Linux ThinkPad Driver Ready For Reporting Damage Device - Starting With Bad USB-C Ports (www.phoronix.com)

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[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

What? Is that title english? Am i confused?

ThinkPad ACPI driver to begin reporting damaged device detection

[-] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 5 points 19 hours ago

I frequently wonder whether English is Michael's first language, because he has some extremely strange but remarkably consistent linguistic quirks in his writing.

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Huh, I was able to parse this one just fine.
Now those Rock Paper Shortgun headlines are hell

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

I'm reading it as "A Linux driver for ThinkPads is ready to start reporting damaged devices on your system - starting with bad USB-C ports."

Headlinese is kind of ruining this one.

[-] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

So, usb devices that are connected to your laptop, or the laptop's usb sockets themselves?

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I assume the latter.

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Fixing the typo (‘damage’ instead of ‘damaged’) would’ve gone a long way.

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago

i think the the "s" on devices is also important to make it make sense

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Yeah I read it multiple times and atill have no odea what it supposedly says

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