It’s a travesty! I just went through this barbed wire circus! Swore to all my friends that Anker branded cables are “the way”. Sank a good amount of my money into that brand. Only to find that while yes, they excel in power delivery, many times when it comes to Data Transfer Rates, these new Anker cables are maxing out at 480Mbps. That’s USB ver. 2.0 speed. In a 2025 USB-C form factor. Other brands are pushing 40Gbps and Anker is just like the brandname (in Dutch): an anchor. I’m so peeved at the fact these manufacturers don’t do like the IEEE did regarding Ethernet cables: printed every X distance is the standard, right on the jacketing. You can’t tell me these USB cable manufacturers can’t follow suit. It’s USB! Need we all buy USB-IF compliant consumables? Is this really where we are this late into USB ver 3.X now going into USB ver. 4 ?!

I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’ Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot - I don’t want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. You’ve got to say, ‘I’m a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!’ So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, ‘I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!’ I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!.. You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: “I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!”

Laser printers don’t use ink. They use a dry powder called toner. Check here for more info:

https://www.ldproducts.com/blog/whats-the-difference-between-a-toner-cartridge-and-a-drum-unit/

Good on you for making the switch. I used to work at Staples around 2006 while in high school, so I saw the insanity unfolding regarding ink costs. Back then Staples even sold a DIY ink refill kit. Then inkjet printer companies started using DRM Chips that would scan for competitor inks, and would lock-out the printer if you weren’t using Genuine OEM inks. We should’ve nipped this in the bud back then. Also, that new inkjet printer mentioned in the article has only like half-filled ink cartridges. We called them a “starter set”. Same applies for new laser printers. About half-filled toner cartridges. “Starter set”.

gestures to stamppot, snert, and pannekoeken uh… What flavor?

About tree fiddy. nods

This story is golden.

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NoFx - “Vanilla Sex” hits hard after all these years

Charge at it while riding a rhino.

Back pre-2006, before Google bought YouTube, there were no ads. That’s right, No Ads on Youtube. Then 2007 came and Google started doing us dirty. I pine for ad-free YT again. I have the issue using Invidious on PC that won’t load age-restricted content (no workaround still), and NewPipe on Android occassionally wants me to sign-in to confirm I’m not a bot.

Thanks friend. I only knew of the JEDEC terms, TIL.

This is the first time I’ve ever seen it misspelled like that. It’s ‘terabyte/terabytes’. 1,024 GBs worth of data.

lol wut? Those be NAWT the words ascribed. Belay your last.

I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds over the missing ‘t’ in teleportation.

What’s sad, is that Ukraine did have nukes. Then this happened in '94: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum Guess who is now a bully.

Meanwhile in The Netherlands… there is no Big Bird. Instead, we have Pino (pronounced in English like “pee-no”). Sesamstraat Pino:

I LOL’d. Thanks

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Thanks so much for all of this!