TimeSquirrel @ TimeSquirrel @kbin.social

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We wanted our stuff to charge faster. We can't pull more amps through the thin USB cable wires and contacts without turning them into detonation cord, so we increase the voltage instead, and due to Ohm's Law, we get more wattage out of it as a result, so now we can charge your phone in 20 minutes instead of 3 hours. And because some devices can take advantage of this, and some can't, we had to build some logic into the power delivery system to avoid frying things.

The perks of being an electronic security installer and wiring up your own house with a real system with a dozen PoE cameras and a local NVR under your control only...😋

Stay away from the Harry Homeowner cloud-connected lick-and-stick BestBuy bullshit.

I'm just curious how we'll define "realistic", because someone who's into just software programming might be satisfied with a studio apartment. I can't live without my basement workshop however. I like to make stuff.

How did you know my browser's user-agent string?

Fine then: https://i.imgur.com/2V7ZVlD.png

If we're gonna go with inventors, I'm gonna have to go with Tesla over Franklin. Sure, the Leyden Jar is nice, but AC power grids and radio is even nicer.

You'd think work can carry on without him. Does he still have to be present online to approve everything happening to the kernel? I'd have thought the process was a bit more decentralized at this point.

Makes me even more worried about the kernel after his passing if one or two snow days in one region of the world are a major show-stopper.

A human at the other end of the exchange forces you to think about that human, to consider that human, and to acknowledge the existence of that human, whether they speak or not. Don't have to feel that way with a machine.

Yes, some people are that bad that even silent interaction produces anxiety. It's why I prefer emails and texts instead of live phone calls. I can communicate on my own time after thinking it through and not feel obligated to respond immediately (that's what Asperger's does to a MF)

Hello Memtest my old friend... 🎵

I've come to segfault with you again... 🎵

I bet you think "right click, inspect, delete element" is "piracy" too.

slurred speech "..yeah, totally!"

Next day on social media...

"I can't believe this MF agrees with blending stray puppies."

"His team built a working battery with this material, albeit with a lower conductivity than similar prototypes that use more lithium."

I do know that because of Ohm's law, this directly translates to less available current than conventional electrolytes. There's not enough info to determine mAh though.

I don't agree with the US doing it either. Freedom of travel by sea should be a basic human right.

You can't restrict access to waterways that other countries further upstream depend on to function. If this were the US cutting off access to the sea for say, the Gaza strip (which they already help Israel do, actually, so I am definitely not saying they are morally right here), then you'd have a much different opinion on it, wouldn't you?

Almost the entire world recognizes this basic courtesy of the sea. It's like damming a river for yourself and starving out others who weren't as fortunate to live closer to the source.

Either we have free access to the oceans and waterways for all, or we just shut down international trade and all become hermit kingdoms.

Man...we've been saying that since '99...

I mean it has gotten a lot better. Dependency hell is mostly a thing of the past. If you were around back then using it then you should know the suffering we all went through to get ANY sort of usability out of it. Half the time it wouldn't even fucking work at all due to some weird hardware you had, or you were limited to terminal only because XFree86 didn't know what to make of your video card (it was a time of cheap shitbox Pentium MMX/Pentium II/Celeron machines, some of which came in cow print boxes). It sure has come a long way from my perspective.

would much rather buy a working board then try to replace a single chip.

That's perfectly fine for you, but I do own a hot air rework station, so give me the option.