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How *in* *the* *world* is that 'late stage capitalism? From where I sit humans have been doing jobs exactly like this for a very long time. We call them assembly line/factory workers. They do one task over and over and get modestly for it. "late stage" would indicate that this is a recent thing near the death throws of what is going on. It is not. It can only be what you are thinking if you IGNORE 150 years of the since the start of the industrial revolution.

I propose that you re-think how you talk and what words you use. Perhaps read a bit of history. You will probably find it quite fascinating that people treat other shitty all the time. They have been for a long time. You may find the industrial revolution quite fascinating. Much of what happened there continues to this day. It got so bad we invented laws to curb the abuses. Some countries flirted with communism and socialism to combat the abuses and found it a neat way to exterminate well over 100 million people and centrally abuse people. If you want to see what an anti capitalistic society would comprise of I suggest this book. https://www.amazon.com/Gulag-A... This dude lived it for most of his life.

in the 1950s
https://www.amazon.com/crossin...

Difference is, the muslims will kill you. The christians will bring round coffee and donuts.

The ones that raised me might beat the shit out of you in god's name, or the men of gawd, who deliver his holy word might butt fuck you or want you to help Father O'Malley in the special sacrament of helping him make white wee-wee. Though perhaps they hand out donuts afterward.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://www.amazon.com/Train-U... The official beat your child to death or you hate them guidebook

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Religion is a cancer, and much evil is performed in the name of gawd. So don't get all uppity about how good the Christians are. Muslims are worse, but The people of jeebuz have their own list of fun times they deliver in the name of the gawd that commands them.

It's probably ok. At least, anything encrypted with the new algorithms is ok. If you want to steal someone's bitcoins, yeah, go ahead.

Power Squid.

https://smile.amazon.com/Accel...

Immermann argued:

I don't believe only the wealthy would be interested - but that only the wealthy would be able to afford a private police force sufficiently dedicated to their job to do any good.

Look, the notion that a purely libertarian human society could ever exist for longer than say, six weeks or so (by which I mean, "just long enough for its inhabitants to begin acting like normal human beings"), aside, the model upon which you seen to be predicating your statement appears to disregard the reality that private, first-responder companies (the classic example being volunteer fire departments) have been formed to provide their services to subscribers for the past several millenia, at least.

You want protection from fires? Hire the local fire department to respond to them when you call. Pay extra, and you get a guaranteed response time, with specified financial penalties for failing to get their engine to your door within that time. And the same, I'm certain, would occur with police service in this theoretical society. Want protection from crime on the street? Hire one of the local security companies to patrol your neighborhood. They're pretty sure to offer premium protection services, too, but I'm dead certain they'd provide a basic, minimum level of protection against street crime within their service area as a subscription service.

(However, right about there, we find ourselves facing one of points where human rights smack head-first into the ideals of the libertarian society, because now we need a justice system to deal with captured miscreants. Without it, you leave the question of their dispositon to the whim of the captors - i.e. the police - or their subscribers, depending on what their contract specifies. There'd be no institutional, societally-mediated process for determining their guilt or innocence without imposing some form of government on the humans who live there, so where does that leave you, if you find yourself wrongly accused? Tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail, if you leave it up to a jury of the local residents who want to participate. If the police decide, you'd likely be robbed of the personal property you're carrying, beaten to a pulp, and dumped at the edge of town. Or just shot.)

Anyway, I'm just sayin' ...

(Posting as AC only so as not to undo prior upmods in this thread.)

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I don't know if this is the one I own, but with these no device can Plugspread on me. https://www.amazon.com/Splitte... I have something like this under my desk, I need to put one in a couple other rooms

I really like these, also a bit more expensive, but which have a passthrough outlet.

That's not a solution. That's a work-around to design that does not bother to take even the slightest consideration of actual usage.

Try the Power Squid.

Here's the solution: Outlet Extender/Outlet Saver/Power Extension Cable - 10 Pack

Plug one of these into an outlet or power strip, and then plug the wall wart into the other end.

I keep one in my backpack, a few in my desk at work, and several spares at home.

--To which I reply, why wait?? Especially if you have Prime:

https://www.amazon.com/ClearMa...

OMG! Too bad there's *no* way to solve this problem.

[ Sigh... (a) Why is this a story and (b) Why is this a story on /. ? ]

https://www.amazon.com/Etekcit... Like these ones, as a simple example.

These things (or other similar ones by other companies) are a godsend, even if they are somewhat overpriced. I must have 30 or 40 of them in my house.

You can also get long power bars with as many as ten outlets that are well spaced - enough to permit use of most wall wart-type plugs without needing these cords.

5 acres is generally considered enough for a large family and to still have something left to sell. ( that was the 'standard' during the american land rush as well as I recall')

https://www.amazon.com/Five-Ac...

Which book?

Perhaps this book

https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-...
"Walker explains "how a good night's shut-eye can make us cleverer, more attractive, slimmer, happier, healthier, and ward off cancer.""

I'm about a third of the way through the book so far and it is just amazing. I will never take sleep for granted again.

Essentially, our brains are overclocked for high performance of a certain kind during the day and almost everyone absolutely need eight or so hours of good sleep each and every night for the brain to recover and stay healthy. (There is a very tiny number -- much less than 1% -- of people with a genetic mutation that lets them get by on less sleep.)

As one example, during the day, new factual information is stored in the hippocampus and then when you go to sleep NREM sleep moves the data to other part of the brain for long term storage. So, if you don't sleep enough that night, you lose much of those memories. Sleeping more a day or two later will never bring those memories back.

As another example, I just read today about how glial cells shrink during sleep so fluid can bathe the adjacent neurons and then the glial cells can remove toxic waste products that can lead to Alzheimer's.

He explains how drowsy driving causes more accidents and worse ones than drunk driving.

He also talks about how caffeine blocks receptors in the brain for adenosine (which causes "sleep pressure"). While caffeine may make it possible for people to get by with less sleep for a time, such users will still miss out on all the other health-giving parts of sleep as above -- and more, including greater creativity like from dreams.

That said, I'd add, for some people, coffee beans are the only beans they consume and in general eating beans and the phytonutrients they contain is health promoting. So, for some people, the health benefits of drinking coffee bean juice may outweigh issues of caffeine. But, there are lots of other beans people can eat that don't have caffeine in them.
https://well.blogs.nytimes.com...

So, bravo for making a great choice and sticking with it through caffeine withdrawal and into a healthier life.

See also in general:
http://web.archive.org/web/201...
"Tragically, most people are totally unaware that they are only a few weeks of discipline away from being able to comfortably maintain healthful dietary habits -- and to keep away from the products that can result in the destruction of their health."

And what is he in prison for? Absolutely NOTHING related to the campaign. Mueller is trying to extort him into giving any bogus information he can use. This is nothing new to Mueller, considering his team had no problem convincing the contractor in the Ted Stephens case to commit perjury to get a a conviction against Stephens. Mueller is a low-life slime with a track record of illegal behavior and being overturned by the courts. Read Licensed to Lie from 2014 to see the truth about the man you're holding up as the white hat. Considering it was written back in 2014 even you can't claim it is fake reporting from a Trump supporter.

Here is my bit of wisdom. Get everything running locally in a cloud container framework like Heroku or whichever on you prefer. When and if you get to the point where you need disaster recovery or more scalability you can shift everything to the cloud until you recovery or at peak periods load balance to the cloud.

The cloud is not magic. It just means that other systems administrators are running your servers and they do screw up quite often.

If you are really serious about running in the cloud and having high reliability, let me introduce chaos monkey
https://github.com/Netflix/cha...

This is what Netflix uses to make sure that they can keep running with Amazon availability zones, instances, or whatever they call them disappear. I believe that the day that Amazon accidentally took all of it's storage offline and killed half their cloud, that Netflix survived as was able to keep going.

Read this for amusement: https://aws.amazon.com/message...

Ooops, we deleted AWS....

Seconded. I bought 2 Trackball Explorers in 2004, and both still work well in daily use. The combination of finger ball, thumb wheel, thumb buttons, and handrest are nearly unique. If/when one of those dies, I'll have to try something from ELECOM or check the state of the incomplete GameBall.

I'd prefer a resurrected Trackball Explorer.

Seconded. I bought 2 Trackball Explorers in 2004, and both still work well in daily use. The combination of finger ball, thumb wheel, thumb buttons, and handrest are nearly unique. If/when one of those dies, I'll have to try something from ELECOM or check the state of the incomplete GameBall.

I'd prefer a resurrected Trackball Explorer.

I do miss the visceral feel of turning the page of a book [from a Kindle]

Then just pack a single good, real book with your ebook. When the urge hits while reading the Kindle, take out the physical book and slowly rub and turn the pages, perhaps occasionally glancing at the Kindle. When it subsides, return where you left off.

As a side node, there was a 50 year old cryptography book at the local library. It was neat, it was understandable, it had heavy pages and (of all things) it smelled wonderful. I checked it out for 2 weeks at a time for like 3x per year for years, then suddenly it was gone. I've always assumed someone swiped it and paid the minor fine, although it might have ended up on the yearly book sale. I have way too many books already, but I still wish I had THAT particular one.

I do still have a near virgin onion-skinned CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 57th Edition (1975) with over 2,000 pages (random used link.) Constants and trig functions don't change values THAT often. Foo, I say FOO on your HP calculators and slide-rulers!

The new 'Classic Intell[i]Mouse' for 2018

The FA mentions at the end that the mouse is available direct from Microsoft, and the MS page gives the part number as HDQ-00001. But that part number is also available from Amazon, which says, "Date First Available: October 16, 2017".

In fact, I have one of them; Amazon tells me that I "purchased this item on March 11, 2018". I like the mouse a lot: it's corded, the BlueTrack sensor works well, and I like the shape. It's a good mouse, but it's not all that new.

P.S. I also like the Microsoft Sculpt Comfort Bluetooth Mouse for a Bluetooth mouse. It's not a miniature "laptop" mouse, but I use it with my laptop... I had a small laptop mouse for a while, but prefer the feel of the larger mouse. Gotta say, MS still makes good mice (and keyboards).

Are you insane? I regularly use a mouse with 13 buttons and only very rarely accidentally hit one.

Amateur. I couldn't use anything less than my 18 button mouse.

Left right scroll is enough, most other buttons are accidentally triggered and can slow you down.

Are you insane? I regularly use a mouse with 13 buttons and only very rarely accidentally hit one.

For gaming it's absolutely better. And for regular work, being able to set up common tasks as simply a button click is super helpful.

If you're referring to the December 1988 issue of Playboy, you can buy a copy right now on Amazon for $7.74 with shipping. https://www.amazon.com/Playboy...

Where can I get 277.8KWh for $3? Can I see that study? Please?

One of these sitting in the sun for several hundred years should do the trick.

I did blow the budget by 20%, but you know how it goes for these big energy projects.

Considering that one of his collections was titled Angry Candy, I'm sure he went to be angry and arrived in hell (or god-help-him, heaven) angry.

I've got everything he ever had published, except for one piece published in a 1988 Playboy (and I'll never forgive my ex for throwing that one away) and one issue of his short-lived comic.

You mean this one? :

https://www.amazon.com/Playboy... ...and these?

https://www.dccomics.com/searc... ..or is it the 5-issue "City on the Edge of Forever" Series? :

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=n...

Considering that one of his collections was titled Angry Candy, I'm sure he went to be angry and arrived in hell (or god-help-him, heaven) angry.

I've got everything he ever had published, except for one piece published in a 1988 Playboy (and I'll never forgive my ex for throwing that one away) and one issue of his short-lived comic.

You mean this one? :

https://www.amazon.com/Playboy... ...and these?

https://www.dccomics.com/searc... ..or is it the 5-issue "City on the Edge of Forever" Series? :

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=n...

The English language is VERY complex, and the additional rules governing its basic means of communication (governing its representations, and what the individual combinations are) can be somewhat arbitrary.

There are over 100 basic concepts in its functional taxonomic hierarchy, and a large number of manners of syntactic use that are caused by them, MOST of which are NOT RECOGNISED FOR WHAT THEY ARE AT THIS TIME, and for a good reason, which is what I'm working on atm..

Did you not realize there's a spec for the English language? Sure, it's not a normative spec, since there's no governing body (unlike French), but every rule and every exception to every rule is listed in detail.

Take a look at it and give yourself a treat.

Think about what you said, because logically by your argument how do you know that you are seeing reality as it really is

Logically it does since people who replied claimed that the press is NOT an arm of big business but yet the press IS a fucking corporation, that's retard level of perceptual breakdown of these peoples brains. It also proves they've never opened a history book in their life. When you or anyone replies to my post I can immediately spot how ignorant you are and whether you know any history at all or have even opened a history book.

If corporations would do the below, what else might they do? But that might offend your political beliefs.

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]

"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

From war is a racket:

http://www.amazon.com/War-Rack...

On the corporate state"

https://youtu.be/CvZRsdHgxgA?t...

You seem to be implying that the situation is so horrible already that abandoning any and all pretense of institutional norms is a distinction without a difference.

Not even close.

Except I can tell you the facts and you won't reason to the right conclusion, your brain does not see reality as it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Don't think the upper business class is at war with the bottom 90 of the population? See here, former national security advisor of the united states, calling people like you (average citizen) a menace...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Quote from - Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era:

https://www.amazon.com/Between...

"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."

Books by Zbigniew Brezinski (former national security advisor of the US).

The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives

https://www.amazon.com/Grand-C...

You seem to be implying that the situation is so horrible already that abandoning any and all pretense of institutional norms is a distinction without a difference.

Not even close.

Except I can tell you the facts and you won't reason to the right conclusion, your brain does not see reality as it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Don't think the upper business class is at war with the bottom 90 of the population? See here, former national security advisor of the united states, calling people like you (average citizen) a menace...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Quote from - Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era:

https://www.amazon.com/Between...

"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."

Books by Zbigniew Brezinski (former national security advisor of the US).

The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives

https://www.amazon.com/Grand-C...

Nvidia downgrades the independent press into a marketing tool.

Nvidia will be the envy of all other companies.

The press has always been an arm of big business, this is nothing new.

Education as ignorance

https://chomsky.info/warfare02...

Manufacturing consent (book)

http://www.amazon.com/Manufact...

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://vimeo.com/39566117

Testing theories of representative government

https://scholar.princeton.edu/...

Here are the prices for Amazon cloud storage. Depending on the type of storage, it ranges from $0.025 to $0.125 per GB per month. Yes, that's a lot more than buying a hard drive, but a huge stack of hard drives is pretty useless for storing lots of data. This gives immediate availability to all your data, backups, etc.

Let's say a company has 1 PB of data they need to store. Depending on the type of storage they need, that will cost between $25,000 and $125,000 per month. A 1% reduction in that cost could save them over $1000 per month, which is definitely meaningful.

Indeed Amazon uses Vertex:
https://sellercentral.amazon.c...

But they still have a lot of work to do in order to present data and store/process the results of the query. They also resell those services. So they may have the incentive to run their own system. It really depends on how reasonable the rates at Vertex are for an entity the size of Amazon.

They have been collecting sales taxes in every state for over a year.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/2...

Amazon already offers sales tax calculation services to marketplace sellers
https://sellercentral.amazon.c...

Bet they offer it to external ones too soon

A little Googling will help you find out more, but a good place to start is this book. https://www.amazon.com/Plague-...

Amazon has a 24 pack

This site seems to offer custom amounts. This model, or several others. They even have combination locks with custom master keys.

Musk is the Henry Ford of electric cars.

Have you tried an osmotic laxative consumed (entire thing) over the course of 3 hours along with a couple gallons of power aid or similar? I also have Chron's Disease and I had to take this last time I had an (emergency) colonoscopy. Something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Basic-C...

Be warned, it will shuttle every last bit of fluid you consume with it directly into your colon.

In the pissy little Salon article from 1999, sure.

Which is citing other authors and sources.

She did write one. You can go and read this for yourself.

Yes, I can go and read things like this:

"Ada Lovelace has sometimes been acclaimed as 'the world's first programmer' on the strength of her authorship of the notes to the Menabrea paper. This romantically appealing image is without foundation. All but one of the programs cited in her notes had been prepared by Babbage from three to seven years earlier. The exception was prepared by Babbage for her, although she did detect a 'bug' in it." -- Computing Before Computers

In articles about male scientific luminaries, they basically never lead with descriptions of fatherhood and family life. But when it's about a femal one, that's the first thing to come up. That makes the article seem very very biased from the otuset. It then goes on about affairs and whatnot. Who the fuck cares?

Ada was a socialite, not a "scientific luminary". So why are these mentions surprising to you? They're very relevant for her life in which math was more or less a privileged hobby.

"sparked by articles in The Wall Street Journal that raised questions about the company's technology and practices."

Those articles were written by John Carreyrou who is interviewed about Theranos by Nick Gillespie in this video. The video also provides a lot of background information. I was already familiar with the story but still found the video fascinating.

Additionally, Carreyrou has a new book out about Theranos, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup. Have not read that, but it gets 5/5 stars with currently 257 customer reviews at Amazon.

They speak English in Australia??

Nah, we stalk strine[1]

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[1] A homage to a book from the '60's .. LET STALK STRINE : A Lexicon of Modern Strine Usage

Those are helpful points.

In all the news about Hillary Clinton's email servers, I never saw ANYTHING that would indicate Hillary Clinton has any technical knowledge.

I think it is likely that technically-knowledgeable people like those who comment on Slashdot accidentally overestimate the technical knowledge of others. Possibilities:

1) Hillary plugged in her own email server and configured email accounts. (Makes me laugh.)

2) Someone arranged Hillary's office for her. Who has never been revealed, apparently.

I'm currently reading A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey.

Many people think the October 28, 2016 message from James Comey about Hillary's emails was enough to cause people to avoid voting for her. See the bottom third of page 197 for the beginning of his discussion of that.

To me, Comey seems like someone who realizes the importance of social sophistication, struggles for greater social understanding, but often does not deal well with social issues.

With Chrome you can use flash drives, your own "cloud" storage (ie Seafile, NextCloud, etc) or NAS. Personally, I need very little local storage on my Chromebook. I recommend using something like a very low profile USB drive. They aren't extremely high performance, but are plenty fast to stream music or movies, or copy documents back and forth. You can also leave it in the device for the most part because it barely protrudes from the side, and it's curved, so it doesn't catch on edges as easily getting it in and out of bags.

But if your laptop supports it, MicroSD cards are a great option as well.

My last Chromebook was an Acer Chromebook 14 that has an all aluminum chassis, 14" IPS (!) display and a nice, huge trackpad, and also had 4GB of RAM and a quad core Celeron. And it cost me $275, it's even a little less expensive now. I've had it for well over a year. I can't imagine why anyone would choose this device. Maybe the tablet functionality? I certainly have no interest in that, personally.

All dead links... Not a surprise, really. But the fundamental question is WHY does he even NEED a dongle in the first place? Why not include a type A and HDMI connectors at a minimum? You don't get it...

Sorry, I obviously didn't copypasta them correctly, and then screwed up by not testing the result, sorry about that!

Here you go:

https://www.amazon.com/HyperDr...

https://www.amazon.com/VAVA-VA...

https://www.amazon.com/Adapter...

https://www.amazon.com/UGREEN-...

As to why Apple "Can't just put an Port on it?", the answer is likely that the internals are likely designed around using TB/USB-C, and, although it would likely just be an inexpensive chip and connector to offer a USB-A port, adding an additional HDMI port is far more involved, especially when all your PCIe lanes are already dedicated to USB-C/TB3 use.

You will notice that all of the Windows laptops that offer USB-C/TB3 (and there are many), that are based on the same series of CPUs, none of them offer FOUR USB-C/TB3 ports. Therefore, they give up a LOT of I/O flexibility to expose a couple of Dedicated "Legacy" Ports. It is a short-sighted approach.

And, as I have said before, given the average lifespan of Macs, Apple's decision to go with "USB-C/TB3" will seem less and less "dumb" in a year or two, as the rest of the industry catches up (which they are OBVIOUSLY doing).

https://www.ultrabookreview.co...

Plus, Apple computer users are used to having to use an adapter for video for most of the designs. As for the "lack" of an HDMI output, only a very few Macs released in the past 5 years (and really, throughout their history) have had a directly-connectable video output. Whether it's ADC, MiniVGA, MiniDVI, MiniDisplayPort, or USB-C/TB3, Apple has usually elected to provide a multi-protocol video output, rather than having dedicated VGA/DVI/HDMI outputs. So, the continuation of that concept (that video connections require an interposing adapter) is certainly of no moment to 99.999% of experienced Mac users, and quite frankly, is becoming quite common many Windows laptops/tablets and AIOs, as well. So, you are definitely in the minority, there.

All dead links... Not a surprise, really. But the fundamental question is WHY does he even NEED a dongle in the first place? Why not include a type A and HDMI connectors at a minimum? You don't get it...

Sorry, I obviously didn't copypasta them correctly, and then screwed up by not testing the result, sorry about that!

Here you go:

https://www.amazon.com/HyperDr...

https://www.amazon.com/VAVA-VA...

https://www.amazon.com/Adapter...

https://www.amazon.com/UGREEN-...

As to why Apple "Can't just put an Port on it?", the answer is likely that the internals are likely designed around using TB/USB-C, and, although it would likely just be an inexpensive chip and connector to offer a USB-A port, adding an additional HDMI port is far more involved, especially when all your PCIe lanes are already dedicated to USB-C/TB3 use.

You will notice that all of the Windows laptops that offer USB-C/TB3 (and there are many), that are based on the same series of CPUs, none of them offer FOUR USB-C/TB3 ports. Therefore, they give up a LOT of I/O flexibility to expose a couple of Dedicated "Legacy" Ports. It is a short-sighted approach.

And, as I have said before, given the average lifespan of Macs, Apple's decision to go with "USB-C/TB3" will seem less and less "dumb" in a year or two, as the rest of the industry catches up (which they are OBVIOUSLY doing).

https://www.ultrabookreview.co...

Plus, Apple computer users are used to having to use an adapter for video for most of the designs. As for the "lack" of an HDMI output, only a very few Macs released in the past 5 years (and really, throughout their history) have had a directly-connectable video output. Whether it's ADC, MiniVGA, MiniDVI, MiniDisplayPort, or USB-C/TB3, Apple has usually elected to provide a multi-protocol video output, rather than having dedicated VGA/DVI/HDMI outputs. So, the continuation of that concept (that video connections require an interposing adapter) is certainly of no moment to 99.999% of experienced Mac users, and quite frankly, is becoming quite common many Windows laptops/tablets and AIOs, as well. So, you are definitely in the minority, there.

All dead links... Not a surprise, really. But the fundamental question is WHY does he even NEED a dongle in the first place? Why not include a type A and HDMI connectors at a minimum? You don't get it...

Sorry, I obviously didn't copypasta them correctly, and then screwed up by not testing the result, sorry about that!

Here you go:

https://www.amazon.com/HyperDr...

https://www.amazon.com/VAVA-VA...

https://www.amazon.com/Adapter...

https://www.amazon.com/UGREEN-...

As to why Apple "Can't just put an Port on it?", the answer is likely that the internals are likely designed around using TB/USB-C, and, although it would likely just be an inexpensive chip and connector to offer a USB-A port, adding an additional HDMI port is far more involved, especially when all your PCIe lanes are already dedicated to USB-C/TB3 use.

You will notice that all of the Windows laptops that offer USB-C/TB3 (and there are many), that are based on the same series of CPUs, none of them offer FOUR USB-C/TB3 ports. Therefore, they give up a LOT of I/O flexibility to expose a couple of Dedicated "Legacy" Ports. It is a short-sighted approach.

And, as I have said before, given the average lifespan of Macs, Apple's decision to go with "USB-C/TB3" will seem less and less "dumb" in a year or two, as the rest of the industry catches up (which they are OBVIOUSLY doing).

https://www.ultrabookreview.co...

Plus, Apple computer users are used to having to use an adapter for video for most of the designs. As for the "lack" of an HDMI output, only a very few Macs released in the past 5 years (and really, throughout their history) have had a directly-connectable video output. Whether it's ADC, MiniVGA, MiniDVI, MiniDisplayPort, or USB-C/TB3, Apple has usually elected to provide a multi-protocol video output, rather than having dedicated VGA/DVI/HDMI outputs. So, the continuation of that concept (that video connections require an interposing adapter) is certainly of no moment to 99.999% of experienced Mac users, and quite frankly, is becoming quite common many Windows laptops/tablets and AIOs, as well. So, you are definitely in the minority, there.