While USB is now needlessly complicated and poorly labeled for consumer understanding, at least it succeeds in being backwards compatible so long as the physical connectors match (and all you need is a dumb adapter to convert any connector). If you have a 3.0 port on one device, a 2.0 port on the other device, and a 3.1 cable, you get 2.0 transfer speeds.

HDMI has the same kind of “issue”. Whatever the specs on each component, throughput and features drop to the lowest common denominator when in use.

Typically, the side of the plug with the USB logo is “up”. There are exceptions.

Also typically, if a USB port is vertical, up is to the left. Again, there are exceptions.

Sage

This gif is still so relaxing.

Did… he actually say that?

I always respected Nechayev.

Kane boogies in death!

From the Journey’s End TV special that aired before the premier of All Good Thing…

Frakes, in future Riker makeup: “You wouldn’t believe how much filming a TV show ages people. I was a young man when I started now look at me.”

This is how she got sent to prison, she got so angry Q became mortal and then she painted the entire bridge with his blood. That’s why they call her Red.

First clue: Okay, think, who got slowly promoted from Ensign throughout the show?

Second clue: So mean!

ELI5

It’s not a game where you figure out the connection, it’s a pure guessing game. If I wanted five points, I would have to correctly guess that question being asked with “Quark” as my only context? How?

I don’t know the actual parameters of the question until I’ve lost all but one point.

Is that Blake’s 7?

When he lets one nipple out it means he’s in the mood.

• Keep whisking your matter/antimatter batter until a smooth, creamy consistency is achieved.

Don’t be sorry, you’re not pedantic enough.

The Nahuatl word Xoloitzcuintle is something the vast majority of English-speaking Americans can’t read, let alone spell or pronounce correctly. So the more digestible word Xolo was adopted to identify Mexican hairless dogs (hard X, hard O, L, hard O).

X, spoken as a letter = ecks

Hard phonetic sound = zz, same as the letter Z (almost always at the beginning of a word. Xylophone)

Soft phonetic sound = ksk (never at the beginning of a word. Box, oxen)

(disclaimer: American English, ymmv.)

Xolo - hairless Mexican dog

Xenops - small bird

(I don’t use X-Ray because saying the letter X doesn’t make either of the letter’s major phonetic sounds.)

Brøderbund

broder bund

b r o d e r

r e d o r b

Red Orb

Pike: “You eyeballing my seat, boy?”