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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink22•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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink19•1 year agoTo be fair, UTF-8 did win the character encoding wars. Kudos to the Unicode designers I guess.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink15•1 year agoUSB also won the cable data war. The 2000s era cables is wild
minus-squareTheSaneWriterlinkfedilink2•1 year agoYeah, given enough time sometimes one of the standards will win and kill the others, it kinda just depends (in part on luck)
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
Yeah, given enough time sometimes one of the standards will win and kill the others, it kinda just depends (in part on luck)
Wish Windows knew that