I just can't man, I fucking can't anymore with the Internet and people's need for everything to be spoon fed and assuming that everyone else has lost all information literacy.
So … what did you mean? Going by the plain English words, I pasted the title minus the “ask HN” prefix into Google and got a part-wrong answer. Asking here seems to be inline with practicing information literacy since it’s a community where people are more likely to have actual knowledge than some SEO bot, and there’s both attribution and community voting to help when assessing answers.
You know, the way people used Google and looked things up say a whopping 3 years ago?
> Why do laptop chargers have data wires?
I know, it's crazy to think people would like, research topics, be curious about what PD is, maybe skim the wikipedia for a whole 45 seconds, etc.
But no, apparently just spamming basic questions to reddit and HN is the way we're headed because everyone is used to have these AI-regurgitated crap spoon-fed to them. Or want someone to spell it all out for them because intellectual curiosity is a dying rare thing.
But hey, we're talking about a person who was reading unspecified communities that were apparently promoting cutting open wires to remove data lines, undoubtledly for "freedom" or "privacy", all seemingly without any context or clue about what they were doing.
I just can't man, I fucking can't anymore with the Internet and people's need for everything to be spoon fed and assuming that everyone else has lost all information literacy.