Totally logical and expected functionality

Badly shielded USB3 causes RF leaks at 2.4GHz. use 5Ghz WiFi or better shielded devices.

Apple users have to jump through so many hoops just to look down on everyone else

Apple: "You're not using your mac how we designed it to. Please pay $4000 more to use the right side usb-c without issues".

Imagine buying a computer with only two ports.

Maybe you were holding it wrong

I'm amazed at how many professionals use Macs because Apple seems to hate power users. I had to use a Mac briefly recently and was amazed to find they still don't have window snapping.

It also had no idea what to do with my monitor, couldn't even detect the correct resolution. I'm guessing if I had bought a $3000 Apple monitor it would have worked immediately. But had to dive into "advanced settings" just to set the correct resolution.

Not to talk shit about Mac users, but in this day and age with how advanced technology is, you have to be insane to buy a Mac. What kills it for me is that nothing is upgradeable on the damn thing, like zero. If your internal drive dies, you're SOL. And if I got this correctly, they now have the bios OS on the same drive, the Internal. So, you won't even be able to get to your bios. You won't be able to install the OS on external hard drive in case you needed to. This is insane and I can never understand why anyone would buy into this shit.

Random computer quirks always fascinate me. The strangest one I had involved a computer that shouldn't have existed.

One time in the early aughts I had a patchwork computer that I put together from the junk pile of a local computer store that a buddy of mine ran.

It was barely holding together in a rusty frame, with zip ties and wood glue.

Its modem was temperamental as hell. It would only stay online so long as it was pinging a website via command prompt. It was only some websites, too. Like I could ping Geocities, but not livejournel.

I remember many weekends doing Mephisto runs in Diablo II, praying that my command prompt doesn't bug out anytime I'd get anything worthwhile.

So that’s why Apple removed all USBC ports on the right side of Macs… (M series air and 13” pro have this issue)

My PC went through a phase of switching off when you accessed the network share with my pictures on it.

I could access it locally. I could use other network shares.

It stopped doing that when I swapped the PSU.

Fuck computers, I want to live in a cave.

Laughs in framework with four identical USB-C ports that can do anything

Windows 7 forgets your wifi password if you plug the dongle into a different port.

I can't remember which model it was, but wasn't there a MacBook Pro that had 4 USB-C ports, only two of which supported Thunderbolt? Want to connect your monitor to the right side of the machine? Well... tough shit, I guess.

I'm having the same issue at work at the moment. When I connect to my dual monitor setup at work, all my usb devices stop working. Mouse, keyboard, the internal camera, monitors... All dead till you reboot, then they work for 10 Minutes again.

Now i have the same Monitor setup at home, no issues here. Mind you, it's a Lenovo ThinkPad with Lenovo monitors and it worked for years without issues.

The Lenovo technician told our IT guy that's because my monitor setup at home is another generation with a different chipset in the usb hub/switch. After giving us a few tips that didn't work, like disconnecting the Monitors from power for a minute or using a different port on the notebook they defaulted to "You're shit out of luck because the support ends after 4 years" - The monitors are 4 years old.

MacBook USB-C can be goofy. I know for restoring firmware (which Apple refers to as "reviving"), on some models, you have to use a very specific port

Somewhat tangential, but USB-C docking stations, as useful as it is to have everything in one cable, it can also be annoying.

At the office, I often just want to charge my laptop with them, but they also give me a wired internet connection, which, thanks to corporate networking shitfuckery, doesn't work. So, every time I plug in, I have to disable that wired connection.

Also, recently a colleague had problems getting her headset working when she was plugged into certain docks, ultimately due to a bug in the OS.
Like, alright, that should be fixed in the OS, but that USB-C dock doesn't even have a speaker attached to it. It's completely useless that it shows up as an audio device.
And even after we found a workaround to fix her headset, she will now have to switch over her audio device every time she plugs into a dock.

So, basically it's now one step to plug in the cable, but potentially multiple steps to undo half of what you unwillingly plugged in...

I just love how the other person immediately knew there could be a difference between the left and the right USB port.

My current and previous jobs provided macbooks for "security" and the one with my last job would not charge on the right USB ports. I assumed this was just expected, like only one side was actually hooked up to the battery while the other was just for data transfer.

On my Mac studio m2, half of my USBC ports on the back don't seem to connect well to my 4k monitor. I suspect it must be a shielding issue on the Mac

"We conform to the open standard, but only to the parts that we like"

Are both ports otherwise equal specs-wise?

Yea... I hate the shit out of M$FT but I'm still never going to buy a fucking Mac.