it seems like it , but I have no idea !

edit : to clarify , I believe it does , using the CC1 & CC2 pins which are also used for other things , but I don’t know anything about USB protocol side , I should learn about it haha

more expensive imo.

actually the same pins (well one of them , though since the connector is rotationally symmetric you need two anyway) are used for USB Power Delivery and to negotiate what speed regime to operate in .

furthermore , USB On the go , which was introduced in USB 2.0 , offers the same functionality for USB Micro and USB Mini

actually they would be correct :

USB began as a protocol where one side (USB-A) takes the leading role and the other (USB-B) the following role . this was mandated by hardware with differently shaped plugs and ports . this made sense for the time as USB was ment to connect computers to peripherals .

however some devices don’t fit this binary that well : one might want to connect their phone to their computer to pull data off it , but they also might want to connect a keyboard to it , with the small form factor not allowing for both a USB-A and USB-B port. the solution was USB On-The-Go : USB Mini-A/B/AB and USB Micro-A/B/AB connectors have an additional pin which allows both modes of operations

with USB-C , aside from adding more pins and making the connector rotationally symmetric , a very similar yet differently named feature was included , since USB-C - USB-C connections were planed for

so yeah USB-A to USB-A connections are explicitly not allowed , for a similar reason as you only see CEE 7 (fine , or the objectively worse NEMA) plugs on both ends of a cable only in joke made cables . USB-C has additional hardware to support both sides using USB-C which USB-A , neither in the original or 3.0 revision , has .

yeah thats the point , the cybertruck design is retrofuturism

I misread this as if it lacked the y and was slightly confused for a second

to be fair , neither the free software movement nor the open source movement (which are distinct ideologically) are explicitly socialist . in a way , especially the free software movement , they embody an extention of liberalism .

both of these movements focus on the individuals freedom and take issue not with developers/companies being systemically incentivized to develop closed source / nonfree software , but with individual developers/companies doing so . thus the solution taken is limited to the individual not to systemic change .

most of the video was centred on the player

it wasn’t ?? haha , the movement in the beginning is there because I didn’t bother trimming the movement of the camera :P

pretty sure I have actually used it lol

And set the date format to YYYY.MM.DD for the entire world. Americans and Europeans can stop arguing.

this made me uncontrollably angry , its YYYY-MM-DD not YYYY.MM.DD

to be fair I can’t imagine Gabe being that fond of piracy … checks ah never mind mind

One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue. The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.

- Gabe Newell , as quoted by gamesradar

BTW the quote is under this amazing image , which I very much hope was not placed there recently :

I believe it was a app , yes

I’ve seen a calculator interpret 1 ÷ 2π as ½π which was kinda funny

wdym, they weren’t even able to eat their children, because the red army were going door to door, confiscating every families children, so that they could make a child banquet for Stalin (/s, I hope obviously)

Its not that the atomic bombs did not have an impact, but as many allied army official thought at the time, the Soviet invasion of Manchuria was more impactful. Some quotes for you:

the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing.

- Eisenhower

The vast destruction wreaked by the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the loss of 135,000 people made little impact on the Japanese military. However, the Soviet invasion of Manchuria … changed their minds.

- the National Museum of the U.S. Navy in Washington, D.C.

If at any time the USSR should enter the war, all Japanese will realize that absolute defeat is inevitable.

- the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s Joint Intelligence Staff

This is not me pulling shit out of my ass - its an opinion US military officials held at the time.

the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing.

- Eisenhower

The vast destruction wreaked by the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the loss of 135,000 people made little impact on the Japanese military. However, the Soviet invasion of Manchuria … changed their minds.

- the National Museum of the U.S. Navy in Washington, D.C.

If at any time the USSR should enter the war, all Japanese will realize that absolute defeat is inevitable.

- the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s Joint Intelligence Staff

Cry about it

• the largest genocide was not the Holocaust, but the genocide of Indian tribes
• American companies assisted in the III Reich war effort and profited of German Concentration/Death camps
• the USA does not follow the rules of the WTO, an organization it itself started, promoted and forced onto the world
• the USA is behind countless coups and military overthrows of governments, yet they are the one to preach democracy

just a few more of the top of my head 🙃

Fuck fascism. Also reminder that it was the declaration of war by the USSR, not the atomic bombs which made the Japanese surrender.

Newsflash: the inside is lesbian. >:)