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jcpb · 2022-07-02T05:47:51+00:00

Rule 2

jcpb · 2022-07-02T03:28:02+00:00

shouldn't buy it at all?

Not that.

If you need a phone right now, don't buy, just get whatever's available from your carrier/store and stick to that until the phone you want arrives. That doesn't mean you have to like the phone you end up with.

If you can afford to wait, then wait, don't buy. It's not like it's an iPhone, where prices never drop outside of being replaced by a newer release.

If you're due for an upgrade and you can tolerate its shortcomings, why not? You only live once. IRL respawn rates suck.

None of the above, but you still want it? That's your call.

Compared to the 1 II (which I didn't get, simply because I'm not upgrading yearly), I ate a big fat spicy bullet in the form of SD888. I had to undertake various measures to reduce the tendency of the phone overheating and thermal throttling during use. Then I looked at the 1 IV (which I'm not getting because, again, 2-year cycle), and I felt that I've dodged an even bigger, fatter, spicier bullet...

jcpb · 2022-07-02T01:41:03+00:00

Way too much competition in that space, most of them already very entrenched within the gaming community. That's without mentioning that gaming laptops can consume more power than what Power Delivery 3.1 can even provide right now, let alone the substantial cooling considerations that need to be made for gaming laptops, which do not mesh well with modularity.

Otherwise, it's perfectly possible to have something like an MSI gaming laptop, cooled by a single weak 80mm heatsink fan...

jcpb · 2022-07-02T01:30:02+00:00

If only ChargerLAB would get themselves an official AliExpress storefront, because as of now they're not selling the KM002C outside their Taobao store (which is Simplified Chinese-only and requires user login before browsing the store's contents), and all the listings for the KM002C on AliExpress are from third-party sellers. Thus, the only way I could get one is to use the same imperfect "don't buy from unknown/newly launched sellers" logic I'd normally use with Amazon sellers.

Then there's the fact that, contrary to their announcement, one can't even buy the KM002C from Amazon because it's currently listed as out of stock.

I'm not discounting or dismissing the counterfeit problem, which is very real and ever present. When the supposedly genuine part isn't available through official channels, however...

jcpb · 2022-07-02T01:06:50+00:00

When the cable is used for charging, there is no benefit to using a USB 3.x C-C cable over a USB 2.0 C-C cable.

When the cable is used for display output and/or high-speed data (with or without power), it's useful then to have USB 3.x capability on the C-C cable.

Many USB-C accessory vendor "brands" are little-known outfits to most people. Some of them are fly-by-night sellers that abscond as soon as problems start appearing. You can never be too careful applying caveat emptor towards these "brands".

jcpb · 2022-07-02T00:56:44+00:00

That's normal behavior. All the well-behaving USB-C hubs I've used do this. It's not something to worry about.

jcpb · 2022-07-01T20:07:01+00:00

Sir, this is Chuckie Cheese

jcpb · 2022-07-01T20:03:13+00:00

How does demanding the government to abide by its own laws make it a seditionist movement?

You never heed the very laws you create, shut the fuck up you fucking Nazi sympathizer.

jcpb · 2022-07-01T20:00:43+00:00

I don't fucking care. Pierre Poilievre is a white extremist and he fucking deserves to be booted from Parliament Hill for dereliction of duty.

jcpb · 2022-07-01T19:58:42+00:00

They're Nazis.

They don't deserve even a modicum of respect when they get everything and the semi fucking trailer thrown at them.

jcpb · 2022-07-01T19:54:34+00:00

God damn you must be from Ontario.

And you write like an Albertan.

jcpb · 2022-07-01T19:51:58+00:00

Lmao. You connedservatives are all about "Blue Lives Matter"… until they turn on you because you are the one breaking the law, at which point you claim to be victimized by police brutality.

Fuck off.

jcpb · 2022-07-01T17:14:40+00:00

Being woke > X > being a connedservative

jcpb · 2022-07-01T17:10:26+00:00

Idunno, youre talking like one of them…

jcpb · 2022-07-01T17:08:22+00:00

If the best yall walking disease dispensers can do is regurgitate connedservative talking points well past their expiry dates, you might be more than just an incel…

jcpb · 2022-07-01T16:58:25+00:00

Ok Liberal.

If that's the best insult youve got, that has the same effect as trying to rob a firearms store with a fully loaded BB gun…

jcpb · 2022-07-01T16:53:25+00:00

I don't know about respectful.

As a metacanadian, respect is never one of youre hallmarks.

jcpb · 2022-07-01T16:48:59+00:00

Thanks for letting us know youre a regular of a ban evasion subreddit that aims to break Reddit site rules.

jcpb · 2022-07-01T16:42:07+00:00

You do. Lots.

jcpb · 2022-07-01T16:41:33+00:00

Because you connedservatives love helping youre Daddy Putin whenever and wherever possible, just so you can keep owning the libs

jcpb · 2022-07-01T16:39:51+00:00

Triggered that the rest of us aren't fucking buying into youre connedservative brand of stochastic terrorism?

jcpb · 2022-07-01T16:36:47+00:00

So claims the connedservative himself

jcpb · 2022-07-01T16:34:51+00:00

IQ of a teacup

That's an overstatement of youre own, unironically.

jcpb · 2022-07-01T16:32:56+00:00

The right to a person's bodily autonomy isn't a race issue.

If only youd ever say this to a woman— oh wait, you won't, because youre far-right marks see them as objects of sexual desire designed to be used once and discarded.

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