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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Which ‘port designed by Apple’? Apple's Lightning is quite obviously more sturdy than usb-c, being just a puck with contacts, put into a hole with contacts and without flimsy plastic tongues. However, Lightning is more costly to produce, while afaik USB was always made from cheap sheet metal.

Though you might mean Thunderbolt, since afaik usb-c is made to be able to carry Thunderbolt. Not sure if that involved more than electrical concerns, however.

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The moving parts are in the device rather than the cable with Lightning. The tongue on USB-C is required to be deep enough that you can't torque it with the cable during insertion/removal.

It's not an obvious comparison, but the mechanical engineers where I work seem to have a mild preference for USB-C

The expensive part of both is that you need a microcontroller in the cable

USB-C also has way more pins for data/power

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

By 'moving parts' you mean the springed contacts? Yeah wow, that's a lot of movement.

USB-C has more pins because it was made later and is required to carry standards like Displayport and Thunderbolt. If Apple made Lightning 2, nothing prevents them from slapping more contacts on it.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

USB-C (top) is based on the Cinema Display power connector (bottom) from the early 2000s:

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Interesting, but odd that it's the first I've ever heard of this.