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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Anything non-portable that you plug in to a computer with a USB-A connection is supposed to have a USB-B on the other end if the cable is removable.

I have a lot of music gear with USB-B connectors on them

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And then you have the cursed non standard USB A to USB A

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

My cheap knockoff elgato has that and it still creeps me out when I use it lol.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same. Music gear (although my recent stuff has started going C), printers and scanners since USB became a standard, older networking hardware, older external hard drives (most of them before USB 3.0), and every piece of medical equipment I've ever dealt with. It was ubiquitous from the time USB started in the 90s until USB C got popular after 2014.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

until USB C got popular after 2014

Nonono, USB-C isn't over a decade old.....

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[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well, the good news is that it wasn't really popular in 2014. It probably didn't become popular until about 7-8 years ago and that was thanks to smartphones.

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Nexus 6P had it in 2015. Samsung was one of the last to switch over, and they still did in 2017. I'd say closer to 9 years ago.

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

You're right as far as devices go, I was just adding a year or two because most people don't switch phones immediately at release.

The other side of that is I'm probably a little biased because I was using the weird usb-b 3.0 micro connector (the long ass one) until a couple of years ago on external drives until it got too painful to open up my sample libraries on spinning platters.

So maybe 9 years ago and my view is colored? Or between 7 and 9 years ago depending on how you're measuring popularity?

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

Yeah my 2021 hearing aids were microusb and that's late enough I was annoyed but not surprised. I'm due for a new pair this year and they better be C.