Someone sending just “hi” in a work IM is equivalent to no message being sent at all.

I will respond when I actually receive a message

until USB C got popular after 2014

Nonono, USB-C isn’t over a decade old…

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Anything non-portable that you plug in to a computer with a USB-A connection is supposed to have a USB-B on the other end if the cable is removable.

I have a lot of music gear with USB-B connectors on them

Surely that’s a jacemat

You can eat as shitty as you like, you just need to make sure you burn the calories.

You can spend an hour on a bike/running and burn getting close to a thousand calories. Lifting is more like half that, but has the benefit of increasing your metabolism over time

Data track/session is the term

If it was done in the way where the data track didn’t show up for an audio player, it was probably an Enhanced CD/CD plus. If anyone is backing up old CDs it’s worth checking for this kind of stuff and saving it too. Given most people only ever rip the audio, loads of that stuff is going to end up as lost media before long

“good morning, I’m about to destroy the backend” is exactly the energy I’d welcome from a colleague frankly.

I think the outage that followed as we fumbled to replace it would probably be cheaper than the ongoing maintenance after a few months