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Why the negativity? Why the "OH FUCK YOU - FUCK YOU, IT EXISTS (author words)" tone when there are entire markets/areas where retro-compatibility and weird conversions are a requirement?

I know that an average user won't buy many of these adapters, but for a person doing that kind of research, is it really that weird? I mean, the author is a "Hardware / software necromancer, collector of Weird Stuff, maker of Death Generators."

We're retrofitting 18K devices with SSDs through a M2-to-USB converter (we have reasons to do it that way). Someone is selling my company 18K of those boards. So, not bad at all. And that's just us.

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I don't believe they're actually angry or negative that it exists! It's an expression of surprise, using hyperbole to communicate in a funny way how bizarre it is without context. Foone is an old and weird hardware enthusiast, they love this sort of stuff.

Edit: I mean they love old and weird hardware, not that they themselves are old and weird.

I definitely interpreted it as the latter so thanks for clarifying with that edit :’D

Of course there is nothing wrong with a person being old or weird, either.

A case of tone not carrying in text. They're not being as negative as it might first appear.

I find it a bit obnoxious,personally, but whatever. No tone in text.

I would recommend everyone spend enough time on 4chan's more interesting boards (or similar) that they get inoculated to most text. Makes the internet into a pretty calm place, like how meditating in a storm might train you to be unfazed by smaller distractions.

> I know that an average user won't buy many of these adapters, but for a person doing that kind of research, is it really that weird?

The joke is that these manufacturers are just trying all permutations of adapters like some kind of unhinged mad scientist disregarding if anyone actually needs them or not. This is obviously not true, but it's an absurd idea that the intended audience can relate to, so it makes for a funny joke.

> Why the negativity? Why the "OH FUCK YOU - FUCK YOU, IT EXISTS (author words)" tone

I can think of plenty of reasons, but they pretty much all boil down to, "Because that gets you bigger numbers next to the little heart icons."

This isn't even a strange adapter, I'd be surprised if this didn't exist. Why not get excited about cassette tape to 3.5mm adapters (very real and also very useful)?

Why not get excited about cassette tape to 3.5mm adapters (very real and also very useful)?

I use one of these nearly every day, since my truck doesn't have an aux-in jack, but it did come with a factory cassette tape player.

I still get a kick out of the fact that stereo Bluetooth cassettes exist :)

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