Universal Mangled Bus Gen 2x2x2

Apr 27, 2025

You Es Be:

The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) introduced the USB 2.0 standard on April 27, 2000, meaning this port speed is turning 25 years old today.

Just how cheap can Apple be?

Even the latest iPhone 16e, which is Apple’s latest budget model, is limited to USB 2.0 speeds.

Damn. Anyway, the naming schemes have been utterly baffling:

1998:
The first USB: USB 1.1 (12Mbps)
Shaky start, but it's okay.

2000:
The second USB: USB 2.0 (480Mbps)
Excellent second attempt. Definitely a step up in speed, and needs a new generation.

2008:
The third USB: USB 3.0 (5Gbps)
Fantastic third attempt! A huge leap forwards

2013:
The fourth USB: USB 3.1 (10Gbps)
That's fine. It's a doubling in speed, but its the same architecture... so fine.

Some time later: the USB naming committee has a collective stroke and renames:
USB 3.0 to USB 3.1 Gen 1. (which it isn't)
and USB 3.1 to USB 3.1 Gen 2

USB 3.1 should be USB 3.0 Gen 2, if anything. You can't name something USB X.1 Gen 1, if USB X.1 was not the precursor to USB X.1 Gen 1.

2017:
The fifth USB: USB 3.2 (20Gbps)
Okay... That is also a doubling in speed, but never mind. Fine.

Some time later (again): the USB naming committee's brain gets lost down the back of the sofa and renames:
USB 3.0 (USB 3.1 Gen 1) to USB 3.2 Gen 1. (which it absolutely the fuck is not)
USB 3.1 (USB 3.1 Gen 2) to USB 3.2 Gen 2. (which it fucking isn't)
And USB 3.2 to USB 3.2 Gen 2x2... WHAT?!?

Oh, it just keeps going. The only "logical" reason for all this is that they must have made more money from all the confusing extra numbers and marketing.

The cherry on top? USB cables are not equal. Some can't do super charging; some can't do data transfer; most are unlabeled! Good luck matching the ridiculous USB version numbers with the correct cable.

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They hate the Light

Apr 26, 2025

I thought the exact same: make millions of solar panels and then spend money to ... reduce the sunlight!?

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Immigration is War

Apr 24, 2025

Voting should be restricted to tax payers with ancestors in the land going back a hundred years. Voting rights for any immigrant is a horrible idea since their prime objective is to open the floodgates and import dozens of their dim relatives.

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Vat your problem is?

Apr 23, 2025

Thanks to those holes, mechanics, rightly, refuse to work on the trucks which adds another layer of danger to the roads.

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Just the worst

Apr 19, 2025

The Liberal party has been in power for a decade in Canada. In that time frame, they imported millions of low-trust, low-wage, low-IQ workers which crushed incomes for average Canadians. Furthermore, the immigration system has been turned into human trafficking where, largely, Indians pay tens of thousands of dollars to employers for a job. Natives can't compete when the wage is, literally, negative.

Service, etiquette, and trust has cratered as scummy hicks from the subcontinent are flooding the job market, getting into HR, and quickly firing non-Indians to hire their brothers, sisters, cousins, or friends. The ugly accent, the atrocious smell, and the blaring volume makes it much worse.

Of course, Canada hasn't built enough houses, schools, hospitals, roads, public transportation, etc. So, while the incomes of Canadians are stagnant, prices have exploded. Houses that a single non-college-educated employee could afford in the 90s, is becoming out of reach for a university-educated couple unless they have generous parents. Houses that cost $100,000 then, go for nearly $1 million today.

After all this, Boomers in Canada are voting for ... the Liberals!

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Zenith in the past

Apr 16, 2025

My very first graphics card purchase was the GeForce4 Ti4400. That was 22 years ago. It's sad to see such a decline:

The past four months have been the worst when it comes to gaming graphics cards releases from Nvidia. They've switched from superb engineering to exceptional marketing to hide the mediocrity of their latest series. They went from crushing the competition to destroying their own brand.

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Live not by lies

Apr 15, 2025

An excellent read about the Left and its lust for power:

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Diversity = Fuck White People

Apr 15, 2025

Here, in Canada, White people are either rejected or laid off their minimum wage jobs to make way for Indians who've bribed their way into the position. It's simply impossible to compete when the foreigner is willing to pay the scummy business owner $50,000 or more to acquire employment. Often, these Indians turn around and then call White people lazy and entitled for their misery, disgust, and indignation.

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History of Violence

Apr 15, 2025

Not shocking to those who've read about the Left in the 20th century:

That's why they label Trump as Hitler. Ergo, his supporters are Nazis. Of course, it's always a good thing to assault and kill Nazis. It's no surprise that out of the millions of retards in America, at least a few would try to murder this modern Hitler.

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Life or death

Apr 14, 2025

He'll be out after serving six months to make way for an old White woman who posted an "offensive" comment about Muslim rape gangs on facebook.

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This is England!

Apr 13, 2025

Daily stabbings, child raping gangs of Muslims, harassment of women, brutal assaults, robberies, murders, etc. Crime is exploding but the British police is busy with bullshit like this:

Monty Python couldn't have come up with this absurdity.

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Screens of Death

Apr 12, 2025

Nvidia is one of the biggest tech companies in the world with a valuation of over $2.7 trillion. Yet, in just a few months, we got:

  • Fake MSRPs. Sold out at nearly 50% higher prices.
  • Fake frames to pump up the FPS numbers. In reality, mediocre performance increases from the previous generation.
  • Real flames: melting power cables because of idiotic cost-cutting measures. Worse, they've known about this problem for over two years. Instead of fixing it, they boosted the power requirement on their top card!
  • Drivers issues: black screens or BSOD.
  • Removing PhysX.
  • Imagine, paying a ridiculous $3,000 for their flagship card, only to learn that it has hardware defects!

What makes this much worse for Nvidia is that AMD is not having these issues.

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Diversity!

Apr 11, 2025

Harvard University, once the gold standard of American education, is now offering a full-year, five-days-a-week remedial math class for incoming freshmen. The course—called “Math MA”—covers basic “algebra, geometry, and quantitative reasoning.” In plain terms, Harvard is reteaching middle school math to students it handpicked as the nation’s brightest.

"Brightest". It would be amusing to look at the numbers of Whites or Asians in these classes.

It goes to show just how much the diverse students lag behind. If Harvard can't find a few hundred colored students who are competent at math, then there's little chance for the rest of the country. It's doubling damaging; Harvard dilutes its brand and the colored graduates will be thought of as mediocre.

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Monsters on speed dial

Apr 10, 2025

When ignorant retards in the West try to tell you that WE'RE ALL THE SAME!, ask them how many child rapists they have in their contacts.

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Enemy of the People

Apr 06, 2025

Reminds me of a TV show where the police is hunting a terror cell in Europe. Of course, it's horrible White people who go into a migrant neighborhood with automatic rifles, shoot up the area, and murder a few. Won't you feel sorry for the oppressed coloreds? Meanwhile, in reality, multiple terrorist attacks have occurred across Western Europe where the overwhelming majority of the culprits were foreigners.

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The fire rises

Apr 05, 2025

Trump has always had tremendous energy and that assassination attempt really fired him up. He won more comprehensively this time. He's almost 79 and he has 3 years left as POTUS. He doesn't care what the leftist propaganda monkeys in the media say about him. That ought to be the goal for every America-first politician: make the media cry.

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Thanks, Obama!

Apr 03, 2025

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That compassionate health care

Apr 02, 2025

In those horrible capitalist societies where payment is required for medical services, one can schedule an MRI appointment by the end of the week. Young Canadians are learning the truth the hard way: can't rely on "free" health care when the wait time is over a year. Do whatever you can to save money, schedule an appointment in another country, and pay up. No other choice since the wait could be lethal.

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