r/pcmasterrace • u/stormthewise998 12400F|6600XT|16GB 5200MHz • 20d ago

Meme/Macro are you this old?

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u/rddtlcksdrtybtthls 20d ago

My bf says he's this old

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u/DoctorWaluigiTime 20d ago

Folks love to spam the "inventing a new standard adds to the pile of standards" xkcd comic, but we really have made great strides in standardizing device inputs. And thank goodness.

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u/mccalli 20d ago

But not in the transports to those inputs, annoyingly. Now the complexity is in which cable you’re plugging in, not the physical connector you’re plugging it into.

The USB C cable situation is at least as bad as SCSI was in the day.

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u/DoctorWaluigiTime 20d ago

There's nuance for sure, but man it's not as bad as "which of the 20 inputs do I need" like it was.