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Asthetic

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    Asthetic got a reaction from 8uhbbhu8 in LGBT community   
    I'm an ugly trans gawl! 18 and I came out a few months ago even though I knew it for suchhh a long time. I'm tryring realllly hard to get hrt but it wont happen anytime soon D: if ever
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    Asthetic reacted to D13H4RD in What do you think of USB-C?   
    USB-C is the future....in both good and bad ways.
     
    For one, I love its potential, especially when it has a Thunderbolt 3 controller, acting as a USB port, power input/output, DisplayPort and even for external GPUs.
     
    On the other hand, the transition could've been done better. Not by removing all ports and slapping USB-C without at least providing a dongle in the box....Apple.
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    Asthetic reacted to potoooooooo in What do you think of USB-C?   
    I can't remember the last time i plugged more than one usb device at a time into my laptop.
     
    Every now and then a mouse, every now and then a flash drive. That's it, and never a monitor output.
     
    4 USB-C 3.1 w/DP ports is more than most people will ever need. 1 mouse, 1 flash drive, 1 display output, and 1 for charging. 99% of people will never need more than 4 at once. Probably only a few people need more than 2 at once, and now that USB type C monitors exist with built in power delivery and USB hubs, the arguement for more ports on laptops starts falling flat.
    I don't believe you. If they were cheap knockoffs, they weren't USB-C.
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    Asthetic reacted to KE2012 in What do you think of USB-C?   
    Well, I'm sure the port doesn't get to claim it's increased reliability for nothing. I'm probably just unlucky. 
     
     
    Yeah, the cable for my phone came in the box (Nexus 6p), and the speakers were a bunch of cheap no namer things (JBL knock off I think) I bought for a camping weekend away so I didnt care if they got wet and damaged. Chucked them long ago now so can't remember preciserly what they were.   
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    Asthetic reacted to Zodiark1593 in What do you think of USB-C?   
    I resurrected my old 3rd gen iPod Nano for this reason actually. Means my phone doesn't need to leave my pocket in the car.
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    Asthetic reacted to Zodiark1593 in What do you think of USB-C?   
    I just keep the dongle on the headphones, so its annoyance is pretty minimal.
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    Asthetic reacted to Zodiark1593 in What do you think of USB-C?   
    For some phones, the USB C is also used for headphones too, so I'm interested in seeing if the port will hold up such heavy usage.
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    Asthetic reacted to NinJake in What do you think of USB-C?   
    I love new tech that provide more options and better I/O. However, I do not think it's smart to release anything with strictly one type of port. I'd rather have a device that isn't "super thin" just to ensure I can still have some 3.1 USB and a variety of display ports. (HDMI, VGA, DP)
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    Asthetic reacted to intender in What do you think of USB-C?   
    I feel like we are still 5-7 years from when the old usb a standard will disappear on mainstream stuff.  Apple did what they did because if they dont change something and convince all their loyal fans that it is the greatest thing since sliced bread then they have no reason to sell you a new laptop.  I like to think that most pc manufacturers are a combination of too afraid (thats not a bad thing) and too cheap to jump headfirst into new tech most of the time.  I mean if you go to walmart or best buy and look around a lot of laptops still have vga outputs.  Who still uses vga???  And in the business world there there is still a demand for old interfaces because they dont want to replace all their peripherals or buy 100 adapters just because they needed new computers for the office.  At my last job installing security and fire alarms we still had to special order computers from dell with serial and parallel ports on them so we could hook up to systems that some big companies still have from the 80's and 90's. We even had to order them with windows xp because a lot of the software didnt support anything newer. 
     
    I have a macbook pro that is almost 4 years old and it is still great.  only thing I dont like about it is having to carry an adapter for the mini display port to hook up to external monitors.  I have friends that are graphics designers and professional photographers who were waiting on the new macbook before it came out and after they announced it were scrambling to try and order the model before it so they didnt have to carry tons of adapters and stuff around with them.  They are dedicated enough to the platform that they still wanted a mac, just not the crap that apple was trying to force on them.  apple lost sight of what the professionals really want and need on a day to day basis in an effort to satisfy the hipsters with something a tiny bit thinner and more minimalist.  I mean they have basically been selling the exact same computer for about 15 years and managed to stay relavent with small refreshes from time to time.  hopefully they learn from their mistakes.  and hopefully so did pc manufacturers. 
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    Asthetic reacted to NinJake in What do you think of USB-C?   
    Only when all current peripheral manufacturers also switch to USB-C. (Mice, keyboards, printers, flash drives, etc..)
     
    ....And that's IF there will ever be a day when EVERYONE switches to the latest and greatest, but by then there will probably be USB-D
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    Asthetic reacted to Drak3 in What do you think of USB-C?   
    Too many standards on Type-C. Just having USB on type-C ports needs to be killed off on every form factor besides small tablet and phone.
    Make it just Thunderbolt on laptops, desktops, and large tablets. And have it as a supplimental port, not a replacement.
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    Asthetic reacted to intender in What do you think of USB-C?   
    It might be great for you as a tech enthusiast, but from a business standpoint you swap everything to a new standard and you have just lost my business.  The business already has printers, keyboards, mice, monitors, and if its like my old job lots of proprietary stuff that requires their own dongles and adapters to connect to their proprietary hardware.  When you start having to connect dongles to dongles to dongles just to get something connected then you start running into issues where this dongle doesnt play nice with that dongle,  and this other dongle works with everything except my printer, but the one for the printer wont work with something else.  Most businesses are not setup properly for modern tech, and even a small business of 20 or 30 employees would financially burdened from trying to bring in new hardware like that. 
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    Asthetic reacted to Blebekblebek in What do you think of USB-C?   
    More option is always good.
    The problem is not the technology, but the practices.
     
    We are at a point when people are so much forgiving for receiving less for more price.
     
    it used to be like this

     
    and now people think this is a good idea.

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    Asthetic reacted to Blebekblebek in What do you think of USB-C?   
    I don't really care about those port, but if that is the argument, then put more USB port why just 1 or 2 or even 3.
    Add Thunderbolt, USB-C, USB-A, USB 3.1, USB 2.0 all together.
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    Asthetic reacted to PlayStation 2 in What do you think of USB-C?   
    People complain about having too much, they reduce what they can have.
    People complain about having too little, they offer dongles.
    People complain about having dongles, they can't do much about that.
     
    It's all a thing of complaining, really.
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    Asthetic reacted to KE2012 in What do you think of USB-C?   
    A phone charger and a cable for a speaker. 
     
    (I stripped the cable down thinking it must be a bust cable, but it was the connections inside the plug bit that failed) 
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    Asthetic got a reaction from TheCherryKing in What do you think of USB-C?   
    it's annoying to use a dongle too c:
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    Asthetic reacted to Timbs in Something happened with AMD Vega prices?   
    Good thing I'm too cheap to get a Freesync monitor lol.
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    Asthetic reacted to ErrystioT in Laptop for CS and outside. 1000$~ (vote)   
    Well, at least the HP still offer 1 USB type A which should ease you up a bit on dongles however if you need to read SD cards and display output to external screen, then you might need some dongles
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    Asthetic reacted to D13H4RD in Laptop for CS and outside. 1000$~ (vote)   
    The Spectre looks like a pretty good 2-in-1.
     
    HP’s been on quite a roll lately, along with Dell.
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    Asthetic reacted to ErrystioT in Laptop for CS and outside. 1000$~ (vote)   
    In which country are you buying the laptop? As for the recommendation, I'd pick the HP Spectre x360 13.3" and if you can get the model with the Pen Digitizer support in your country, it's a compelling convertible laptop especially the pen support, which can help you greatly if you do a lot of note taking. Battery life on it is pretty great, it should be able to last you about 7-8 hrs of your programming and note taking tasks. Also it's the only one with 2 ThunderBolt 3 ports (from your options besides the MacBook Pro 13 2016 model) which kind of makes it future proof (for eGPUs and the like).
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    Asthetic reacted to ErrystioT in Laptop for CS and outside. 1000$~ (vote)   
    I'm a CS student myself, currently using Lenovo IdeaPad Y400 bought from 2013 (specs in signature) and the battery life is horrible at 3hrs (4 if I'm lucky) on light usage. So yes, something with low power CPU (the Intel U series) and large battery would benefit you A LOT.
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    Asthetic got a reaction from Jon Jon in Something happened with AMD Vega prices?   
    Lol. you're not missing much
    I feel like 144hz and freesync and all that are things you don't really care about until you use them. They just make you nitpicky. 60fps was fine to  before my new monitor for example. now it's garbage and 144hz isn't special anymore. Personally I don't see the point.
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    Asthetic got a reaction from Teddy07 in Laptop for CS and outside. 1000$~ (vote)   
    that's nice to hear! I'll still wait for people to give opinion son those models.
     
    I don't think I should get mac if they're good. cause the only reason I was considering it was longer lifespan!
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    Asthetic reacted to Teddy07 in Laptop for CS and outside. 1000$~ (vote)   
    It all depends on the model. People who say Asus and hp are bad in general are wrong.  
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