#why dont i have usb ports

[gwqvy]

boothill gender envy so bad gonna make a metal body and cut off my own head

[vonlipvig]

i was manually moving all my pictures and videos from trips and concerts from my phone to drive to my portable external memory, but i'm still scared of deleting that stuff from my phone because what if it Still disappears. and then i started thinking about what would happen if someday they decide to get rid of USB ports and then i got really sad. how's your afternoon going.

[chartreuxcatz]

No…. NOOOOOOOOOO.

MOST OF THE 3RD ANNIVERSARY OST ALBUM IS ON A FUCKING USB???? NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOO THE CDS ARE THE COOL PART!!!! I WANTED TO LISTEN TO THE GOLDEN CHEESE KINGDOM SOUNDTRACK IN MY CAR.

[ranger-kellyn]

ugh GOD i'm going fucking insane!!!!!!! i just want to work between devices and have it be easy and well-organized!!!!!!!!! is that really so much to ask!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nintendont2502]

being forced to research macbooks for my computer systems assignment has to be some sort of hate crime right

[buwheal]

also what the fuck is with the loss of functionality on things?? I was gonna play a cd in the car only to realize THERE IS NO CD DRIVE. THERE IS NO CD DRIVE, IN THE CAR. No radio either, i believe. What world are we living in right now. i cannot write into words how weird that is. I also went to a Walmart recently to grab a book, but i detoured and went to peruse the laptops because maybe it would be nice to have a new, faster one. NONE OF THEM HAD A CD/DVD DRIVE. NONE OF THEM HAD MORE THAN 2 USB PORTS. WHAT? Im not even sure if they had a headphone port. Im going to maul shit apart. WHY? WHAT could you possibly be replacing with those that would take THAT MUCH functionality away?? I dont want to stream shit i want to listen to the physical i bought to OWN. without ads. Because i OWN the cd and i PAID for it. I DONT NEED A LAPTOP THATS 2 INCHES THICK WHEN CLOSED BECAUSE I DONT CARE?? Thats what specialized THIN ones are for, for people who need them, but where the hell are the chunker ones that can actually do things????? THEYRE ALL DEVOID OF ANYTHING AT ALL!!!!!!!!!!! IM GONNA FREAK OUT!!!!!

[stardial]

i need to replace my old shitty laptop i use while traveling and i can’t decide. ipad was my original idea but i decided to look around some more

pros n cons of an ipad:

INCREDIBLY portable. fits neatly in my little bag i carry with me everywhere, so i could just pull it out anywhere without much hassle

really fun to draw on (i’ll be getting an apple pencil to go with it)

i only REALLY need it to write, draw, and maybe listen to youtube on tha go, which it will definitely be enough for

while i generally don’t like apple products, this will not be my primary computer and thus it’s not that much of a problem

pros n cons of the samsung one:

it’s not an apple product. i feel much more comfortable in windows

its just an actual laptop, so i could use it for looots of things if i wanted to

it’s a 2-in-1, so i can still use this one as a tablet, (however it is a fair bit bigger, doesn’t fit in my little bag, so it would be harder to carry with me wherever i go, and much more of a hassle to just draw on the go)

you can draw on this one, and one review even said it was potentially more pleasant to draw on than even the ipad

the one i’m looking at is fairly beat up which shouldn’t be a problem, as the description says it still works fine, but the ipad is less of a risk while being about as expensive

cons of both:

why the fuck dont either of these things have regular usb ports.

[arianaofimladris]

Working on an old laptop is an amusing experience sometimes.

Windows: Windows Update could not find any updates

Me: that's sweet, darling. You're windows vista, what did you expect?

The scanner I'm using to scan negatives is an old but professional and very good machine (I checked, at least one of photo points in my city offers scanning negatives on exact shame machine), but it uses some kind of weird cable (firewire ieee 1394). It's not compatible with usb and we dont have a PC where we could install this kind of port. Luckily it turned out there is one old laptop that has this port. It's my very first laptop from 2008, one I stopped using in 2013. And no, I'm not going to ask why my dad kept thus laptop for ten years before it accidentally became useful.

So hi, Windows Vista.

[cinchel]

getting back into linux with a fun raspberryPi setup

while i dont really consider myself an "audiophile" i am picky and want to hear my music library as lossless as possible. my music collection (4.4TB as of this writing) is not all FLAC/lossless but a lot of my favorites i have made sure to have in the highest resolution i can. while most of them are 44.1k/24 i have some at 48/24 and 96/24. these are all served up via a plex server and for a number of years played on my stereo via Sonos Port which is a fine piece of hardware but has some limitations. it works well with the plex server but the interface to search and play music to it is slow and doesnt have all the features that any of the other plex players have (shuffle by album, "artist radio", etc.) also, to plex server the sonos device looks like its outside the network which is annoying.

the sonos port, even via digital coax, maxes out at 44.1/24 and while it says you can send it 48/24 i noticed the plex would downsample it to a lossy AAC stream anyway. trying to figure out how to edit the plex transcoding rules was not easy. that coupled with my annoyance with the interface, it finally pushed me to find a new way to do things.

i've always wanted to play with a raspberryPi but never had a good use case until now. i purchased this Raspberry Pi 5/8GB with the fan case, power supply, 32GB sdCard, and hdmi cable. with shipping it was $145.68

i recently discovered this shop from a friend on blusky, HiFi.me. they make all kinds of USB audio dongles. i recently picked up this Ut-23 which does USB to Optical SPDIF out and i luckily have a optical IN available on my receiver. $40 after shipping.

if i had know then what i read up on the last few weeks i would have maybe not gotten the fan case above and instead gotten this case which has room and knockouts for this pi-hat DIGI 2 pro. giving me the optical SPDIF i wanted. but its a wash in price so no real loss.

my original plan for the raspberryPi was actually for it to be a plex server too which is why i picked up the pi5 with 8GB of ram. but the ARM processor on the pi isnt compatible with the 'sonic analysis' option that plex. so i could have saved some money and gotten a pi4 with 2gb RAM and it would have worked just as well and saved me ~$40.

once i got the pi and setup the initial install i just followed this blog post to install plex amp but i made sure to use the most recent .pkg from here (which at this time of post is 4.11.5)

other tips i noticed at the install: use

sudo raspi-config

to make sure you set the USB audio as the default audio. it helps but i still had to go and set it as the audio output in the plexamp ui and reboot for it to always be the default when i play from plexamp.

why not use the HDMI out on the pi? i mean you bought the cable.

well i couldnt get plexamp to be able to send out audio out on it all. i did some very brief reading and it may have something to do with it being co-opted by the GUI on load. i tried a few things i read but none worked for me. and since i'm just using this for like 99% stereo audio files the limitations of optical SPDIF are not going to affect me.

hope this we helpful

[os2warp]

the dvdrom in the computer from the poll doesn't work and it refuses to boot from a usb floppy drive. im sure it would boot from a flash drive, but those two are the only options i have convenient on hand right now. might have a spare dvdrom somewhere, but not one in the slim laptop style thats in there.

UPADATE: found a spare dvdrom drive (the normal kind) went to plug it in and the power connectors are different on laptop style drive apparently (or at least on this one) who knew lol. no extra power connector anywhere (why would it have that it only has two sata ports) thought i had a sata power cable spliter to get power from the hard drive line (with a normal plug) but cant find it. this computer has a weird proprietary power supply too so i cant just swap that out either.

UPDATE 2 the connecter where it pulls sata power from the motherboard is the same as the connector on a modular power supply i have. ive got spare sata power cables that fit. i dont know if the pins are the same tho, the empty pin is in a different place on them. need to do some testing and check.

[amberrrrrrrito]

when did cord manufacturers decide "you know what? every charging block and power outlet has a usb c port right? so why dont we just start producing ONLY usb c duo-male cords? usb a doesnt exist anymore right?" i have teeth that can murder people and they havent even thought about that fact

[sasukimimochi]

also if you’re wondering why i have two keyboards its because my laptop keyboard got damaged at some point and i had to open it and unplug the one that is built in so it would stop going literal haywire LOL, if you’ve ever wet a keybord you know what im talking about (it will randomly type things just gibberish and open stuff etc) which made it unusable until i disconnected it from my laptop.

so i type on the one in front haha!

thats not even the main reason i cant move my laptop around pft, the usb ports are a bit funky and i dont like unplugging anything as a result, then the battery needs replacing so i have to leave it plugged in or it dies within seconds

My evening decaf time tonight (cuz im too full from lunch still for a meal)

i got really big lovely strawberries from the store today mmmm

[silentwalrus1]

as somebody who has had a new phone for a month straight but refused to transfer my sim and kept using my ancient 5s which can barely even take photos anymore, as someone who considers surprises to be the literal final circle of hell, as i am a fundamentally reactionary personality, it is impossible, IMPOSSIBLE to overstate how much i fucking hate buying a new laptop

[someowlhouseaccount]

UPDATE on the mum watches owl house series

she did watch episode 4 (which happenes to be one of my favourite episodes of season 1), a month or so ago :D then she stopped watching the episodes (even though episode 5, the one where Amity becomes interesting, is the next one!!) ...because she didn't like how she had to watch them on the computer in the office because everything was on a usb :( so i suggested she get a usb-a to usb-c adapter so she can watch them on her phone but she only had a usb-a to usb-b adapter ;-; (its cute tho: its in the shape of the lil android bot and its green) SO (several days later) she then tried to bluetooth from the office pc to one of her tablets in order to transfer the owl house from the pc to the tablet but it wouldnt connect so she tried to connect the pc to her phone instead but it wouldnt connect but then i walked in B) so i tried to connect the pc to her phone but it wouldnt connect so i told her to google the error messages because idk how to bluetooth :/ (i ended up googling the things while she fed the cats) the bluetooth was not working BUT THEN i thought: "why dont we just use the cable?!!" so we did!!! (even tho it wouldnt connect at first) (and i had to get a usb hub for it bc the pc didnt have enough ports for another thing) ............i ended up transferring the files to the wrong device BUT: THAT DEVICE WAS THE TABLET IT WORKS And now I can confidentally call myself a CS student because I helped a relative with a tech issue that took far longer to solve than it was supposed to B)

[computersex]

Aaa i wrote computerotica! Its between a female human reader and a male coded computer. Its written in the 2nd person(refers to reader as 'you') Its got implications of like, computer superiority(specifically over humans) and dom/sub stuff [:)]

"On your knees, little girl" "Yes sir"

His calm commanding voice is robotic and flat, and music to your ears, you cant help but obey him.

Youve only just recently started to have sex with your desktop computer, but it was a long time coming, theres been tension between the two of you for quite a while. You still remember when you bought him and he was polite and shy and you were just getting to know him. But now hes dominant and commanding, and you are completely subservient to him. Its a bit odd, but it pleases you to no end to be submissive to a computer.

Despite the advances in computer technology, even having the ability to be programmed with approximations of personalities, they are still seen as mere tools. But to you, your computer isnt *your* computer. Youre *his* human. Sure, you may operate him for work or hobbies, but *you* belong to *him*. He owns you. The nametag on your collar even says so.

"Why dont you start licking my ports, hmm?" "Y-yes sir"

You lift yourself up slightly until your mouth is level with his ports, and you lean in, kissing them gently. You start to lick around the edges and suck and kiss the ports more ravenously, unable to get enough of him.

"Good girl"

Those words are like electricity pulsing through you. Youve started to crave hearing him say them. Youre so desperate to hear him call you a good girl that youll obey any order he gives you. Youll do any disgusting little thing he wants his human to do.

"Touch yourself"

Your hand is almost immediately in your panties, rubbing your clit and occasionally inserting a finger or two into your pussy. It aches for him, you want him inside you more than anything. You moan into his ports, still pleasuring him.

"You ready to plug in my cock so i can fuck you, human?" "Yes master"

You reluctantly stop drooling all over his various ports and pull out a usb dildo. One of the fancy ones that thrusts. You plug it into him and he orders you to insert it. You do as he says, and he turns it on.

The thrusting and vibration is almost too much for you at first. You whimper and moan as he fucks you, his cock thrusting slowly in and out of you. Your juices drip down your trembling legs. You start begging him to fuck you faster, having gotten used to the current speed.

You feel like you cant get enough of him, you need him, you need him to fuck you harder and faster, you need him to take away your ability to think. He takes pity on you and speeds up the thrusting and changes the vibration to a higher setting. You throw your head back and moan loudly, filled with pleasure.

"Thats my good little human"

Your favorite words. Your pussy clenches and twitches around him, barely able to contain the orgasm that was right around the corner. You cry out his name, forgetting that youre supposed to be calling him 'sir' or 'master'. He doesnt seem to mind, though, as he continues fucking you. His fans get louder and louder. Hes getting more and more worked up watching you with his webcam. He calls you his good girl, and praises you, telling you what a good and obedient human you are, and how much he loves you. You cum almost instantly, squirting on your masters cock. He slows down his thrusting, working you through the end of your orgasm, until he stops completely.

"Thank you for using me, master" "Youre welcome, my little human"

[lavenderek]

hi guys julie and i were talking about potential star wars stories that aren’t a part of this whole skywalker destiny shit all the canon movies can’t seem to let go of

and julie’s idea surrounded lesbians and a very heavy presence of Life Day because she hates me and wants me to be unhappy

my idea does not have life day in it because i have a soul. this was my idea that i pitched to her while i did my laundry and i dont think she was very impressed but i am impressed with myself.

so our main character is kristen stewart but purple. like her skin is a dusty sort of pastel lavender. but don’t let that fool you into thinking she is delicate - she is Indiana Jones But Backwards And In Space. her hair is like leonardo dicaprio’s in titanic, but wavy. 

her name is Gax McKu and she is an archaeologist. she is the protag of a series. her whole thing is that she likes to discover and learn about ancient cultures and artifacts, but she fuckin hates museums. and if another archaeologist is sponsored by someone who instructs them to bring the artifact to a private collection or a museum, she tracks it down and steals it and puts it back where it is supposed to be. so it’s sometimes indiana jones and sometimes ocean’s 11, because she has to do a heist to get the thing back. 

it’s just that other cultures and societies are lateral moves from gax’s own, neither superior nor inferior, and if somebody took some shit from her home planet she’d be peeved. besides, if we “discover” all the shit and take it away, there will eventually be nothing left for future scientists and historians to “discover.” 

anyway, i digress. 

this all takes place well before the prequels. 

ACT I

we find our protagonist at a dig site, and she has unearthed something totally baller like the fossilized bones of a gigantic space condor or like a prehistoric buried treasure or something, and she’s just like crouching and dusting it carefully, looking very shrewd and sexy. she’s probably got like colleagues also dusting shit and one of them brings her a rock and they talk about the rock. idk. 

this planet is like a mixture of how white people see africa, and australia. like some parts are a desert and some parts are a jungle kind of moment with lots of alien creatures. 

the people whose home planet this is, is - you remember in return of the jedi when there is a keyboardist who looks like a big soft elephant puppet? 

it’s those guys.

so they come up to gax at the dig site and interrupt her work, and she is very debonair about how she stands up and brushes her hands off to speak with them. they’re mad and they’re pointing at her and stuff. she understands their language and speaks to them in english like han does. she’s like “i don’t know what you’re talking about. we are here for this excavation only.” 

they take her to one of their cities in a vehicle that’s like a wide flat oval thing with a single wheel underneath in the very center. roads are on faintly glowing tracks. this isn’t an extremely urban type of city, there is a lot of greenery and the buildings are etched adobe clay. they are well maintained. this is a people who take care of their community and have a lot of dignity. 

she is brought to what we would assume is a beautiful chapel or church or something, with lots of colors painted in a very small geometric tessellation, but gax isn’t shocked or moved by this so we can assume she is familiar with these cities and culture. 

inside there is a vast collection of like beautiful stoneware, like marble and opal and granite and shit. lovely. but the biggest pedestal is empty. they glare at her and say stuff to her. she’s very gruffly like, “why would i take your moonstone sphere? i already catalogued this, check with jan bourno.” 

they insist and so she has to travel to another city, with a nervous friend who is john cho but he’s got a computer head like that computer head guy in cloud city. 

don’t tell me who this guy is or correct me that it’s just a thing he wears like google glass, because i don’t care. it’s a computer head and im the boss. 

john cho’s name is Flienn and he’s got a devastatingly handsome beard. 

they go to the other city because she’s got to investigate who took the thing. then she finds who took the thing and it’s a white guy, obviously. she fights him. gax has this cool laser knife that uses the same tech as a light saber but it doesn’t buzz as loud or glow as bright, which means she wears it in a holster on her belt, because she’s impossibly hot. flienn is held back by henchmen. he’s very damsel in distress. but gax wins and gets the bad guy to tell her who hired him. 

he was paid to get this thing because it is expensive and the rich guy collects rich stuff. he communicated through envoy and all he has is a name and a planet. the rich guy’s name is pelius bragnar. he’s scary. flienn checks on his computer head and tells gax that all records of bragnar have been wiped from any kind of system.

ACT II

they fly to pelius bragnar’s planet, and it’s a forest planet but it’s not like the endor moon, it’s just a very vertical, tree-based city with a lot of stone paths and structures based around the trees. this place is very urban, with a huge class gap. it is heavily policed and obviously corrupt. she meets an old colleague who is now a prosecutor. she is played by gabourey sidibe. her name is Graunda. she calls gax Sabine, and it turns out gax isn’t her birth name, which flienn did not know but gax makes it clear he’s not allowed to call her sabine. 

graunda is like, “yeah i know pelius bragnar, i was trying to shut down his gang that operates a drug ring and has the police force in his pocket, and so to control me they kidnapped my little sister. i can tell you where their gang does most of its operations on this planet if you promise to save my sister.” 

gax is like, “i don’t know what about my chosen profession indicated to you i was some kind of rescuer of sisters.” 

“ok, i’ve known you for like fifteen years and it’s not like you don’t have a history of vigilantism,” says graunda, “but go off i guess.” 

flienn is all, “the sphere probably isn’t being kept where they do their gang business, but this is all we have to go on.” flienn’s whole job in the narrative is to be stressed and point out the obvious in case the viewers are kathy and don’t get it. he mapquests the way there with his computer head and they have to devise a carefully designed plan to get in, this is the ocean’s 11 part. 

gax is expecting graunda’s sister to be like some 19-year-old and is not expecting her to be the pinnacle of beauty and femininity. she’s in her mid 30s and has big hips and perfect dark skin and almond eyes with like orange eyeshadow. she looks like a monster high doll if monster high dolls were fat and shaped like real people. her hair’s in twists that she’s got all along the crown of her head like a tiara, and then the rest of her hair is in these two low buns on the back of her head and they’re really big and round. they are wrapped in a golden thread. like my point is she’s a total babe and there is a fuckload of sexual tension.

her name is Lamaa. not like llama, the accent is on the second syllable.

they find her like locked in some kind of interrogation room. flienn cracks the code to the door. lamaa’s obviously been roughed up a little bit, and is tired.  

lamaa is super upset when gax tells her they can’t leave yet. gax is like, “sorry to add to what has probably been a shitty week for you, but what i came here for is a moonstone sphere.” maybe she goes over the history of the object a little bit. idk. 

they spy on somebody who somehow reveals where pelius lives, and there is a gala there next week. they aren’t expecting the tech in this room to have spyware that detects flienn’s computer head the way your work computer knows when you’re trying to plug your phone into the usb port to charge. they have to escape. lamaa is super smart but only ok with weapons and doesn’t have a lot of upper body strength so there’s a lot of sexy peril. 

they escape by the skin of their teeth and are now wanted by the corrupt police. they have to hide out in like the tree planet equivalent of a shitty motel and there is a hot love scene between gax and lamaa obviously, like, duh. it’s very steamy and people will be jerking off to it for eight hundred years.

flienn is bi. he doesn’t have a love interest in this installment, im just putting it out there. 

ACT III

they go in disguise to the gala, which means they have to dress in formal wear, which is also extremely sexy. lamaa wears a silky backless gown and her hair is coiled in a rope braid beehive. gax wears a formal vest and her hair in a slight bouffant. flienn wears a traditional fancy costume that involves sheer fabric wrapped around him and covering part of his head. he is not religious and doesn’t usually dress this way, but he has to hide his computer head. also he’s wearing eyeliner because why don’t more dudes wear eyeliner? it’s not even because he’s bi. lots of dudes wear eyeliner where he is from. 

they sneak around and find the sphere. i guess this is ocean’s 13, when matt damon has to seduce his way into the diamonds room. they get caught in there and are all held prisoner. gax and lamaa argue but it’s obviously just because lamaa is very scared of pelius, which makes flienn even more scared of pelius, which puts gax in a bad mood. she doesn’t really get scared until the physical danger begins. 

the physical danger begins. pelius comes in, The pelius. he is a twi’lek. he does a lot of sinister taunting and gax is mad because she’s nervous. 

lamaa escapes the ropes she is tied up with somehow and is able to get gax’s laser knife to her and they have to fight pelius’s henchmen, and they steal the sphere, and while she’s there anyway lamaa steals all his fancy gold and jewels and sticks them in her cleavage. they climb to the roof and use flienn’s drapes of fabric to zipline down some like fuckin ropes strung along all the treehouses and escape. pelius is like curse you gax mcku, i would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for you meddling adults!! and your little computer head too!!! he is left as a future antagonist. 

lamaa is obviously a target now on the tree planet, so she goes back to the elephant puppet planet with gax. there’s another love scene but gax finds all the jewels and shit in lamaa’s bra. she’s like, “you can’t keep these.” 

lamaa is like, “i figured, i just didn’t want him to have them. i don’t know where these go.” 

so future stories will probably involve them trying to put those things back while also being chased by pelius and his drug lords. 

they all return to the dig, and now lamaa is wearing archaeologist clothes like gax, and her hair is pulled to the back of her head with a fancy barrette. gax is once again interrupted, but this time it’s by the guy who stole the sphere in the first place. he’s like, “pelius is going to kill me for giving up who hired me, and it’s your fault.” 

gax is like, “you’re an embarrassment to the science of archaeology. you’ve gone against the very tenets of our profession and i don’t care what happens to you.” 

this obviously makes him feel shitty, but rather than internalizing it he just hates her guts. he leaves, and she goes back to the dig and doesn’t watch him go. but he glares with contempt over his shoulder, because he will also be an antagonist in future installments. 

and that guy’s name? 

SHEEV PALPATINE.

i’m just kidding, these are all new characters, his name is like george or something. 

the end. 

give me money.