Writer Cary Bates says that the Supermobile was created as a promotional tie-in for the Corgi Toys toy line: “In my opinion, whenever merchandising needs are dictating story content, the odds of any real creativity or inspiration are severely compromised”.

Yah, we could tell…

The scary thought here isn’t that they’re actively listening in.

It’s that they know enough about you to know that something will be of interest to you before you even realise it yourself…

That’s the most unlikely story I’ve heard in a minute… Even assuming there’re some deep rooted kernel level shenanigans, which no one has found yet, how would you fiddling with some settings expose that?

Probably just got a dropped call, and it resumed the playlist in shuffle, I’ve had it happen where the music comes out as if in a phone call (messes up frequencies) for a few seconds before it goes back to normal. Occam’s razor and all

Yeah, especially stuff like “start/stop” or “on/off”, that universal language by now.

I stand corrected, thanks. The mini was bad, the micro in the PS4 controllers is god awful.

Mini-USB sucked, big time. Not so bad as micro, but yea it was bad.

The main advantage of C over all previous versions is that it’s reversible, you can’t plug it in wrong. The shape is also… “flat”?, so it’s easier to fit into the socket, mini had that wavy like thing going on.

My data source is my small kid: he’s broken 3 (and counting…) usb-mini micro connectors by tugging the charging PS4 controllers, and he has to ask me to connect the cable to charge them, he’s unable to do it himself yet. With his tablet, 0 usb-c connectors broken and he can plug it in himself.

But why would I use something that takes more effort and care?

I’m sure you’re right and it’s possible, but if I don’t have to fix another python project at work I’ll be in heaven.