Budddy27

I think I found goth Linus and he’s not a cat this time.
but seriously I was scrolling through Instagram and this came up, dose it not look like him!? 

A while back my mother and I where in the car bringing my sister back from a doctors appointment, and I had brought the charger to my iPad witch was from a 3rd party manufacturer( I got it from dollar general ) I brought mine because she usually forgets hers and when she asked me to plug her phone in I went to plug her iPhone in to my charger and she said stop .......... so I stopped and then she asked if that was her charger that came from apple and I said no it was mine then she said do not plug her phone in ( it was at 13%) I asked why and she told me and I quote “ I read somewhere on the internet that iPhone chargers have virus on them and they said to only use your apple charger.” ......... what. I’m not a computer god and I don’t claim to know a lot about any type of electronic device including charger. But I’m pretty sure that if this was true that millions of iPhone would be infected due to how often apple chargers break and I’m almost positive that what she read was some dumb clickbait on a news website. Please help me find the article she “read” and tell me if there’s any way this is possible. Sorry for bad grammar. 

A while back my mother and I where in the car bringing my sister back from a doctors appointment, and I had brought the charger to my iPad witch was from a 3rd party manufacturer( I got it from dollar general ) I brought mine because she usually forgets hers and when she asked me to plug her phone in I went to plug her iPhone in to my charger and she said stop .......... so I stopped and then she asked if that was her charger that came from apple and I said no it was mine then she said do not plug her phone in ( it was at 13%) I asked why and she told me and I quote “ I read somewhere on the internet that iPhone chargers have virus on them and they said to only use your apple charger.” ......... what. I’m not a computer god and I don’t claim to know a lot about any type of electronic device including charger. But I’m pretty sure that if this was true that millions of iPhone would be infected due to how often apple chargers break and I’m almost positive that what she read was some dumb clickbait on a news website. Please help me find the article she “read” and tell me if there’s any way this is possible. Sorry for bad grammar. 

A while back my mother and I where in the car bringing my sister back from a doctors appointment, and I had brought the charger to my iPad witch was from a 3rd party manufacturer( I got it from dollar general ) I brought mine because she usually forgets hers and when she asked me to plug her phone in I went to plug her iPhone in to my charger and she said stop .......... so I stopped and then she asked if that was her charger that came from apple and I said no it was mine then she said do not plug her phone in ( it was at 13%) I asked why and she told me and I quote “ I read somewhere on the internet that iPhone chargers have virus on them and they said to only use your apple charger.” ......... what. I’m not a computer god and I don’t claim to know a lot about any type of electronic device including charger. But I’m pretty sure that if this was true that millions of iPhone would be infected due to how often apple chargers break and I’m almost positive that what she read was some dumb clickbait on a news website. Please help me find the article she “read” and tell me if there’s any way this is possible. Sorry for bad grammar. 

You've both misunderstood things. 3rd-party chargers definitely CAN try to upload viruses/malware/etc. to your devices and there have been cases where e.g. the publicly-accessible chargers at airports have done exactly this. It doesn't mean that EVERY 3rd-party charger will do it, however.

or any card!
Age, Sex whatever

I don't think watercooling + mineral oil would be a good plan, a chillbox would make a lot more sense where you put the entire PC in a sub zero box.

I take it this Verge is a electronics news source.
When it comes to info, if the "journalists" are too lazy to double check facts and they are just copy & paste and changing a few things around then they are regarded as worthless. Notice I used journalists in quotes, yes because they are not true writers, they are fake writers taking the easier way. Yahoo news now is a joke! Along with all the companies that provide for them like the CBC.

There was some yes, and I wasn't trying to claim there was none I just get pissed off when people always play the race card. 

I mean there was genuine rascism being hurled at the guy, and that isn't acceptable. The key is that they branded all the criticism as non-constructive harassment which is utter non-sense.
Owning mistakes and making an effort to reach out to the community to correct them would have killed this meme on its feet. Instead the Verge doubled down and acted like elitists, setting themselves as the baseline by which all other bad PC building practices will be compared.
Own worst enemy...

I think the Verge is fine. Just like any publication, they make mistakes and have to retract statements. They do have some videos that are weird and make you wonder why they thought that was a good topic to make a video about but for mainstream tech news and reviews, they do a fine job. No better or worse than other publications. Maybe a bit shallow in depth but, for the most part, nothing glaringly inaccurate or blatantly false.

It's also worth noting though that if you're on a tech forum like LTT, chances are you aren't the Verge's main target audience.

In recent memory, it was an animation about rifling. They showed the entire cartridge traveling down the length of the barrel instead of just the projectile. i'll post it below.
 
 

The Verge is a crapshoot. I'm not saying they're incapable of making something good and credible, I'm just saying you can't tell the difference between a skip fire and The Verge if it weren't for the logo.
This isn't about tech really, just in general. 
 


See? Hard to tell the difference. 

I feel the same way.
 
I think the problems are:
1) The writers at the Verge are just a step up from the average consumer. They know how to download apps from the app store and they know how to read the specs on the back of a box, but that's about as far as their knowledge goes. That's alright for gauging how my mom might like a phone on a purely subjective way, but for reviews I prefer some deeper analysis than that.
2) There are so many writers over there that the same device could potentially get very different ratings depending on who got assigned to reviewing it. A great example of this is when they in one article bashed the Note for being too big and couldn't be used with one hand. Then a little while later a review of the iPhone Plus came out and said it was so good because it was big. The reason? Well, either Apple bias (which The Verge has quite a lot of) or because two different people reviewed the phones and they have different preferences.
 

I think The Verge's credibility took a sizeable hit from the community, this really isn't needed.  Not that it's water under the bridge but they learned their lesson pretty I think.  Even if what's his face rants in video games to people, he still knows.  We know, they know, it's done.
 
(btw, use apostrophes.  I went looking for what I thought was the Verges Credibility philosophy thing, like a dumbass ;( )

The little I've noticed from them is that they're a pretty standard blog about tech stuff, nothing remarkable.
 
I have also notice that in 100% of the cases where there's a controversy attached to them, their political leanings are brought into question by at least some people while the rest of the people who create this "controversies" that might not mention it seem to create tremendously huge issues out of otherwise fairly innocuous stuff.
 
I am forced to conclude that people into tech have a very self evident political leaning and that they punish any outlet that goes against their preconceived notions regardless of the issue at hand because they simply considered part of the "X media" (X implies a political leaning btw) and this is just an example of "thing-I-do-not-like/crazy-conspiracy"

The Discovery Channel has made some seriously damning errors in their presentations in the past...

People see them as credible source??
 
You see how they worked with that Video, so there is really no reason to trust them at all...
You know that they don't do their job or read the damn manuals...

When shit gets real and you have to call your boss so that everyone still gets paid their salary and company keeps running lol
 

I think I found goth Linus and he’s not a cat this time.
but seriously I was scrolling through Instagram and this came up, dose it not look like him!? 

I think I found goth Linus and he’s not a cat this time.
but seriously I was scrolling through Instagram and this came up, dose it not look like him!? 

I think I found goth Linus and he’s not a cat this time.
but seriously I was scrolling through Instagram and this came up, dose it not look like him!?