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Weekly Ramblecast 172: Typing With Your Thumbs
🕑 Added 2024-09-24 13:00:10 +0000 UTCThis week: it's past time to purge the old cables, everything runs on USB-C now, text messages are about to get a little fancier, the kids love old Game Boy games, why you probably don't need that fancy anniversary-edition console, scary movie season starts early, and more!
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:13) Vinny has expunged the tech talk
(00:02:09) Or not
(00:05:07) Vinny's System™
(00:06:48) Everything runs on USB-C
(00:21:23) To-do lists never seem to get shorter
(00:25:20) Put a computer on your wrist!
(00:33:30) Typing with your thumbs
(00:39:18) Lotta PlayStation preorders this week
(00:50:04) Analogue Pocket in the house
(00:55:04) Scary movies starting early this year
(01:03:16) Content update and bye!
Comments
swiftdraw
USB-C’s primacy, I think, has primarily to do with the EU’s e-waste laws. From the EU Parliament website: “By the end of 2024, all mobile phones, tablets and cameras sold in the EU will have to be equipped with a USB Type-C charging port.”
