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Right now, it looks like it’s mostly usb-c everything (with “the more watts, the better”, and the apple stuff being generally compliant becaus of the legislation pressure, but really not because their stuff is (intentionally) not completely working the same way. There’s also a minority of “just shitty chargers and cables”, but I’m speaking of brand-name space

Well, I’m all for universally easy things and a consumer not being stressed, but if we really got to the “I don’t get basic numbers” territory, then go learn some school physics, and maybe that Volts is the pressure in the pipe, Amps is how fast the water flows through it, and Watts is just pressure times flow rate - it’s that simple. Go and fucking learn what is what, there’s enough information in my comment alone.

I mean, it’s not 20 of them like the picture suggests - it’s like 2 or 3 depending on what yoou have. And I have laptop chargers everywhere, and a good powerbank, so I’m covered. And I also have a GaN universal hub with several plugs, so I can plug in US or EU and have a lot of watts coming onnthe other side. So I feel like the chargers war is over and now we can just use stuff.

Oh, my powerbank charges my laptop through the high-power usb specifically marked “PD”, and that usb doesn’t charge my bike lights - the other “usual” 15w ones do. And many usb hubs also have something like this written on them.
What I’m saying is that I’m only against the picture showing 20 Usb-c ports telling that they are all different. I would divide slots and cables in 3 groups:

• “oh, this one doesn’t show fast charging”,
• “yay, this one supports fast charging”,
• and “this thing has “100000W” written on it and it charges my laptop”.
  And you usually can easily distinguish them. Like, a thin cable probably won’t do the fast charging thing

I have different work Thinkpads from 2019, so probably the first one was 2018 or 2017 generation. And they accepted whatever laptop usb charger (ok, most of them were also Lenovos, but some generic stuff our IT was ordering from Amazon as well)
My current T14 works with my AliExpress 120w powerbank.
Probably good to rely on brands who don’t mess with standards

All devices now have chips that do a handshake with the charger, exchanging information about supported standards and charging using the best common option. So I charge my prohe with a 90W laptop charger, even when it is unable to use the whole wattage

I am just in the end of my first month of subscription (the cheapest, $5 one). I love it! I mean, now Kagi proposes to either pay more or forward the request to ddg/google, but I’m ok with that because the new month starts tomorrow.
Well, it is a search, and you can search with it, and find stuff. Surprisingly, in 2010 that didn’t sound so awesome, but now it does. Because it is so great not to scroll through all the “sponsored content” and AI bullshit.
Also, Google dropped most of the search syntax, so I couldn’t use “minus words” or, in contrary, make it unable tp depp some words from the request. Kagi has an entire page with advanced search settings, so if you suddenly find something super specific, you will like it.
The free trial is 100 searches, so it’s enough time to see if it’s worth it - I think it is

Uhh, I was born there :)
Also, a lot of household stuff makers just continued making products with oldschool packaging, because it was easily recognizable. So if in the USSR you had THE condensed milk in iconic packaging, now you would have many condensed milk brands, but most of them having some kind of variations of the og package. I even have a magnet with it

FYI, the package is styled as a soviet baking soda pack

Who “they”? Security services are not the hive, It’s not like everyone knows everything pr never misses anything. Or do you think it’s like a game where you unlock the “passive listening device countermeasures” technology and suddenly 100% bugs across the country are found and new bugs can’t be planted?