BorgDrone @ BorgDrone @lemmy.one

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I feel the only place for a €1 cable is met by those USB-A to C cables that you get with things for 5V charging. That’s it.

But those are useless to me as my MacBook doesn’t have any USB-A ports anymore and since the PC world usually follows a few years later they will basically disappear in the near future.

Anything that wants to be USB-C on both ends should be fully compatible with a marked spec, not indistinguishable from a 5V junk wire or freely cherry picking what they feel like paying for.

But there is no single spec, there are lots of optional parts. Options that also come with limitations. Anything above the bare minimum needs an identification chip in the connector so the computer can determine it’s capabilities. That adds cost. A 240W cable is necessary thicker and thus less flexible than a 7.5W cable. A passive cable that supports thunderbolt 3 or 4 cannot be longer than 2 meters, above that it needs to be an active cable which is a lot more expensive.

So if you want to make it mandatory for all cables to support all features, that means that if you want a 5 meter charging cable so you can use your phone on the couch while it charges you have to spend over €400 for a cable. Or, you could not make it mandatory and have 5m cables that do not support 20gbit for €10.

That’s because it doesn’t make sense to use an €40 cable when a €1 cable would do.

Doesn’t matter much. Is it a 7.5W cable, or maybe a 15W, 45W, 60W, 100W, 140W or 240W cable ? Does it support USB 2.0 (480Mbps), 3.1 gen1 (5Gbps), 3.1 gen2 (10Gbps), does it support Thunderbolt, and if so the 20Gbit or 40Gbit version ? Does it support DisplayPort alt mode?

You can’t tell any of this from looking at the cable. It’s a terrible mess.

it’s not blockchain itself, it’s how over-hyped it is for what is a data structure with a very limited and specific use-case.

It’s the fact that ‘blockchain companies’ exist while there are no ‘binary search tree’ companies or ‘weighted directional graph’ companies.

It’s not subjective, it’s fact. You’re welcome to your own opinion, not your own reality.

I especially like it when they use airplanes to illustrate weight. “… the same as 15 Boeing 747 jumbo jets”. Airplanes are made to be as light as possible, they go to extreme lengths to save as much weight as they can. As such, a 747 is much lighter than most objects of similar size. People have no intuition of the weight of such large objects to begin with, but then they add to it by using something that is much lighter than you’d expect.

iPhone 13 Pro. Probably going to upgrade to a 16 Pro this fall.

I moved out at 19 and in hindsight this feels a little late to me. I should probably have moved out at 18. The amount of freedom you gain from living on your own is worth the cost and hard to overstate.

Not just internet providers. Data communication speeds have always been in bits per second. Historically it makes perfect sense.

Specifying speed in bytes per second would be inconvenient because while we settled on 8 bits per byte in the early days of computing this was not the case. 6-bit bytes were common, but other sizes were used too, 7,8, 9, 10 and sometimes even larger.

So when you’re talking about communication between different types of computers with different size bytes, it would be confusing to use bytes/second as a unit.

It also shows that you are capable of finishing a multi-year commitment.

No, it’s not just an USB-C USB3.0 connector. It uses an USB-C Alt-mode called VirtualLink. This was intended as a standard for connecting VR headsets and was briefly supported on PC, on 2000 series Nvidia cards, but no modern day cards support it.

It combines USB3, DisplayPort and some other stuff, and has some specific power output requirements. The pinout is completely different from the common DisplayPort + USB2 alt mode.

It will probably need an external box + power supply to work. Something like that already exists but hope/suspect the Sony version will be cheaper that his.

The whole point of PC support is to use this without having a PS5. You can’t connect it to a PC without some additional hardware.

It’ll probably require additional hardware though. At least some kind of adapter.

It’s quite simple actually.

But why grant him bankruptcy? Where I live, personal bankruptcy isn’t really a thing. You can’t just walk away from debt and get a fresh start as you please. There is a ‘debt sanitation’ procedure but any creditors have to agree to the procedure and you have to go through a period of at least 3 years in which any income above the social minimum will be garnished and used to pay your debts. After this period outstanding debt can be discharged but this is entirely up to the discretion of each individual creditor.

In this case, I do not see any reason why you would agree to that. Let him pay every cent he makes for the rest of his life.

Why are remaining debts cancelled? They should liquidate all his assets and then take every single cent he makes for the rest of his life.

Me, a European, using Xcode and Eclipse ¯(ツ)/¯

Also, PS6 likely launching ahead of GTA 6. PS6 Pro likely launching ahead of GTA 6. PS7 likely launching ahead of GTA 6.

I don't think a dictatorship or fascism is the solution, but holy crap do we need to sweep away the people who are obviously working in bad faith to undermine our democracy.

I think the main problem with democracy is that it combines several things that should not be combined, specifically the who, the what and the how.

In the current democratic system you can vote for a person or party (the who), you can choose these people based on their claims of what they want to achieve and how they want to achieve it. This allows for all kinds of fuckery. For example: the people you voted for may not actually implement the measures they claimed they would or the proposed method of achieving a goal may not actually have that effect (intentionally or out of ignorance). Some party could claim they want to improve the economy (what) by lowering the taxes on the richt (how), while their actual goal is simply to lower taxes for the rich knowing full well it won’t help the economy whatsoever.

What I would like to see is what I’d call a ‘democratic technocracy’. People get to vote only on the ‘what’, i.e. the goals they want to achieve, and their relative priority. The ‘who’ are the people most qualified to achieve these goals, and the how should be determine through a thorough scientific process. These people should then regularly be evaluated based on their performance in achieving these goals and replaced it they don’t.

It was part of my BSc, but that was over 20 years ago.