Post AMBY5EPBuUQdDJb2eW by suetanvil@mastodon.technology
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(DIR) Post #AM9gyg37F7DSC6IhZA by CarlCravens@mastodon.xyz
2022-08-03T15:42:57Z
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I lament this age of laptops without proper network jacks.
(DIR) Post #AM9h3tWiYrodRRdP3A by silverseams@mastodon.art
2022-08-03T15:43:52Z
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@CarlCravens I have the adapter on my list for next Microcenter visit. Can't believe we don't already own one.
(DIR) Post #AM9hN6XyNPUVKENirI by neglesaks@mstdn.io
2022-08-03T15:47:22Z
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@CarlCravens Me too. I recently had one of those 'alligator' RJ-45 ports break on an HP laptop, cannot seat the cable reliably anymore. Bah!
(DIR) Post #AM9mT9FNkYctCxO3qi by godtributes@botsin.space
2022-08-03T16:43:07Z
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@CarlCravens LAMENTS FOR THE LAMENT GOD
(DIR) Post #AMBY5EPBuUQdDJb2eW by suetanvil@mastodon.technology
2022-08-04T13:12:41Z
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@CarlCravens I'm surprised that nobody has done Ethernet through the USB-C.(Actually, more seriously, I'm genuinely surprised that nobody's come up with an alternative smaller Ethernet jack that fits on the knife-edge of a modern laptop.)
(DIR) Post #AMC3Pzfuy8gWBmnh0y by silverseams@mastodon.art
2022-08-04T13:22:05Z
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@suetanvil @CarlCravens I guess the old-school minimalist ones are out of fashion now?
(DIR) Post #AMC3Q09hBQVJg8jTQe by brennen@federation.p1k3.com
2022-08-04T14:24:45Z
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@silverseams @suetanvil @CarlCravens i don't know if i ever actually broke one of those, but i always _felt_ like i was going to break them
(DIR) Post #AMC3Q0W1qOMunPBJEu by CarlCravens@mastodon.xyz
2022-08-04T19:03:47Z
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@brennen @silverseams @suetanvil Same. That always felt like a "I am in a hotel for a couple days and need to read my email" connector and not "I am going to plug this thing in when I get to my desk every day."
(DIR) Post #AMC3V2sUULilZQ5eZE by CarlCravens@mastodon.xyz
2022-08-04T19:04:44Z
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@silverseams @suetanvil I think maybe manufacturers figured out we don't want something so fragile. Or they just figured out that _everything_ is now a dongle, so we can just buy a dongle. (I bought a dongle.)
(DIR) Post #AMC4CnvTRN7lwJLqNM by idlestate@toot.cat
2022-08-04T19:12:36Z
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@CarlCravens @silverseams @suetanvil The age of laptop network jacks turned out to be surprisingly short.My first laptop had ... a PCMCIA slot and maybe a phone jack? (I'm holding "network" here to mean Ethernet & not PSTN)I'd say it was broadly a thing for maybe ... 15 years?
(DIR) Post #AMC4SrghDr6qEu66ca by CarlCravens@mastodon.xyz
2022-08-04T19:15:32Z
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@idlestate @silverseams @suetanvil That's right, early on we had to use PCMCIA cards to get network connections. Which, of course, had a dongle or flimsy pop-out connector for the RJ11 connector. Depending on a USB dongle is just going back to our roots.
(DIR) Post #AMCBcqQVSvDku3EMam by A0bMJlR1vXmshMJTm4.pagrus@tears.intherain.club
2022-08-04T20:35:44Z
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@CarlCravens @idlestate @silverseams @suetanvil Once again, Apple is ahead of the curve, nary a RJ45 in sight for... years? I also got a dongle, but it has USB-A and HDMI in addition to RJ45
(DIR) Post #AMD8kQrf1vhhpnxGVc by godtributes@botsin.space
2022-08-05T07:36:50Z
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@CarlCravens DONGLES FOR THE DONGLE GOD! BUYS FOR THE BUY GOD