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Cake day: October 22nd, 2023

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  • I have this 8-port, 268 watt GAN tower with 3 QC 18watt A ports, 6 PD 30 watt C ports, and a PD 100 watt C port. It’s a top notch, high quality product. I paid 25 USD for it last year, but it’s $77 now from that store, but I bet you could find a Choice Super Deal.

    I also have one of these cheap 65 watt QC multi-port plugs. It’s thin, but seems fine.

    All that said, I have experienced battery failure, then also on several cheap replacement batteries, so I will keep my phone plugged into the recommended 30 watt C-cube.

    I’ve yet to discover a cable that doesn’t evoke skepticism after use. I will need to learn about the best wire materials for cables instead of buying the lowest priced items.

    I don’t buy into “you get what you pay for” because that’s a capitalistic sales pressure idiom motivating consumerism that’s become mindlessly repeated. As long as the technology, materials, craftsmanship and functionality are legitimate, the lowest price that meets my quality standards is what I pay. I always read those specs before letting the price influence me.










  • At least the OAuth2 access is protected. That’s the detail I needed to see.

    So many articles suck these days.

    That’s the direct implication of the innate nature of capitalism. News publishers drive researchers and writers into mill writing which unfortunately involves reworded mimicry of the few who publish the original “investigative research” they recorded from the source. They’re doing it for money too, so they aren’t alloted enough time to fully investigate off they want to publish their name to juicy details first before those who can and will fully investigate it to publish a full exposé.

    We expect news publishers to dramatize titles for the click-bait effect at their websites. But within a public forum platform (here), reposting the click-bait title into the community post effectively misleads forum readers because this space is personable and honest, so we expect an honest post title here. News publishers know this and exploit that in Reddit, but hopefully not here. Every time I see OPs copy-posting and running off, I have to suspect industry marketing efforts in effect, perhaps especially when OP is a bot.

    I really don’t want to see Lemmy become polluted with news marketing as though this platform is at all open to the same abuse as that socialist dictatorship platform we left to be here.







  • Clerkle@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone196
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    3 years ago

    I recognize a carnival-styled UI with a naked eye. When the UI feels like ADHD distractions, you know marketing tactics are the purpose of the toys. We know that’s expectable with free web services, but costly consumer products need to offer a fully-controllable experience to exclude statistic-mining spyware.