tallest skil

StrangeDays said:

I don’t know of any consumer printers that had special cables designed to force people to buy them.

I’m mostly whining about USB-B and its use on printers, scanners, etc. When A to A cables would have been perfectly fine (and exist; I mean, I have an old external hard drive enclosure that uses A to A), they went and created an entirely different, physically incompatible port for their “universal” bus. And I understand the desire for a smaller port, but did we really have to have mini-A, mini-B, mini-A-B, micro-A, micro-B, micro-A-B... And then the simple speed boost to 3.0 required both the B and micro-B (fortunately the only small one that was still in popular use) to get entirely new shapes again, with bumps jutting out of them.

After all that, USB-C being not only small enough to replace all of that mess, but also orientation agnostic AND physically the same port as Thunderbolt 3 feels like a trick. Like they’re going to throw an arbitrary D at us for peripherals.

StrangeDays said:

Sure you do. What makes you say the many ports in Apple products, including standard ports like USB-C, aren’t useful?

What’s the plan for USB-C? Will they create an entirely pointless USB-D to put on printers and peripherals for no other reason than to force people to buy special cables, or is USB-C finally going to create a same port standard on both ends of the system?

Any port shape transition is going to take time, and we’ll see whiners for the entire process.

spacekid said:

Thank goodness for net neutrality saving the day! Oh, wait. Never mind.

Learn what net neutrality is before shilling in favor of censorship.

farmboy said:

But, oddly, Skil keeps posting overtly political comments without your reaction. Thousands of posts earns a bye?

Not in this thread. 

dysamoria said:

Are you making these communism references in the context of the USA?

Uh... yeah.

 If so, explain, because the USA isn't a communist nation, nor is it socialist.

Read the communist manifesto, compare its stated goals to the changes to the US in the last 100 years, realize what I’m talking about. This isn’t the thread for it.