That’s sick. We’re getting a new fiber network in my city and we’ll top out at 10gbit. I’m probably not paying for that (would be >$200/month), but it’s nice to know it exists. Who knows, with the rate of web bloat, maybe I’ll eventually need it…

It is an opinion, but it doesn’t drive additional discussion so it should just be put into the post body.

I would only top comment on a post I made if I’m asking a question and want to provide my own answer for discussion’s sake.

Nothing, but laughing at your own jokes is a bit… odd.

If I comment on my own post, it’s because I have an opinion about it that I want separated from the post to have a separate thread of discussion. This isn’t that.

That also fits for Linux, and Linux often comes with much more capable text editors. If you want an awesome text editor, Linux is your friend.

That said, if you just want a basic text editor (which I’m guessing is 99% of people), Notepad works.

I’ve used it. Just use vim in WSL instead…

I found it useful occasionally for a pretty niche use case. I automated generating documents with a program I wrote, then cleaned it up a bit in Wordpad before sending it on.

That’s about as niche as you can get, but I wonder if it’s not too uncommon. RTF is easy to generate programmatically, and it’s pretty widely supported across various platforms. I have since moved on, but maybe others haven’t.

But will they test for longevity as well? Or just safety?

As long as it’s not going to fry my phone, I’ll probably give it a shot, but it may still be a better deal to pay a bit more somewhere else.

Huh, looks like iOS overtook Android sometime last year…

The second one does, here’s a quote:

More basic items come directly from suppliers to skip the design and conception stage. However, it isn’t as easy as picking out items from a catalog. IKEA works with their world-class buyers to check the quality of the products and negotiate the price.

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This means that they have to keep their shelves stocked with products to keep up with demand, so using both manufacturers and supplies ensures that new products will consistently make a turnaround.

I would assume a USB charger would fall under the “more basic items” part.

I take this to mean that instead of designing a product to be manufactured elsewhere, they sometimes buy products to relabel and put on the shelves, without going through any form of design process (though I’m guessing they do test this stuff).

Anker. Here’s one example listing on Amazon.

I’ve had a good experience with their other products.

Yeah, if I can use it with just HDMI/DisplayPort and a remote and have no WiFi capability whatsoever, that’s what I’m looking for. Ideally, it would have lots of ports (like >4) and not much else.

I’d really like 4k resolution, but I don’t care about the rest of the features modern TVs have, and I can live without OLED. Our current TV (55"-ish) has 4k and I can still see pixels when somewhat close (like 5 feet away), so I don’t really want to go down much in resolution when going up in size.

I just don’t know much about the commercial offerings, so I’ll have to ask around.

Right, but no large displays AFAIK. I go to them for small electronics and parts, but I didn’t see anything about a 60"+ display.

My work laptop (MacBook) is ~100W charging, but only ~5A at ~20V, and ~3A at anything under 20V.

I’m guessing phones with super fast charging work similarly.

So electrical fires and melting/burning plastic agent a concern?

I’m guessing IKEA will actually test these, so yeah, maybe safety isn’t as large if a concern. But I’m definitely not bullish on long term reliability.

Yup, I even saw a 2-pack from a reputable brand for $15.

My wife still likes to go, and now we mostly buy the higher end stuff because we like the design and hate the hassle of other furniture retailers with sales people and whatnot.

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Only this one had public product listings for large displays, and they were all 1080p (hoping for 4k, don’t need QLED or OLED). That can maybe work, but I’d need to login to see prices, which is kind of annoying.

I’ll ask around though. My company has several large screens, so I can probably ask where we get them from. However, they’re often for conference rooms, so I’m guessing they’re pretty expensive since they integrate with other expensive conferencing equipment.

Thanks for the tip, I’ll take a look. I’ve mostly been looking at the typical tech shops (Newegg, Best Buy, etc), and they’re all smart crap.

Edit: I took a look, and it seems prices aren’t generally available online. Is that common, or do you have recommendations for distributors to look for?

Huh, I haven’t had issues at all. I have a USB hub with 100W PD and HDMI, and it’s been working fine for almost 3 years now on my MacBook. I also have a battery bank from them and it’s fine, though I’ve only used it like 3-4 times over the few years I’ve had it (just use it for travel as a backup plan). I recently got A surge protector/power strip thing from them as well (pretty recent, like 2 months).

I went with them because of good reviews on Reddit and tech review sites, and the few low reviews on Amazon were easy to chalk up to random QC issues (every product will have some bad ones ship), but the customer support seemed decent from the reviews I read.

Have you ruled out bad cables and your Dell sucking?

I think I’ll look up some tear downs next time though. Good brands can absolutely go bad, so it would be good to see if that has happened here. Unfortunately, the charger landscape is mostly full of Chinese crap that I don’t expect to work properly on day 1, much less after a year or two.

A lot of the stuff you recycle doesn’t actually get recycled, at least in the US. I just got a new fridge and they carried old one away for me, but I’m pretty sure they just take it to the dump and the thing that’s recycled is the refrigerant.

I’m a huge fan of recycling, but I don’t think we actually process most of the recycling we have, so we should be focusing more on things lasting longer. Phones have kind of plateaued, so they should have longer support cycles, better repairability, and smoother resale.