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[–] AClassyGentleman@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Situation: There are 20 screw standards.

John Corporate: "20 standards... I know, I'll create a new type of screw that will be unique to my corporate overlords and prevent users from repairing their own devices!"

Situation: There are 21 screw standards.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] jxk@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be fair, UTF-8 did win the character encoding wars. Kudos to the Unicode designers I guess.

[–] Xanvial@lemmy.one 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

USB also won the cable data war. The 2000s era cables is wild

[–] thesanewriter@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, given enough time sometimes one of the standards will win and kill the others, it kinda just depends (in part on luck)

[–] Harlehatschi@vlemmy.net 6 points 1 year ago

Wish Windows knew that