I used to, but now my allegiance lies with ʞɹoʍǝɯɐɹɟ.

Tbf, that’s by iDesign. They want you to stay in their iEcosystem and spend more money on their products, if they allowed interoperability you might say go with Linux instead of Mac, or something. So take out a loan and buy another iProduct, good iConsumer!

Word to the wise brother laser printers work great with linux, but I’ve heard some mention about the newer ones not taking 3rd party toner cartridges. At least toner goes further and doesn’t dry up with disuse like ink!

Yeah I know it has to do with resistance but I couldn’t quote it to you rn, I’d have to look it up. And I’m vaping rn at .4ohms lol.

It’s coming, if phones are any indication. And yeah I need an adapter, it doesn’t dangle like a dongle, it’s a big hole with a small pole on the other end which is much better, afaik there has never been a computer ever that had a 1/4" instrument cable port but most audio equipment does, since I have both it makes sense to have it, whereas “they took away the 3.5 so now I have to go 1/4”>3.5mm>USBC because they also don’t make a 1/4th>USBC anywhere on earth" does not make sense unless you’re trying to sell me something.

Shocker that specialized equipment requires a specialized cable, I know, but my point is 3.5mm is absolutely not specialized hardware, it is still one of the most common connectors on earth, and as such it should still be supported.

Maybe for books, but for comics I could never switch. Like with the GBC for me the physicality is part of it, I don’t even like collected editions as much I prefer single issue floppies.

If I ever got a modern gaming device hands down it would be steam deck (well I guess sometimes I do play OpenMW on my laptop, but that doesn’t count.) Love me GBC, love me worm light, don’t need anything else for now lol.

Oh they’ll never come knocking. At best I’d get a letter from my ISP saying “please stop,” after a few of those they may cut off my service, but I have a VPN so they can’t see a damn thing!

I’m with you mainly, I buy physical and pirate digital, but I prefer physical most often if I’m home and have the means. Digital for on the go (except books and comics, still have to have physical for those. Digital doesn’t cut it.)

When I can I like to mix them, for gaming I have my GBC, but the only physical carts I have are Pokemon Yellow, and an ElCheapoSD flash cartridge with every GB and GBC game ever released loaded onto a microSD so I can emulate it on the old hardware. I want to try some of the new GBC games they came out with in the last few years though, but I can’t currently justify it at like $55/cart.

Honestly digitizing VHS isn’t the easiest, I just torrented copies for non-vcr use lol. I still enjoy the VCR though, something about just popping the movie in instead of navigating through directories on an external drive just hits different.

Also just tbf, you’d still have to carry the expansion cartridge to swap them, but they’re easy to carry in a laptop bag, and it’s still a much more elegant solution to use than floppy dongles everywhere like I’m running firefox on a plate of spaghetti. I still think it’s the absolute best solution to our current port problem, even with still carrying the cartridges (which feels like a GBC and hits the nostalgia too, so honestly I like having to carry them lol).

If I have to buy a new thing (assuming same quality) I’d go with USBC for sure, I just don’t like buying new things unless I have to.

But, then again, I’m about to pop in Rodan on VHS and watch it on an LCD tv from 2007, and then maybe play some SMB2 on the NES, so I have a huge tolerance for older stuff.

A fan of buying new things, eh? I’m on the “keep it until it catches fire” side myself. Why buy new USBC headphones when my 20yo 1/4th>3.5mm Sennheiser HD555s work just fine for both my PC and my receiver connected to the turntable? The only reason is “because companies have decided to phase it out so I have to buy new headphones.”

Well, jokes on them, needed a new laptop anyway and Framework has hot-swappable ports including a 3.5mm in addition to being highly fixable, so guess who got the sale over the “nooo you must have MY ports and buy a new one for a busted hinge” companies.

Hard disagree. 3.5mm and USBA devices are still too common and I use a lot of MicroSD despite the phone companies’ best efforts (flipper0, GBC flashcart, GBA flashcart, soon rPi devices, etc), I need both of those more than I need HDMI tbh, my TV has a USBA drive and I can just drop whatever movie on a jump drive and slap it in the TV hole.

Tbh I think Framework got it right, hot-swappable ports. “I don’t need my USBC on the right at the moment but I’m next to the router, let me slap in my eth port instead and plug in for faster internet.” I absolutely love it.

You don’t see all the furry porn, extra long Kanji posts, B-Movies, witches, hackers, and cultists?

Tbf the internet is entirely comprised of like 6 websites if you ask the average Joe, and I’m damn inclined to agree as someone who remembers webrings fondly and misses geocities (it’s like the bell curve meme lol, and btw yes I know about neocities I’m just sleeping on it).

But I agree, if they can email they can mastodon, it’s the same shit.

Evidentially mastodon makes it hard to find people on purpose unless you know their name “to stop harassment” I’m told, except I’m not sure how it does that at all and it just makes it harder to use the damn platform. That’s my one real complaint about mastodon.

I assume so, it’s their typical MO and thus: The Joke™.

They have services that claim to, but tbf I don’t use apple products and I block ads like I’m spraying for roaches, so I’m just taking apple at their word.

Here’s a screencap from the TLDR of their terms of service I posted a link to, says right here “This service may use your personal information for marketing purposes” so…

Android. It might be a shock, but it’s great once you get used to it. I completely degoogled and went with apps that don’t spy, which was the hardest part, but you could set up a separate user profile for spyware stuff like snapchat or whatever. It might be beneficial to go ahead and get one, flash it, and use it with wifi or a prepaid sim for a bit while you still have your regular phone as a backup/main if you’re worried about the transition.

For sure I’m just joking about apple’s habit of taking a feature that has been around for YEARS and claiming they “innovated” it, usually after they strip it down a little no less (like in this case where it appears to be a setting users can’t access, but Graphene lets you turn it on/off or adjust the time between lock and reset.)

On a pixel 8 running graphene right now, I love it.

Pssst, apple collects your personal data, and like google they “don’t sell it,” instead they use it to build profiles on their users and then go to ad agencies and say “Ok give us money and we’ll serve your ad to X demographic.”

https://tosdr.org/en/service/158