internet as their primary form of communication. But I’m against that label because it’s true for anyone who uses a service a lot.

I would LOVE to stop using Discord but there’s no way I’m convincing all my friends to run two chat programs (Matrix for me, Discord for their other friends)

From what I can tell, there’s a bunch of similar components all the way up, so I’d think there’s redundancy, so I guess it’s not that important.

This is definitely not a good way of thinking about electronics. Your motherboard might be fine but assuming identical components are for redundancy is a mistake!

If it’s stationary, the temperature doesn’t matter. Well…it probably does at SOME temperature but the issue I’m referring to is flexing the cable when it’s brittle.

I moved to the pre-install engineering side of things so I don’t have to run it anymore but it was a dream to work with over CAT6A

They have cables with harder jackets for racks that I’m sure is what most people are thinking of with the bend radius but yeah…bulk fiber is incredible. The big caveat is temperature… don’t pull fiber when it’s freezing out.

Probably anywhere in the US with an Italian-American population. It’s big in Chicago

It definitely depends on the application but my instructor showed it to us in training and I replicated it for a tech who wasn’t there later

There’s also two minimums, one for how much it can bend before the fiber breaks and one (much larger) radius for peak operation. A knot causes optical loss but it still works

It was one of the go-to easy meals in my household growing up and everyone likes a different amount added. My sister won’t add any, I like a scoop or two, my dad is pretty generous with it, and my mom dunks.

So, no wrong way to enjoy it. In my opinion, the bread absorbs what’s on the meat and it gets kinda dry pretty fast if you don’t add any.

They’re right about the bread, it holds its shape very well when saturated. It will turn to mush if you let it sit there but if you’re eating it fresh, it makes each bite a lot more flavorful without sacrificing texture. It’s like…a really tasty sponge.

Instead, they’re trying to force everything to USB with DP Alt mode which has a ton of the same annoyances…but at least USB C is flippable I guess.

HDMI 2.1 cables have 19 wires and USB 3.2 has 13 or 14 (can’t remember) so they’re really finicky and fragile. Fiber has 1 or 2 and is VERY rugged in comparison…you can literally tie a knot in a fiber cable and it’ll still work.

Plus with fiber, if your AVR blows up, it can’t take the other equipment out with it since it’s electrically isolated.

Fiber is also cheap cheap cheap!

Fiber is thin and easy to route.

Fiber can ALSO be shortened, extended, etc. in the field.

The only downside is the cost of the splicing tools (and the cleanliness required)

And I guess SFP connectors are pretty gnarly. But if it was aimed at consumers, they could slap a nice rubberized coat on it…

Man, I love fiber.

So don’t watch it. Problem solved lol

If you think he made it long because that “equals good content” you are either unfamiliar with Rossmann, not the target audience, or simply delusional

My company orders a thousand TVs a month and we’ve dropped Samsung all together unless a client specifically requests it. I hated them when I was an installer (terrible to mount and configure, especially the Frame TVs) and now I hate them on the pre-sales side of things.

We looked into LG but they’re kind of a pain to get quotes from.

We default to Sony now.

They had totally different goals? And neither were left

I didn’t think anyone would have considered that asshole behavior. Annoying, maybe, but that doesn’t come across as mean.

I think a better example would be something like a coworker saying “You said you’d send me that information yesterday” which can be interpreted as “hey can you send me that information you mentioned?” OR “hey fucko, you lied to me”

Fair enough! Thanks for elaborating.

There’s a joke in there about the power of hot air but I’m not confident enough in my knowledge of British politics to make it

[edit] don’t upvote me, read their reply. They clarified their argument and I was wrong

I feel like you agree with the person you’re replying to but don’t see it.

You hate when people/media describes it as a winnable scenario. They are saying that the chart misrepresenting energy gives people the impression that the “fight” is almost “won” and the government has it covered - no need to keep it part of the conversation.

Oh whoops I misread

I was gonna say the screen is too small to be worth 4k but then I remembered my friend’s son playing his Switch with his face against the screen lol

I own this book so I definitely feel you

Well that doesn’t solve their problem at all