Faith: A kid. Angel's got a kid. Wesley: Connor. Faith: A teenage kid born last year. Wesley: I told you, he grew up in a hell dimension. Faith: Right. And what, Cordelia spent her last summer as… Wesley: A divine being. Faith: Uh-huh. Can I just ask--What the hell are you people doing?

'Why We Fight'


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Tom Scola - Oct 28, 2016 11:18:54 am PDT #24902 of 25505
hwæt

Well, they're both Thunderbolt ports AND USB ports (it's a dessert topping, and a floor wax!), but you still need all kinds of cables and dongles to get it to all work with your old USB peripherals.

I'm gonna stick to my present set-up for a couple more years, at least until the USB 3.1 infrastructure is built out a little more.


meara - Oct 28, 2016 11:20:59 am PDT #24903 of 25505

Well yeah--the Thunderbolt/USB-C ports are only useful to me if I can stick my current USB things in there. Which my understanding is, I can't. But like I said, four years from now, will I only be able to find USB-C stuff, and not have any of those ports?


Tom Scola - Oct 28, 2016 11:25:29 am PDT #24904 of 25505
hwæt

Which my understanding is, I can't.

You would need one of these: [link]


Tom Scola - Oct 28, 2016 1:28:32 pm PDT #24905 of 25505
hwæt

Six pairs of earphones in the past 15 months. Sigh.

Seven pairs of earphones in the past 17 months. Cheap Radio Shack phones this time. I just can't be bothered to take my damn iPhone out of my pocket every fucking time I sit down.


Jesse - Oct 28, 2016 5:16:14 pm PDT #24906 of 25505
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Did you get the Radio Shack warranty? It would be especially worth it for you, apparently.


beekaytee - Oct 28, 2016 6:38:03 pm PDT #24907 of 25505
Compassionately intolerant

I need to, for reasons, permanently block a game url from my system. Like, forever. All browsers.

google tells me to use terminal, which scares me a lot.

I've been using Self Control, but it is not permanent enough.

Any suggestions? Or positive experiences?


Gudanov - Oct 29, 2016 9:26:00 am PDT #24908 of 25505
Coding and Sleeping

My home desktop now has 32GB of RAM. It's nice to have plenty of memory.


omnis_audis - Oct 29, 2016 9:31:28 am PDT #24909 of 25505
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

I just can't be bothered to take my damn iPhone out of my pocket every fucking time I sit down

I can't recall if you ruled out Bluetooth headphones?


tommyrot - Oct 29, 2016 9:35:14 am PDT #24910 of 25505
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I want one of the fancy new MacBook Pros, but my current one is working fine and I've declared a moratorium on "expensive shit I don't really need" until my job situation is clarified a year from now.


NoiseDesign - Oct 29, 2016 12:00:50 pm PDT #24911 of 25505
Our wings are not tired

I've switched over to some of the new bone conduction headphones. There are a lot of situations where I really like them now.