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People trying to justifying Apple using a proprietary port on the Vision Pro because “eughhhh, it uses 13V batteries to increase the total watt hours >>>>:((” when the USB-C PD 1.0 standard literally includes a 12V profile. 😐

And the USB-C PD 2.0 & 3.0 standards include a 15V profile. 😐😐

Not to mention, Apple’s proprietary port can’t transmit data, as is, meaning if you brick your device during a reset or update, you have to take time out of your day and pay an Apple Store to fix it. 😐😐😐

Meanwhile, the USB-C PD standard includes support for USB 3.0 10Gbps speeds. 😐😐😐😐

And Apple literally helped design USB-C, so their insistent refusal to use it on their products is 😐😐😐😐😐

But don’t worry! Apple will, actually, sell you an adapter, so you can plug a USB-C cable into your $3,500 headset… as long as you pay a $99/year developer fee 😐😐😐😐😐😐

And then pay $300 for the dongle, itself. 😐😐😐😐😐😐😐

God. All this bullshit with Apple lately. It makes me want an Android so bad. I’m trying to keep my current phone as long as it’s getting software updates, so probably until 2025, with 2027 being a stretch goal for security-only updates, but it’s honestly getting hard. With all the DMA Temper Tantrum stuff Apple is doing, and all the classist snootiness iPhone owners tend to have, I’m honestly ready to switch. I feel embarrassed carrying an Apple phone around in public. Yuck.

Apparently the HDMI group has closed off its forums to outsiders, meaning the latest standard (2.1) cannot be freely implemented in software like Linux. AMD has, apparently for a while, been trying to find a way to legally implement HDMI 2.1 drivers in the Linux kernel, but they keep getting stopped by HDMI and their own legal team. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I really wish the rest of the computer industry would've joined Apple in the early 2010s and used DisplayPort, or even better, joined them in 2016 and used USB-C/Thunderbolt for display output.

You know, I’m sure the Apple Weather minute-by-minute notifications work just fine in Cupertino, just like all of Apples others services and features, but here in middle-of-nowhere Appalachia, they work just about as good as any other Apple service or feature does… that is to say, they don’t.