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by bloppe 4y ago
The regulation does not require devices to only support USB-C, just that they at least support USB-C for charging. They can always have multiple ports. If the 40Gbps offered by USB-C is really not enough for you, then your device is pro
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by bloppe 4y ago
To be totally fair, it's not like a phone manufacturer is going to put 2 different ports on their device, so this is essentially regulating data as well as power. But also to be fair, USB-C cables that support thunderbolt 3 are a coupl
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by bloppe 4y ago
> Innovation ... does not happen by committee. If you have to make such an argument... Good luck with that. This one in particular has many existing counterexamples, including USB-C itself.
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by bloppe 4y ago
A lot of people saying "USB-C cables aren't even compatible with each other!" (Nintendo switch etc.) Guess what: that's exactly the problem this regulation is intended to solve. Fake USB-C cables like Nintendo's tha
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by bloppe 4y ago
2FA is as strong as the strongest link, not the weakest. You need both factors, not either factor. In this case, it's just that one of the factors has a weak backup option.
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by bloppe 4y ago
Mozilla gets the majority of their revenue from Google paying them to keep their search engine as the default. I'm OK with this: the search engine is visible every time you use it, so it's impossible to "forget" to chang
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by bloppe 5y ago
This is going in the wrong direction. Government shouldn't be imposing regulations on monopolistic app stores when competition can naturally break the monopolies and bring them in line with developer and consumer needs. Let there be mu
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by bloppe 6y ago
I get it that the US federal government has been antagonizing the world on overdrive for the past ~4 years, but as an "insider" I really don't understand how you arrived at any of these conclusions. The very notion of "c