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1·8 months agoThe board not making the success of their main product a metric shows that they wanna move away from it or the mindset of “Google will pay use anyways since they don’t wanna get in trouble for having a monopoly on browser engines” and rewarding her for the VPN which is just a whitelabled version of Mullvad with a worse client. Also keep in mind its a non-profit so rewarding her for making more money feels kinda weird
Additionally, USB-C debuted only two years later than lightning, so age is no excuse here.
but then please also compare 2014 USB-C to Lightning and not 2024 USB-C > youre also not comparing Mini-B (from 1998 with USB 1.1) to USB-A (from 2017 with USB 3.2) you have to stay in the same time period if you wanna make a fair comparison since I am talking about it connector itself.
just because “it feels better”?
yes, it fells better because it has way tighter tolerances > USB-C can be everything from the nicest feeling connector if you’re lucky and get the perfect cable+connector to the wabblyest mess that barely holds the cable if you’re unlucky. And it only gets worse over time because the connection of USB-C is purely based on friction (which wears out over time) and lightning uses friction + it “snaps into place” with its grooves on the sides. Another thing I’ve noticed (since I carry around both my private Android phone (with USB-C) and an iPhone for work) is that the lint build up on USB-C is way higher then on lightning and cleaning it is a bit more annoying because of its “weird” choice of design that both the connector and the cable are both male and female (obviously only a problem on phones or other devices you carry around with you)
Are you aware that lightning is a proprietary connector?
yes, but that doesn’t mean that I cant believe that its the superior connector (not used USB standard), to give you another example: I believe that Apples HomeKit is currently the best Smart Home standard for an average person (Matter is in theory better but it was more of a paper launch so we will see how many companies actually support it) simply because all devices are required to work without a server or internet connection and before anyone says anything, yes Home Assistant is also great but can require a lot of tinkering + some kind of server (like a raspberry pi) so I would more put it in a enthusiast grade tier and not average consumer.
So basically you would want every device to use a nonexistent updated lightning
actually no, the “one connector for everything” dream is great and I would love it to be true but we are at a point (and I don’t see it becoming any better in the future) where yes we have one connector for most things but the cables are such a hot mess where you have no idea if the cable can actually do what you want it to do because USB-C can be everything from USB 2.0 to USB4 v2.0 (without the need to comply with everything that is in the spec), Thunderbolt 4 or even a power only cable without any easy way to differentiate them.
Interesting, thank you for sharing that, it just showed me once again that i don’t know why people support Mozilla
I guess, but shouldn’t that at least be somewhat based on how successful they are? Her salary went from 3 million in 2020 to 7 million in 2022 while the market share of Firefox went from 4.7% to 3%, for me it looks more like she knows its a dying company and she just wants to squeeze out as much money as she can.
if it would have been updated
IF it would have been updated, i never said it would have been updated
Are you telling me that an 11 year old connector doesn’t hold up to midern standards? Obviously, i meant if it also would get updates, there are also USB-C cabels that are technically inferior to modern cables.
Oh god, obviously, if it would have been updated to modern speeds, i thought that’s obvious, but i guess people hate apple too much to think for half a second
Tbh I would have preferred lighting to become the universal standard. It feels better and makes more sense.
Edit since people can’t think: obviously, I mean, if it would be updated to modern speeds
How about you don’t increase the salary of the CEO and other top employees by millions each year and use that money instead to hire a couple of people to work on the engine
Idk if id be more worried about a Chinese anti cheat that doesnt run on critical infrastructure or about Windows, Android, iOS + keep in mind Riot is an american company owned by a chinese one so idk if they would actually side with china
I’d use tailscale or zerotier, super easy use
It’s impressive how few people get past the headline
I do think AI has a place and purpose, but it’s not going to cost people their jobs, only help them do it more efficiently. It’s great in assisting people but not replacing
Thats my whole point, people who utilize AI(I agree with you calling LLMs AI is dumb but thats how it is currently used and more people understand “AI” then “LLM”) will do the job more efficiently and therefor you’ll need less people to do the same job (which is why i used CAD as an example because doing the drawings by hand will take way longer) which results in people losing their job because they are no longer needed
same, also the quality of the comments is … not so great but then again the reddit comments also went to shit, I wonder where all the people went that posted quality comments