nicholfd

waveparticle said:

nicholfd said:

MplsP said:

nicholfd said:

killroy said:

nicholfd said:

killroy said:

Using a OWC Thunderbolt 3 dock and all is well.

And this article is about USB-C hubs & docks, not Thunderbolt.

It's also USB-C with Thunderbolt.

All current OWC Thunderbolt docks required a Thunderbolt connection to the computer.  They will not work with just a USB-C connection to the computer.  This article is about USB-C docs/hubs, that connect via the USB protocol to the computer.

Thunderbolt 3 is USB C. your comment makes no sense

Thunderbolt 3 is not USB-C. You need to educate yourself before replying.  

Thunderbolt 3 uses the USB-C physical connector.  However, a USB-C physical connector can be USB-C only, and not be Thunderbolt 3. 

My comment makes perfect sense to someone who knows what they are talking about.

If USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 cannot work together, why make the physical connector identical? Error is prone to happen. The engineers don't know this basic common sense? 

MplsP said:

nicholfd said:

killroy said:

nicholfd said:

killroy said:

Using a OWC Thunderbolt 3 dock and all is well.

And this article is about USB-C hubs & docks, not Thunderbolt.

It's also USB-C with Thunderbolt.

All current OWC Thunderbolt docks required a Thunderbolt connection to the computer.  They will not work with just a USB-C connection to the computer.  This article is about USB-C docs/hubs, that connect via the USB protocol to the computer.

Thunderbolt 3 is USB C. your comment makes no sense

docno42 said:

nicholfd said:

W(here)TF did you get that idea?  I never made any statements about what is real & what is fake, or wanting to be the "source of truth".  I have no desire to be involved with the general public or control anything or anyone.  Maybe you need to take your tinfoil hat off (based on your reply to my simple comment).

Just look at what's happened in the US alone, in the past few years.  Science, facts & common sense don't seem to apply anymore, to a lot of people. 

Well you are seeming to advocate (yet again!) that people are too stupid to think for themselves - you typed out "Science, facts & common sense don't seem to apply anymore, to a lot of people."  Those are your words - thoughts that you have repeated **twice** now.  

So if you aren't going to be the arbiter of science, facts or common sense for those of us too dumb to figure it out on their own, then who is?  

Me personally, figure it out for yourself.  I don't need anyone else telling me what is science, what is factual or what common sense is.  Someone can argue their position, but anyone who declares they are the truth and the way is going to get nothing but scorn and skepticism from me.  Will I alway get it right?  Nope - thinking that anyone is always going to get it right is a pretty dumb and unrealistic standard anyway so I don't know why people like you spend so much time going on about it.  

Do I think the yahoos running any of the media or social media companies are going to be any better at discerning science, fact or common sense?  Hell no!  Just look at the idiots they rely on to "fact check" - it's laughable.  

Here's a wild thought.  Stop obsessing about all those science, facts and common sense everyone else gets wrong - worry about your own understanding of things.  And if you think someone else got it wrong, work on your ability to persuade them to maybe see things like you do.  And if they still don't then maybe you don't have as firm a grasp on the facts as you think you do - or maybe they just like being ignorant.  I sure as hell know the answer isn't some quasi all knowing cabal dictating what the approved thought of the day is.  If you like that totalitarian shit just move to China already.  Maybe you too will get a cushy paid job to gaslight in the forums like some of our fellow posters apparently are. 

Our system may be messy, but at least it's the good kind of mess.  I'll take a free mess over tyrannic oder all day every day.

docno42 said:

nicholfd said:
Just NO!

No one is forced to use any company's social media platform.  They own it.  It's their rules.  Don't like it, don't use it, and the whole world would be a better place.

If they were to give up their section 230 protections then I would be right there with you.   However if they are going to get protection they shouldn't be able to act like a publisher and not face the consequences.  

If they want the protections then they should have to at least offer a level playing ground, and they should be forced to do it in public.  Otherwise no section 230 and they should be able to be sued just like any other site. 

docno42 said:

GeorgeBMac said:
While the Free Press is the foundation that democracy stands on, it is being used by unscrupulous characters to dismantle the democracy that both depends on it and supports it.

Free press - ha!  When is the last time anyone in the mainstream media has talked about Sweden in regards to COVID?   Oh no, we can't bring them up because it blows the current fear generated narrative out of the water.

Look at the recent Kyle Rittenhouse trial.  Kyle is white, shot white aggressors and isn't even a conservative let alone a "proud boy" (if there ever was a dog whistle/straw man any time some idiot in politics or the media brings up the proud boys watch out).   Yet you had multiple reports that got all of that and the above wrong - and are continuing to get it wrong even post trial when there are now legal rulings on much of this crap.  I hope Kyle becomes VERY rich off of all the assholes who distorted his story for their own political gain.  

You know what the greatest foundation of democracy is?  Freedom - period. Full stop.  Not freedom for some protected classes - but universal freedom.  And chief of all - freedom from those who think they have the only version of "truth" that should be heard.  

America became successful because it was the closest thing to a universally level playing field the world has ever seen.  It never ceases to amaze me how many are fervently working to reverse that - and the biggest group of liars are the "diversity is our strength" crowd.  It's Jim Crowe all over, but wrapped in fancy terms like systemic racism and pseudo intellectualism like the 1619 project.   Saving us from racism via noble bigotry.    Ideas so stupid that only the overly educated could mistake them for sophistication.