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'Plugspreading' is an Abomination (cnet.com)
Mark Serrels, writing for CNET: A man [on a train], a human man as he lives and breathes, has put his bag, his stupid goddamn bag on the seat. He thinks his bag is more important than your buttcheeks. Than your tired legs. He is undermining your right to rest those legs, to plank those weary buttcheeks on a seat. This train is busy. He is a bad person. He doesn't care. This is a metaphor. In this metaphor the terrible man-person is a tech company. The bag is their terrible plug. A plug that is not content with taking up one slot on your powerboard, but needs two. Not for power, oh no. It just wants the space to... christ, I don't know. Mess with your day? Piss you off? Make your life worse? Stop you from plugging an extra device into your powerboard for no goddamn reason. Jesus wept. I call this phenomenon "plugspreading" and it's an abomination. [...] This is bad behaviour. This is a problem. That second socket was innocent man, it was collateral damage. He did nothing to deserve this. You ruined its life, starved that socket of its purpose, its reason for existing. Plugspreading is everywhere. It's a disease.
Goddamnit, Jim - if you engage in topical responses they will post more of this shite.
Complaints, only, man.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
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. Of course you can fix it. I can take the damn power supplies apart and internally connect longer wires and re-encase the transformers if I wanted to. I don't want to. I want to buy a power connector that takes these things into proper consideration. I shouldn't have to work around it. Somewhere, there was somebody actually "PAID" to "DESIGN" this crap. Don't you think they should be held accountable for their incompetence?
Whoa. No more coffee for you today.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
[ Sigh... (a) Why is this a story and (b) Why is this a story on /. ? ]
*cough*msmash*cough*
Do you have ESP?
I call it "videospreading". Useless auto-playing videos that nobody cares about, wasting bandwidth that could have been used by something worthwhile.
#DeleteFacebook
The solution is simple. Plug in a 6-port power strip, then plug in 6 more 6-port power strips to that. Then plug in 36 space heaters. Problem solved!
You'd need wires the size of small tree trunks to keep the resistive losses under control.
Not always, just for most places.
In California where you may only have two rooms in your home total, you could likely get away with wires only as thick as your arm.
Going more than about 50 feet of course would be about as thick as a chunky leg, and 100 feet would need the tree trunk tick wiring.
Not sure what rich people would do in their mansions. Probably a kitten burning generator in each room or something...
The problem comes down to economics. You're buying a device that requires DC power, and the manufacturer is not going to decide the converter; it is going to choose an existing DC converter and supply it with the device. They might put a sticker on it. The socket-friendly option would cost a dollar or two more, which, when included in the Amazon price, just might give the competing device the edge. You and the other buyers didn't research the socket friendliness of the device, and there would be little opportunity for the manufacturer to convey this advantage in the first place.
What incentive does the manufacturer have to improving products this way? Not enough to add $1 to the price. So there you have it.
BTW, the article was incoherent. Let me coin the term "blogspreading" to refer to an article that takes up space and makes you spend more time than necessary to figure out what it's talking about.
This whole article shows us what happens when #nerdrage meets #metoo and #SJW.
Plugspreading? Stop Nerdsplainin.
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
#metoo
Am I the only one that reads this as "pound-me-too"?
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.