Sony WF-C700N. I’ve had my pair for a long time and I wore them on an Interrailing holiday, which included two days of cross-country hiking in Finnmark. In Northern Norway. In February. Not -40°C, admittedly, but below -20°C. They worked a treat and both have big, clicky physical buttons that are easy to use even through a hat, a thick scarf and gloves.

Also, one of the reasons the EU waited for USB-C is that it specifically supports Alt Mode, which allows non-USB-standard protocols - like this new video connector thing - to be encapsulated within it.

The whole point of USB-C is that it’s a standardised connector that allows anyone to shoehorn their own protocol down it if they want using Alt Mode. Moreover, they can do that without breaking compatibility with other USB-C - or even just specific features - if one of the devices doesn’t speak their crazy-ass moon protocols. This is a benefit of USB-C, not a failing.

Graphics cards come with as many ports as the manufacturer wants them to. My home PC’s GPU has two HDMI and two MiniDisplayPort. Also, there are cheap lossless adapters that will convert between MiniDisplayPort, DisplayPort, HDMI, DVI, etc, etc.

I disagree with the more than 4K being a theoretical need thing but, regardless, where I work, every desk has a pair of 4K monitors that connect to the user’s laptop via a single USB-C cable. That cable also connects a keyboard, mouse, gigabit ethernet and, depending on the desk, 10Gb ethernet, multiple cameras and conference audio. The cable also charges the laptop, of course. At the moment that’s mostly done using USB-C docking stations, but we’ve started to deploy monitors that are USB-C native and can be daisychained together.

In case anyone is wondering, yes, this is utter nonsense. The EU made USB-C mandatory only as a charger for portable devices like phones, tablets, headphones and mice. That’s all. This new standard, unwelcome as it is, has nothing to do with charging phones so there’s no reason why it can’t be used in the EU.

But let’s not allow measley facts get in the way of having a moan at nothing, shall we? Fucking EU. Forcing us to [checks notes] charge all out things using a single connector, reducing e-waste, and, uh, ensuring there’s lots of futureproofing built-in. BASTARDS.

Wait until they’re not looking to put on the wig. Otherwise it’s kinda a bit weird.

Gary forgot the five Ibuprofen.

You eat cigarettes?

Holy shit. I just got back from a more civilised country and while I was there I bought a family-sized bag of shallot flavour Brets crisps. “I’ll just try one,” I thought. Did I nail that entire bag in the car park? Why, I do believe I did.

Something, something, neighbour’s lawn, sprinkler, something.

Regarding the soap thing, your Bob should have come with a refillable cartridge that you can put your own detergent into and it’ll dose it out automatically for each wash.

Some more:

• Smoking while observing a sheep.
• Smoking on the dancefloor at the hippest discotheque in town.
• Smoking while threading the film into the stedicam rig on the set of the Stanley Kubrick film The Shining (1980).
• Smoking while performing open-heart surgery.
• Smoking while restarting the computers at the dinosaur park.
• Smoking while Niel and Buzz are down on the surface.
• Offering a cigarette to a dodo
• Stubbing out your cigarette after filling in a form which asks for your date of birth which is the 7th August 1968.

“Cats can keep secrets, but choose not to. Change my mind.”

Please don’t work yourself into living a lie, the longer it lasts the harder it is both to maintain and unravel. My drinking buddies still think I’m the Vice President of Northern Macedonia’s body double. I mean, they’ve had three elections since then.

Yeah, but some people shit thrice daily.

In seriousness, though, one of these type of sites looked like a scam but they warned me that my Driver Registry needed defragmentation to avoid WiFi Corruption and had a free download to fix it so, y’know, swings and roundabouts.

Yeah, but I’ve not got two hundred Firefox tabs open on Voyager.

The 10Gb is full duplex, so you can transfer at the full 10Gb though that is split between upload and download. These and the kind of ‘problems’ I wish I had to consider.

The idea is that you use the 10Gb port as a trunk, then you use your switch to split it into separate physical ports using VLANs.