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   Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 12:48:12 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   an image from the alternate universe where USB never existed so our parallel ports just kept getting bigger

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     jbaggs (jbaggs@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 06:39:20 JST jbaggs

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     @foone Mmmm. SCSI.

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     Gorgeous na Shock! (indigoparadox@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 06:40:10 JST Gorgeous na Shock!

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     @foone For anyone wondering (like I was a while ago) why all the cool parallel interfaces went away and everything is serial now: Apparently the answer is crosstalk. 😔

     The signals on the parallel wires interfere with each other at higher speeds and longer lengths, so it's faster and more practical to just send info serially.

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     Kit Bashir (unixbigot@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 06:40:28 JST Kit Bashir

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     @foone I worked for the company that made these in the 90s. and they got bigger than that.

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     chjara (chjara@akko.wtf)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 06:49:35 JST chjara

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     @foone USB was invented and yet
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 06:51:12 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Christian Berger DECT 9314
     @foone @casandro And wow those seem to be pretty expensive for what they are.
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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 06:51:13 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Christian Berger DECT 9314

     @casandro not ironically, that's exactly what this is.

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     Christian Berger DECT 9314 (casandro@f-ckendehoelle.de)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 06:51:14 JST Christian Berger DECT 9314

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     @foone Ironically multi-port serial cards look just like that. :)

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 06:51:08 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Christian Berger DECT 9314
     @casandro @foone Yeah but effectively much cheaper to keep a bunch of USB-Serial adapters plugged together on a USB-Hub.
     Although luckily so far I haven't had problems with USB-Serial adapters but I've mostly used them for serial-consoles on devboards.
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     Christian Berger DECT 9314 (casandro@f-ckendehoelle.de)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 06:51:09 JST Christian Berger DECT 9314

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @lanodan @foone Well considering that it can save you from having to waste a lot of PCI-E slots, the price is quite OK.
     Compared to USB to serial device, these are a _lot_ more reliable since they by-pass USB.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 15:53:24 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Christian Berger DECT 9314
     @casandro @foone Well I still have annoying bugs with USB but more the other way around, like:
     - sd card reader just getting stuck in a bad state if left plugged for a while, including integrated ones for 3.5" bays or laptops
     - mouse/trackball also sometimes just hanging
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     Christian Berger DECT 9314 (casandro@f-ckendehoelle.de)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 15:53:26 JST Christian Berger DECT 9314

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @lanodan @foone You were extremely lucky then. Anything beyond keyboard and mouse I have crashes regularly because the bus resets on any tiny static discharge in the room.