#dongles โ Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dongles, aggregated by home.social.
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๐โจ A brave soul traded their shiny #Apple for a Lenovo #Chromebook and lived #to blog about it. Apparently, the world is dying to know how they survived the switch from overpriced fruit to bargain bin tech ๐โก๏ธ๐ป. Spoiler: It's less epic quest, more "I got tired of paying for #dongles." ๐
https://blog.johnozbay.com/i-left-apples-ecosystem-for-a-lenovo-chromebook-and-you-can-too.html #techswitch #bargainblogging #HackerNews #ngated -
๐โจ A brave soul traded their shiny #Apple for a Lenovo #Chromebook and lived #to blog about it. Apparently, the world is dying to know how they survived the switch from overpriced fruit to bargain bin tech ๐โก๏ธ๐ป. Spoiler: It's less epic quest, more "I got tired of paying for #dongles." ๐
https://blog.johnozbay.com/i-left-apples-ecosystem-for-a-lenovo-chromebook-and-you-can-too.html #techswitch #bargainblogging #HackerNews #ngated -
๐๐ผ๐ป๐ด๐น๐ฒ๐ ๐ผ๐บ ๐๐ฝ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฃ๐น๐ฎ๐ ๐ฑ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐น๐ผ๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ป: ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ถ๐ท๐ป ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐
Stap in je auto en CarPlay maakt direct verbinding met je iPhone. Dit zijn de beste dongles om je CarPlay draadloos te maken.
https://www.iculture.nl/deals/apple-carplay-draadloos-maken/
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๐๐ผ๐ป๐ด๐น๐ฒ๐ ๐ผ๐บ ๐๐ฝ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฃ๐น๐ฎ๐ ๐ฑ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐น๐ผ๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ป: ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ถ๐ท๐ป ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐
Stap in je auto en CarPlay maakt direct verbinding met je iPhone. Dit zijn de beste dongles om je CarPlay draadloos te maken.
https://www.iculture.nl/deals/apple-carplay-draadloos-maken/
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Our 2025 Top Gear Awards
Closing out the year with the teamโs picks for the best gear they reviewed across multiple categories in 2025.
Did your favorites make the grade? Find out in our Awards feature, now published on Headfonics!
https://headfonics.com/our-2025-top-gear-awards/
#audiophile #awards #newyear #headphones #earphones #amplifiers #dongles #streaming
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๐๐ค "If #Apple built a #factory, it wouldn't use a PLC?" Oh please, like Apple could build anything without a proprietary dongle and a $999 polishing cloth. ๐งผ๐ฑ Let's just hope the machines don't start accidentally FaceTiming each other. ๐๐
https://physical-ai.ghost.io/the-apple-factory-what-perfect-coordination-feels-like/ #PLC #Dongles #Humor #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated -
๐๐ค "If #Apple built a #factory, it wouldn't use a PLC?" Oh please, like Apple could build anything without a proprietary dongle and a $999 polishing cloth. ๐งผ๐ฑ Let's just hope the machines don't start accidentally FaceTiming each other. ๐๐
https://physical-ai.ghost.io/the-apple-factory-what-perfect-coordination-feels-like/ #PLC #Dongles #Humor #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated -
Apple. Nickels and dimes. Death by a thousand addons. #Dongles #Chargers
https://mastodon.social/@brianwicks/115378593617790150 -
#FreieSoftware in der #Schule:
#HDMI- #Dongles und eine drahtlose รbertragung
Etwas am anderen Ende des Raumes anzeigen und sich dennoch frei bewegen kรถnnen, das versprechen #HDMI_Dongles. Im Folgenden werde ich mich mit den mir zur Verfรผgung stehenden auseinandersetzen.
Dabei gibt es welche mit vielen Fรคhigkeiten wie die #ChromeCast-Reihe, den #Microsoft #Wireless #Adapter, #EZCast-Gerรคte oder auch ganz einfache wie das #Z100PLUS - fรผr wenig bis viel Geld.
https://gnulinux.ch/freie-software-in-der-schule-hdmi-dongles-und-eine-drahtlose-%C3%BCbertragung
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#FreieSoftware in der #Schule:
#HDMI- #Dongles und eine drahtlose รbertragung
Etwas am anderen Ende des Raumes anzeigen und sich dennoch frei bewegen kรถnnen, das versprechen #HDMI_Dongles. Im Folgenden werde ich mich mit den mir zur Verfรผgung stehenden auseinandersetzen.
Dabei gibt es welche mit vielen Fรคhigkeiten wie die #ChromeCast-Reihe, den #Microsoft #Wireless #Adapter, #EZCast-Gerรคte oder auch ganz einfache wie das #Z100PLUS - fรผr wenig bis viel Geld.
https://gnulinux.ch/freie-software-in-der-schule-hdmi-dongles-und-eine-drahtlose-%C3%BCbertragung
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๐ฝ๏ธ๐ Oh, #Apple, you delightful ๐๐ seller of #dongles and dreams! Your dramatic blunder with Severance's #editing promo is the perfect plot twist for the industry's most predictable #sitcom ๐ฌ๐. Remember, when it's too remote, desktop editors might just sever the connection!
https://tedium.co/2025/03/29/severance-apple-remote-editing-weirdness/ #Severance #Drama #HackerNews #ngated -
๐ฝ๏ธ๐ Oh, #Apple, you delightful ๐๐ seller of #dongles and dreams! Your dramatic blunder with Severance's #editing promo is the perfect plot twist for the industry's most predictable #sitcom ๐ฌ๐. Remember, when it's too remote, desktop editors might just sever the connection!
https://tedium.co/2025/03/29/severance-apple-remote-editing-weirdness/ #Severance #Drama #HackerNews #ngated -
Reading Time: 2 minutes
Several years ago I broke my most important rule. Never take a laptop with you that you are not willing to carry at all times. I had a Mac Book Pro stolen and this was extremely frustrating. The reason for which it was frustrating is that this Mac Book from still had normal USB ports, an SD card reader and more. New Mac Book Pros have four USB-3/Thunderbolt 3 connectors.
Thunderbolt 3 Nuissance
Some people love this, because itโs smaller, lighter, and faster but I hated the move because it meant that all my hard drives needed a dongle to work. All my charging cables for watches, cameras and more needed a dongle to work. You need a dongle for a wired connection and you simply always need a dongle. Whatโs worse is that you donโt need one dongle. You need two or three, or more.
Easier to Lose
You need to keep track of the dongles. Sometimes theyโre in one room, or drawer, and if you use them every few days or weeks they like to vanish so that instead of just plugging in a device you need to find the dongle, plug the USB cable to the dongle and the dongle to the laptop.
Fast Drives but Slow Dongles
Yesterday I plugged in a USB C drive to one port, and a USB C flat adaptor drive to the apple dongle with the other. The transfer speed was much faster but I didnโt test whether the difference was due to the dongle I was using, the Apple dedicated USB dongle or the other third party option for most drives.
I should do a read/write speed test with both dongles to see if there is a difference between dongles, or Iโm using slow, old drives. As I write this Iโm transferring 900 gigabytes from one drive to another and it will take โabout 4 hoursโ.
Bring Pi
Linux reads Mac OS Journaled and APFS drives when configured. Instead of blocking a mac in time and space ato run for hours it makes sense for a Pi to do this chore. A Pi is not fast. It doesnโt matter if youโre moving files from an APFS volume to an ExFat or Ext4 drive.
Legacy Devices
Over the years I have had USB A, B and C devices with various adapters. I have also had Firewire 400 and 800 drives, as well as Thunderbolt 2. The firewire drives and Thunderbolt two drives become unusable due to the move away from one standard to another. Luckily drives often come with two or three standards, and the aim should be to migrate from old drives to new drives every few years. Old drives can be backups, and new drives can be the working, drives, until they are retired to backup status in turn.
And Finally
In the good old days I would plug my drives straight into the computer and move data between drives. Now that I need to go from drive, to USB-C cable to dongle, to computer, between two or more drives I find that transfer speeds are very slow and I suspect that itโs the third party USB-C dongle that is slowing things down. Tomorrow I can recover my second dongle and test to see whether my suspicion is correct or not.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes
Several years ago I broke my most important rule. Never take a laptop with you that you are not willing to carry at all times. I had a Mac Book Pro stolen and this was extremely frustrating. The reason for which it was frustrating is that this Mac Book from still had normal USB ports, an SD card reader and more. New Mac Book Pros have four USB-3/Thunderbolt 3 connectors.
Thunderbolt 3 Nuissance
Some people love this, because itโs smaller, lighter, and faster but I hated the move because it meant that all my hard drives needed a dongle to work. All my charging cables for watches, cameras and more needed a dongle to work. You need a dongle for a wired connection and you simply always need a dongle. Whatโs worse is that you donโt need one dongle. You need two or three, or more.
Easier to Lose
You need to keep track of the dongles. Sometimes theyโre in one room, or drawer, and if you use them every few days or weeks they like to vanish so that instead of just plugging in a device you need to find the dongle, plug the USB cable to the dongle and the dongle to the laptop.
Fast Drives but Slow Dongles
Yesterday I plugged in a USB C drive to one port, and a USB C flat adaptor drive to the apple dongle with the other. The transfer speed was much faster but I didnโt test whether the difference was due to the dongle I was using, the Apple dedicated USB dongle or the other third party option for most drives.
I should do a read/write speed test with both dongles to see if there is a difference between dongles, or Iโm using slow, old drives. As I write this Iโm transferring 900 gigabytes from one drive to another and it will take โabout 4 hoursโ.
Bring Pi
Linux reads Mac OS Journaled and APFS drives when configured. Instead of blocking a mac in time and space ato run for hours it makes sense for a Pi to do this chore. A Pi is not fast. It doesnโt matter if youโre moving files from an APFS volume to an ExFat or Ext4 drive.
Legacy Devices
Over the years I have had USB A, B and C devices with various adapters. I have also had Firewire 400 and 800 drives, as well as Thunderbolt 2. The firewire drives and Thunderbolt two drives become unusable due to the move away from one standard to another. Luckily drives often come with two or three standards, and the aim should be to migrate from old drives to new drives every few years. Old drives can be backups, and new drives can be the working, drives, until they are retired to backup status in turn.
And Finally
In the good old days I would plug my drives straight into the computer and move data between drives. Now that I need to go from drive, to USB-C cable to dongle, to computer, between two or more drives I find that transfer speeds are very slow and I suspect that itโs the third party USB-C dongle that is slowing things down. Tomorrow I can recover my second dongle and test to see whether my suspicion is correct or not.
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Bought a RPi 4 and realized it needs a Micro HDMI adapter.
Bought the adapter
Configured the RPi
6 months pass
Bought a RPi 4 and realized it needs a Micro HDMI adapter.
Look for adapter that has vanished into thin air.
Bought the adapter (again)
I'm waiting for the old one to show up.
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Bought a RPi 4 and realized it needs a Micro HDMI adapter.
Bought the adapter
Configured the RPi
6 months pass
Bought a RPi 4 and realized it needs a Micro HDMI adapter.
Look for adapter that has vanished into thin air.
Bought the adapter (again)
I'm waiting for the old one to show up.
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Dear Friends of voice recognition, โ:gi:โ
Just did a #podcast, then uploaded and posted the #transcript created by the host to a #Buddhist forum I am on
https://newbuddhist.com/discussion/27297/lobsters-latest-website-microblog#latest
Voice recognition is a rule based #analysis. Nothing but noise and umming and ahhing removal and checking a data set of as many sound samples as possible.
So now security people have #voice #recognition, #face recognition, #fingerprint, #captcha, #passwords, #hardware #dongles and yet ...
Still can't get into my #gmail account, #icloud data, join a #forum or stop from #screaming at the bots creeping out the #netiverse ... โ:ablobcatcoffee:โ -
You know you're an #Apple user when this is the collection of dongles you use. #FirstNerdProblems #NerdLive #AppleLife #Dongles
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You know you're an #Apple user when this is the collection of dongles you use. #FirstNerdProblems #NerdLive #AppleLife #Dongles
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A cacophony of #dongles. Prepping my travel router for all the trips this summer.
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A cacophony of #dongles. Prepping my travel router for all the trips this summer.
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@Raspberry_Pi reminds me of a lot of applianced kids music players like #Tonies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9RbMMJRxzwI assume those #NFC cards are being used to command playback of a certain file from the internet (that may also be locally cached) as I'm convinced no NFC card can hold sufficient data or transmit it fast enough to actually physically store any sizeable song, making those cards merely work as #dongles to access something.
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#Apple's dedication to 'a diversity of #donglesโ is polluting the planet | Julia Carrie Wong | Opinion | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/24/apple-dongles-eu-electronic-waste-pollution
