Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Diversity - good or bad ? Date: 10 Jan 2025 22:45:03 GMT Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <8b262a1f-507f-ef10-e4d3-a981dca5b7d1@example.net> <2e17ec15-582f-5a71-84e5-d4d490274270@example.net> <7454fa51-3534-2584-2197-90613efb2091@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net G6Ly2FZujR8Pwm8rOJ8ONQBQ5sVWc/PNQ2cyl4IguSlWJaDZcF Cancel-Lock: sha1:EnTnlbAAjrFGcGfErBpf7lFXw+k= sha256:IEvwMx992qRJ/OVXR4AJkDMZUr/zcFVvrrdXv8o0BVY= User-Agent: Pan/0.155 (Kherson; fc5a80b8) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:64131 On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 21:17:50 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote: > The multiple connector types have been very counterproductive. The > Chinese government brought some standardization by requiring micro-USB > connectors, but Apple soon found a way around it and introduced > "Lightning" connectors just to be different. Round two switched everyone > to USB-C (again initiated by China - or was it EU). To my eyes, USB-C is > not "flatter" than Micro-USB, but it does have the advantage of being > symmetrical. I've got a wall full of cables to attest to that foolishness. There is the Mini-B for the Garmin GPS and an older Kindle, the Standard B for the legacy Arduinos, the Micro-B for the phone, newer Kindle, and the Pico boards, and the USB-C for the Fire tablet, airbrush, and other stuff. > Or the way car radios were standardized, so you could buy a new, > high-end AM/FM/CD radio to spice up your 10-year old car. That was a relatively brief period when manufacturers mostly used DIN sizing and dash kits were available. Prior to that a hacksaw and sheet metal skills helped but at least a radio was just a radio or sometimes an incorporated cassette or CD player. Since I work on my own vehicles my pet peeve is oil filters. My Toyota has a Toyota engine; the sedans of the same year were Mazda 2s and have Mazda engines. Physically the filters are the same size but they do not interchange. I haven't bought a new bike in years but Shimano was a master at obsolescence. The tools to remove the bottom bracket or freewheel always were just enough different, maybe one spline more or less, that they wouldn't fit.