On Tue, 2022-07-26 at 16:20 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > My devices don't have a power switch, so I unplug the USB cable, And the plugs and sockets wear out, they're not a good design. :-( > but then I end up wanting more front-panel USB ports. I just > installed Fedora on an old iMac which has much better speakers than > the HDMI connected monitor so has reduced the need to connect better > audio devices (by USB), but no front ports unless you count the ones > on the keyboard. Yes, I have an ancient Mac that has better speakers than the crappy (in every way) plastic Philips HDMI monitor I'm using. It's not that hard to design speaker cavities so they sound reasonable, but some companies just don't put the effort in. Philips has enough history that they should know better. Computer's never have enough USB ports, or enough power to drive all the devices plugged into them. Heck, mine's got about 6 or 8 (I don't recall the count of internal headers that could be connected but aren't). Yet, if I plug in keyboard, mouse, and two very basic webcams, it goes haywire. And, yes, the main PSU is a big beefy one, well in excess of real needs. I think it's funny that we went from rudimentary home computing which started off with some featureless box (pre IBM-compatible era) which you cabled together all sorts of peripherals like some kind of three-D model of neurons. Then came the IBM compatible idea where everything bar the keyboard and monitor was slotted into the main box, and in some cases it was a completely one-piece unit bar the mains cord. Now we've gone back to spaghetti nightmare (and no, wireless peripherals isn't an improvement, just a whole new can of worms). -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.71.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 28 15:37:28 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
