How do they come up with the most confusing naming schemes on the planet? You would think that making it easy to identify which product is which would boost sales, or someone at least has the sanity to make it easy to understand.

(i.e. CPUs, laptop processors, USB standard, most smartphones, monitors, anything made by Sony that’s not a Playstation…)

  • sbird@lemmy.worldOP
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    6 days ago

    CPUs aren’t named after serial numbers, yet they are still confusing as all heck. Laptop processors are much worse with even more letters to choose from. Motherboards are also very weird, what’s with the superfluous “0” at the end? It’s never used for anything.

    Besides those however, regular things are also terribly named. Besides headphones and smartphones which I have already mentioned, there’s also shoes, cars, door locks, light bulbs, flashlights, tablets, laptops, etc. Jeez that’s a lot, and those are just the ones on the top of my head

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      6 days ago

      One of the characters in a vehicle VIN number indicates the original paint color. Ain’t that cute too?