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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I have never seen one with SS, but maybe they removed that part in Germany.

For those that don’t knowhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel?wprov=sfti1

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Thank god that no one made a transfer speed standard of 88 Gb/s

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

I looked at two Dell laptops and a Geekom mini PC, all bought in Germany, and they all have the SS symbol.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

So the SS Anne from Pokémon was a Nazi cruise ship?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Not in Germany, they renamed it to MS Anne.

[–] something_random_tho 7 points 2 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

You mean the MS Anne

[–] linearchaos 4 points 2 months ago

I see them on the back of full size computer cases and on docks. They will often be one SS port on the top. I had no idea what it meant before now.