As a techie who understands that there are many different types of USB-C and HDMI cables depending on what you need to use it for, it's an incredible amount of effort to find the right thing to buy.
When you consider that most brick and mortar stores (I'm looking at you, Currys PC World) massively rip you off with £100+ gold plated HDMI cables, and the search results on Amazon are filled with knock-off Nigel rubbish (or worse, listings that out-right lie to you)... it's a total minefield!
Imagine what it's like for the average consumer! A complete disaster!
Especially tedious on Amazon when you have a seller list the same cable in various lengths. The reviews are all commingled, so you'll get plenty of valid five star reviews for the short cables while the long ones don't support the bandwidth.
And who knows how many reviews are from non-techies who are just getting a picture on the screen and leave a five star review without knowing / caring if they actually got HDR or not.
This would be difficult with HDMI cables – unlike USB-C, they’re not electronically marked.
Only HDMI 2.1 introduced link training (before that it was just the source picking a resolution that the sink supports and hoping for the best!), but even that is an end-to-end thing; the cable is not part of the conversation, so you wouldn’t know if the cable is bad or the socket/internal wiring beyond the cable on either side.
Oh, sorry, I thought this was in the sub thread about “why not mark cables in software”!
Fully agreed – the maximum supported data rate would be even more important to be printed on the cable for HDMI.
One reason I could see why manufacturers would be hesitant to do this is that some future improvements might not have higher requirements for cabling, so the printed data rate might be underselling actual capabilities.
I personally prefer the aesthetics of the white Amazon Basics [0] and/or Infinite Cables [1] hdmi 2.1b [2] 48gbps cables, but as long as they're certified and pass the totalphase cable test I guess it doesn't really matter
I hooked up a new monitor and had the hardest time trying to figure out why things weren't working. Finally swapped the HDMI cable and it worked perfectly. Gah.
It depends, you just need the right culture and management which respects and trusts the employees.
I love it, and my manager has never rejected a PTO request, it’s just a formality. I took more than the UK standard 25 days in my first year and we haven’t talked about PTO once.
In fact, sometimes people say stuff like “oh I’m gonna go to $place for two weeks and I’ll just work in the daytime and vacation in the evenings and weekend” and management will actively encourage just taking the time off and enjoying it, coming back refreshed instead.
I just don't store anything locally that I don't mind losing. If we are talking about software development then everything is tracked in git. If I'm still part way through some changes at the end of the day I will just `git commit -am "wip"` and push to a remote branch for safe keeping. Then you can rework the commit[s] locally before opening / flagging the PR for review.
Documents and stuff are all in google docs/drive or something like that, all my dotfiles / config is in a git repo. I even work like this on my personal machine which is also used for gaming. In case of failure I can just wipe the OS drive and start fresh without any worries.
>Documents and stuff are all in google docs/drive or something like that
There have been horror stories of people randomly loosing access to their Google account, probably because some automatic check decided that they violated some term of use. I see how convenient it is to work "in the cloud", but if those are important documents you should keep a local copy as well.
Yes, and/or a second copy mirrored to a completely different cloud provider that has no dependencies on your main provider. (Including login dependencies!)
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