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  • Ditto… ish.

    In my dream I mixed up some constraints of the real-world system. I still came up with an elegant solution that would have worked if the dreams constraints were true. Except they weren’t and the solution was useless.

    Bonus was the dream-solution exposed a “front door” so to speak on the real problem and I felt dumb that I even spent 5 minutes thinking about it.





  • Plug a USB-C screen into a USB-C port. Will it work?

    Maybe? If the manufacturer has wired the port to the GPU for DP/HDMI alt mode it might.

    … but you’ve used this display on this laptop before?

    Try another port! Nope, still nothing.

    Maybe it’s the cable? Rummage around through your cables and try a few out. Hope you don’t have any from the 2010s because there’s a good chance they’ll ruin your device.

    The screen works! But performance is terrible, why? It’s running in DisplayLink mode.

    You give up and suffer through.





  • Pros:

    • not as big as the UK plug
    • not an American plug
    • those power cords that stick out at a diagonal parallel to the wall

    Cons:

    • no inbuilt fuses
    • no inbuilt guard on the socket
    • every plug and socket feels cheap.
    • thin shitty pins that bend easily
    • shitty sockets that break when shitty bent pins get plugged into them.
    • used by a handful of people with tight regulations … and China. Good luck getting decent affordable, certified, smarthome sockets.
    • that cunt who invented the vertically oriented twin socket wall unit. What a fuckhead.
    • those power cords that stick out perpendicular to the wall.

  • You’re conflating copackers with brands.

    Store brands will go to the same copackers, truth. But the copacker will not just make a premium brand product for a store brand at a lower cost. It will be a recipe made to a taste/price spec. Maybe all the ingredients are sourced from the same place, but the recipe will be different.

    What can be nearly identical are branding tiers. Large companies like Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble etc will sometimes have multiple “competing” brands in the same market, all made in the same factory.




  • RecallMadness@lemmy.nztoMemes@lemmy.mlJust sayin
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    6 months ago

    It’s nearly as if there’s no single solution. Houses suck and apartments suck for completely different reasons.

    (But tbh, nearly all of the reasons you mentioned apartments suck have been maybe an issue once 10+ years of living in apartments)