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That isn't true at all, the buzz about ToTK has been endless.

But if there's any reason, it's because it isn't as "new" as BotW was.

Senate is indeed rougher.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

yeah that doesn't do shit to printers these days my homiedog

Considering I just set up a whole office using this method primarily, I'm inclined to disagree.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

microsoft is also planning to just flat out remove it, as well lmao

Well, that's just plane damn annoying. But at least with Mopria, it'll cover a huge swath of printers made. Annoying, it doesn't have Kyocera, the ones I primarily deal with, but I'd imagine they would have to get on board. But hey, at least the USBA dongle still works.

I just got a Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio at work and it only has 2 USB-C ports, a headphone jack, and Microsoft's proprietary Surface Connect port. If you want Ethernet or USB-A, you need a dock. You want to connect a monitor? Too bad, even the dock doesn't have any video ports, you have to buy a USB-C adapter.

Yeah, that's hella annoying, which I'm also going to blame Apple for: they proved that certain consumers will shell out for less.

That said, the Surface isn't quite a laptop per se, and that models is a highly specific one as-is. This won't appear widely in normal laptops for years and years yet.

refmon posted...

Is this an actual thing catching on with the youths?

This. Just seem to suggest they think nudity is immoral or icky, they just don't care for it as much. They want stuff about friendship more, at least according to this article.

Hey, time to bring the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime back.

BoomerKuwanger posted...

This is of no benefit for things like mice or keyboards, of which there are probably hundreds of millions of functioning USB A devices out there, and are still widely sold with USB A.

This. Data speeds only really matter for stuff like flashdrives, and even then, that speed is going to be useless for 90% of the people using them for simple file copying. Not that USBC for drives shouldn't become the norms, but not at the expense of killing USBA.

The MacBook design also took out ports that weren't traditionally USB, like Ethernet and monitor ports.

Christ, this. Dropping HDMI (you know, the current standard) is utterly baffling, and then having no ports at all is just hilarious. Again, $3000 for laptops that have less functionality than 20 years ago. The Apple cult may rival Trump's.

SinisterSlay posted...

To the point that all my windows desktops still can't figure out my printer. My Mac, click add printer, it finds it wirelessly and works. Android? Same, finds it wirelessly and works. My nix laptop? Wirelessly and works. Only windows can't figure out printers.

The biggest problem is, Windows can search through a MASSIVE driver data base with a click of a button to find your driver, should you not have it. Mac lacks this ability. The other big problem I have when it comes to industrial photocopiers (like the Kyoceras), is Mac's default to IPP. If you don't switch to JetDirect Socket, it simply doesn't interact to the copier, and approximately 0 Mac users are aware of this. Which results me having to delete the printer (since you simply can't edit the properties like a PC), re-add it, and select the correct protocol. It's just astounding how poorly they work with anything but Mac products...which is by design.

The MacBook design also took out ports that weren't traditionally USB, like Ethernet and monitor ports.

Hell, My 13 year-old gaming computer (that I had turned into a work computer 3 years ago) died for good, so I bought some basic Lenovo desktop to replace it for like $550. It STILL has a VGA hookup in addition to just 1 HDMI.

Shrek posted...

lol not printer drivers it sure as fuck doesnt

"Add Printer Driver Wizard" my guy. Virtually any driver that exists can be gained this way,

BoomerKuwanger posted...

I was talking about their laptops using only USB C, meaning you had to either buy dongles or new cables/peripherals if you didn't already have them.

Oh, right. Getting rid of USBA was just silly and stupid - far too many devices simply use USBA, and forcing people to buy those peripherals just to be able to use simple, current devices is ass.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I remember when the breakdown used to be that PCs were best for business and gaming while Macs were better for graphic design and desktop publishing.

Then PCs got much better at graphic design and desktop publishing while Apple mostly just stayed the same and got better at marketing to hipsters.

Pretty much. There's virtually no reason to have one, since anything "high end" needed for work, art, etc. is going to be a 3rd party program that you'll have to buy for either OS, anyways. So it's basically x2-x3 the cost to have less functionality and compatibility. If not for their hipster marketing, Macs as computers would have been dead. They nearly were.

This wouldn't have been a problem if Jobs/Apple don't insist on everything about their products being "different", just because (or because they can charge people more for their brand-specific devices and attachments). So now we are stuck in a world where over 90% of the world's computers us Windows, and trying to adapt the shitty Mac OS and design to comply with this reality.

Metalsonic66 posted...

Why would color not be an option by default

Likely due to missing drivers. It could also be due to opening with Preview, and Not Adobe...which brings me to the point that no ones uses Apple based apps. Adobe, Google Maps, MS Office, Google Sheets/Doc...everything that is inherently useful that everyone knows how to use is non-Apple. And the Apple versions of Office are by design inferior.

BoomerKuwanger posted...

The USB C thing is definitely the kind of shit Apple loves to do that I can't get behind. Then they have the audacity to market it to consumers like they know what's best for us, as if having the laptop be a half centimeter thinner is a good tradeoff for buying their overpriced dongles.

Thankfully, the EU forced them to drop their lightning bolt cord nonsense and adopt USBC, so at least some form of standardization can be doable.

Dikitain posted...

Edit: And it is always funny how the people who insist beyond all reason they need a Mac for work are the ones that have to spend over half of their work hours trying to figure out how to do the stuff that everyone takes for granted on a Windows machine.

In my experience, they don't figure it out - I have to figure it out for them. And I'm not even in IT (my line of work doesn't have IT departments). They literally couldn't do their jobs if someone like me wasn't here to assist.

I asked our normal printer vendor once, when we were using my PC to do a ping test via the command prompt, to locate the correct open port, how this would be done on a Mac.
"It wouldn't" was his simple response.

Oh the good side, maybe we can work to not shut down the government. On the bad, it might happen anyways, and it was nice to not have the GQP damage America for a while, and instead damage themselves.

New Employee: Can you tell me why I can't print in color?
Me: *looks for 5 minutes on where the color box options should be in her print dialogue for her Mac laptop* Not sure why, the color box to check is missing
Regular employee: She probably needs the printer driver
Me: *sigh* Windows autodetects and downloads drivers, but OK. The vendor left a flashdrive with the drivers on it.
New employee: I don't have a USB port, only USB C.
Me: God fucking dammit.

These machines are incompatible with most work settings. Stop using these damn things. They cost $3000 to have less features and connectivity compared to machines made 20 years ago.

/end work place rant.

Starks posted...

Conservative tears

https://twitter.com/JoeyMannarinoUS/status/1716997272083247288

Except ignore the "start over" part. Just throw them out.

It's actually hilarious that they think they will nominate and agree at this point.

CableZL posted...

https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1716857891691589889

10

/

10

That's a wrap, folks. I don't think this one can be beat.

Fatality.

This is who these people are.

WalkingPlague posted...

project L cant drop soon enough

lol, are anyone but LoL players excited for this? It isn't remotely close to Smash, though, it plays more like MvC. So expecting it to bleed players from Smash is silly.

I've lost track of whatever the fuck is going on to get a new speaker. Which I suppose tracks, considering the hilarious chaos.

TomClark posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/5/2/AAABqgAAE-B8.jpg

So, was it simply for the money that she morphed so drastically?

JuanCarlos1 posted...

I dont doubt their intentions, but it looks like to me that some of those actors just want to be on the record.

Yep.

I imagine this would only apply to stuff like Evo or w/e. No way your local 20 man tournament is gonna care or follow this.

Do...they think Biden controls Hamas? Not that them writing this letter would move the needles at all, anyways.

Trump is literally beyond parody.

Christ, the responses in this topic are sad.

Also, grabbing a random person off of the street and making them President would quite literally a better option than Trump.

Sweet christ.

VeggetaX posted...

For example, during the Monster Hunter PSP days, the community was very against using Flash Bombs and traps because it made the game a little easier.

I never heard of this, but then, "purists" are a weird group. Especially in this case, since the flashbomb and traps are an integral part of the game - the game teaches you what they are and WANTS you to use them. It also thematically makes sense, because you are a...hunter, who would logically employ traps and devices.

Zikten posted...

Yes. It's been confirmed that kids have died in Palestine

So long as they weren't directly targeted, then it's a false equivalency. All wars have kids dies. It shouldn't happen, but it does. That's pretty different than *deliberately* targeting children for murder.

There's plenty legit critism of Israel without having to play this game, here.

Zikten posted...

What Hamas did was horrific. But that doesn't give justification for Israel to commit their own horrors on kids in Gaza. Israel wants to be seen as the good guys. They should be not killing children then

Have they? Aside from collateral damage from rockets, which is virtually unavoidable short of drine strikes (and even then...).

Organic always made way more sense.

"You got all the power except for the one spiders are most known for!" was always weird.

Oh, since few likely know what I mean about that Rammstein song:

Come with me, come into my castle
Fun waits for us in the basement there
Gentle, gentle, we want to be
Liberate the moment from time
Yeah, paradise lies under the house
The door falls closed, the light goes out

Are you ready?
Are you good to go?
Welcometo the darkness!
To the darkness!

No one can disturb us down here
No one, no one must hear us
No one will discover us
We enjoy life
And (because) you are alone sometimes
I plant you a little sister
The skin so young, the flesh so tight
Under the house, a love nest

Are you ready?
Are you good to go?
Welcometo the darkness!
To the darkness!

To the loneliness
To the sadness
For eternity
Welcome to reality

And when you walk through a deep valley
Are you ready?
And if your life (existence) was without light
Are you good to go?
Fear no misfortune, fear no torment
Prepare yourself
I am with you and I hold you
I hold you in the darkness!
In the darkness!

It's way creepier listening than reading (and in German)

No, and my account is almost 20 years old.

Wait...holy shit, it is. I've been on this damn site for 20 years.

Boneless are more nuggets than wings.

Bone-in also add more flavor and juiciness, be it steaks, wings, or what have you.

"Wiener Blut" by Rammstein is super dark, a 1st person POV of basically Josepf Fritzl. "Halloman" by them is kinda similar.

Why is there a poll, which is an opinion, on something that will/has a factual answer?

Or are you trying to set a bell weather to see which side of the spectrum posters fall on?

And where is Clay to blindly attack Israel more?

I'm officially old that I don't even know who these people are, or why I should care.

StealThisSheen posted...

Honestly, that argument was so bizarre I just wanna ignore it and move back to Clay's post implying there's something fishy about Belichick getting pressure to be fired over Tomlin. I'd really love to hear the rationale for that.

Clay hates the Steelers and loves trolling them, almost as much as he loves carrying water for Hamas.

Hayame_Zero posted...

There's not much point since they already have Oliver and (unfortunately) Maher.

Comedy central had Colbert and Stewart back to back, no problem. So why not? All 3 shows are different enough.

lol Apple is so in the pocket of China.

mystic_belmont posted...

Going after kids?

WTF.

Very on-brand for the GOP, honestly.

K181 posted...

Safe R districts are filled with wannabe congresscritters. There'd be no problem finding a far right alternative in basically any safe GOP district that'd get easy Fox News boosts.

That said, close to toss-up districts means GOP voters would likely stay home on election day, allowing the Dem challenger to win, knowing the GOP candidate is a "sell out." It would feel like safe R districts would have less to risk. Anyone in a competitive district would get primaried AND be signing their own death warrant.

Jen0125 posted...

I'm a bitch
I'm a boss

That would imply you have free-reign on spending discretion of such card, which you do not.

shadowsword87 posted...

Yeah I don't want current bethesda making ES6.

As opposed to previous Bethesda, with the same piss-poor quality control?

Man, Skyrim was overrated.

Tyranthraxus posted...

No those are the worst because they'll get primaried. You want moderate districts with a lot of centrists who think Republicans working with Democrats is a good thing.

That was my initial thought, but the current chaos of the GOP and RCN suggests they couldn't cobble together primary challenges.

Why would anyone stay? I used the FAQs a lot in the 00's and '10s...But I can't tell you the last time I did. Tips, tricks, and secrets are covered extensively by major publications, and more importantly, plethora of video walkthroughs and timestamps exist everywhere. The FAQS part of this site are simply antiquated.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Doesn't need to be Faustian. Just promise 5 gop the chair of 5 committees of their choice in exchange for voting Jeffries. At least 5 of them must know that this clown show has already cost them their career so they may as well get an opportunity to get some money & corporate favors on their way out.

It'd have to be 5 with safe R districts, I imagine, so they can suffer any backlash from "working with the Dems."

Kai_Laguna posted...

You are really underestimating the republican voter's ability to perform mental gymnastics

Good news is, polls already show the people clearly are blaming the GOP for this, as they should. The bad news is, this is happening in October 2023, not October 2024. The GOP never seems to suffer real punishment of r this bullshit, or shutting down the government, because of goldfish voter memories (and a healthy dose of gerrymandering).

mybbqrules posted...

They have no leverage though.

They shit the bed.

They look like morons.

Dems are under no pressure to assist them in wiping up their whoopsies in any way.

Oh, I agree. I meant that, the Dems could broker a deal to make Jefferies speaker, which means giving up something in return. Since normal motivators like "running the government" doesn't logically stimulate the toxic Republican fucks in Congress.

The thing about propaganda is, it works because the people don't realize they are ingesting propaganda.

Or to put it another way, if their viewers were capable of detecting lies and obvious bullshit, they wouldn't be watching Fox to begin with. Admitting you are a regular Fox viewer is tantamount to admitting to low intelligence/IQ.

UnrivaledKoopa posted...

Right now it sounds like they're content to let Jordan lose, and then try to bully dissenters into accepting him with the ticking clock fo a government shutdown/Israel funding bills looming.

That bully tactic already massively backfired.

Wish 5 GOP would step forward and make a deal with the Dems. Could be Faustian, though...their terms would likely be steep.

UnrivaledKoopa posted...

2 more weeks of failed votes

But for who? Re-enter Jordan?

This is beyond a clown show. Just give it to Jeffries.

Quorthon109 posted...

I have MSN on right now and they say the plan to empower McHenry is dead

Soooo...what's next?

Gross that she evades any real prison, but worth if it seals Trump.

Zikten posted...

He is just parroting what Netanyahu told him. He doesn't actually have proof of who did it

And you base this on...?

Current available information shows the missile came from with in Gaza.

And to think we just had a 500 topic with lots of people mouthing off with false information.

It really is. It's nearly perfect. Same with Doom Eternal. Once you unlock the perks and double dash, you feel like a God of a battlefield.

LaManoNeraII posted...

Its barbaric to use civilians as a shield for your ethnic cleansing and terrorism. Its equally barbaric to defend those actions as well, which is what youre doing.

You apparently want peace, but Hamas doesnt. Whats your solution?

It's not a zero sum game - both sides can be barbaric. And indeed, both sides have been, are, and will be in the future. And expecting a statement of care and compassion from the entity that is about to invade and bomb you is transparent virtue signaling. Israel can be disliked without resorting to lame "gotcha" attempts.

But Clay pearl clutching over Israel saying they are going to bomb the region is weird, considering...that is exactly what they are doing, and will continue to do.

The point is, there's one right answer to this conflict, and it isn't murdering innocent civilians forced to travel hours from their home on foot, while getting bombed by a fascist regime.

You just described exactly what Hamas did (except we'd have to add rape and kidnapping, too), and they started this whole new round of violence. They can end it, too.