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minus-squareAClassyGentleman@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoSituation: There are 20 screw standards. John Corporate: “20 standards… I know, I’ll create a new type of screw that will be unique to my corporate overlords and prevent users from repairing their own devices!” Situation: There are 21 screw standards.
minus-squarejxk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoTo be fair, UTF-8 did win the character encoding wars. Kudos to the Unicode designers I guess.
minus-squareXanvial@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoUSB also won the cable data war. The 2000s era cables is wild
Situation: There are 20 screw standards.
John Corporate: “20 standards… I know, I’ll create a new type of screw that will be unique to my corporate overlords and prevent users from repairing their own devices!”
Situation: There are 21 screw standards.
Relevant xkcd:
To be fair, UTF-8 did win the character encoding wars. Kudos to the Unicode designers I guess.
USB also won the cable data war. The 2000s era cables is wild
Wish Windows knew that