Those of us who never had to buy them now have to for backward compatibility. That especially includes us iPhone people who are new to the party and have to buy both the newer standard and the older. There are a lot of iPhone people.

That’s more of an Apple issue than a USB issue, imo.

For anyone, you have to carry double the number of cables. You might find a modern charger or you might find an older one.

I agree that’s annoying. But again, once the transition started, C-C cables came with A-C adapters. Those still exist.

Are you asking why USB-C is more convenient? It’s smaller, it’s reversible, it carries more power, it has faster data …. How’s it not more convenient?

The size difference is minimal. If you’re saying you can bring a C-C cable but not an A-C cable, I don’t believe you. Reversible is just a matter of flipping it if it’s wrong. USB-A still has up to 30 W. Do you really need fast charging in public outlets? Data is moot, since we’re talking about charging and ideally even using non-data cables to avoid unintentional data transfer.

I had to look up what that means. Does it really matter that much? We have fast chargers using A-C cables for phones since far back. Is PD that much better?

USB-c are more convenient and have a wider range of uses.

How? Since USB-C has been around for so long, A-C cables have been the norm from the start. Everyone has them already. I don’t see the downside.

Wait. I thought they were saying it’s annoying that there are now USB-C outlets replacing USB-A, which would be a waste. They actually want USB-C outlets?! I’d guess at least half of all USB-C cables are USB-A to USB-C. There’s absolutely no reason to switch from A-outlets.

You can use FF’s or Chrome’s cookie files: http://aria2.github.io/manual/en/html/aria2c.html#load-cookies

I would recommend Aria2. It can download several chunks of a file in parallel, resume downloads automatically with a set number of retries, it supports mirrors (maybe not an option for Google Takeout, but for other cases), and it can dpwnload over many different protocols.

In Swedish I pronounce y as y. It has its own sound and doesn’t sound like another letter, so it can’t be written as a combination of other letters.

Not in Sweden. Veveve.

Real bread (Google “Schwarzbrot”), real cereals

Way to gatekeep. 🙄

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Very much depends on the bread. I wouldn’t refridgerate toast or other super white breads, but moist, dark, kernely ryebreads are supposed to be refrigerated. They dry out super easily otherwise.

Wait. When did onboard sound get good enough that you don’t need a soundcard? My computer is “only” 12ish years, and it has a soundcard. The reason used to be that internal ones sounded like shit.

How?!

Also making seitan from flour is super easy. If I could get my hands on pure gluten it would be insanely easy. Maybe not as rich in taste as soy meat, but so much cheaper than store bought meat analogues.

I think the wire ones usually do too. When they’re out of power and possibly if it rains, they go straight until they reach the wire, and then follow it home to dock.

GPS are very fancy ones, unless that’s changed since I last looked into it. A buried wire, “invisible fence”, has been the norm for all consumer grade ones I’ve seen.

Sure there are. There are border controls between Germany and Denmark and between Denmark and Sweden. They were supposed to be temporary, but here we are nine years later and they’re still up.

Where I’m from, we had a wealth tax, but when it was removed in 2007, it only accounted for 0.43 % of all taxes because it was too easy to avoid.

Yes! I forgot about this one! The absolute confidence despite being so ignorant is really, really infuriating!

Reminds me of some 20 questions-like tv trivia where someone asked “is it an animal” and the other went “well, not exactly an animal”. It was a bird. 😳