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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Forcing someone to use a different form of media to get acceptable support for your product is pretty bullshit. If I can sign up for, pay for, and use your product for years without a telephone, I shouldn’t suddenly be forced to use a phone to get support.

    Even if that might be the best solution at this point, it’s still garbage and something to justifiably complain about, especially considering it’s mildly infuriating we’re talking about.





  • There’s a huge part of it that is because there’s no communication mechanism to resolve conflict on the road, really.

    If you’re stuck behind someone going slower than you want to, how can you clearly communicate that?

    Even in a world where you could clearly speak to them, there’s huge potential for disagreement there, and since the only communication mechanisms can very easily be construed as needlessly dangerous or aggressive, of course you’re gonna see frustration and anger as a result






  • Is there any reason PCs can’t just receive HDMI/displayport input from other devices through the same mechanism they output it?

    I’m going to be crude here: is there any reason your bladder can’t slurp your pee back up from the toilet when you’re thirsty?

    Can you reverse your monitor to suck in light and behave like a camera?

    If you push your car backwards does it suck up CO2 and fill up the gas tank?

    Most things in life aren’t as bidirectional as we’d like. Video cards use electrical drivers to push signals down the display cables, which is completely different than using what are basically sensors to detect signals coming the other way. It would be quite expensive to design a GPU that does a good job of both, and mostly pointless.