Notices by Manawyrm | Sarah (manawyrm@chaos.social), page 2

@ryanc @saraislet Not quite sure what I'd need to do in such a situation...

@ryanc @saraislet always a bit scared a flight somewhere in the region might divert/emergency land in UAE (or a similar country) :/

@grillchen @kaia much, much more harmful. That subway station is harmless in comparison.

If you want to see hot pixels on a modern phone, you'll need radiation levels that'll kill you in an hour.

@grillchen @kaia while this does work, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near an area where it's detecting any signal. the amounts of radiation required are very, very harmful.

@ryanc I haven't seen any really reputable brand (in both sockets and power supplies) selling a socket with a high quality supply (at least for the EU market). So far, I've opened/looked at a few (maybe 5 or so), which were all horribly dangerous designs, lacking filtering, safety components and legally mandated clearances.

None of these products should've been on the EU market! All of them were illegal!

@HopelessDemigod @ryanc Excellent point! Totally forgot about that.

@ryanc @kravietz sadly, yes 😹

I do like the individually fused plugs, though! That's not a bad idea at all!

@kravietz @ryanc 1970s Type F (EU) outlets, with 1.5mm^2 copper cabling, earthed and GFI protected.

Those outlets are fine.

@ryanc No, because:
- high idle power consumption
- lacking safety (against surges/spikes)
- lacking safety (against electrocution of the user)
- thermal problems (over-temperature inside the wall?)
- bad regulation (high ripple, etc.)
- coil whine
- often bad negotiation (USB-C or USB-A power delivery)
- fire hazard (can't quickly unplug smoking permanently installed outlets)

- USB standards change rapidly. I'm still using 1970s outlets. I'm not using 1970s tech $anything.

Very exciting news for collectors of old cellphones:
There's ways again to get data connectivity on devices which don't support GPRS/packet data.

This Nokia Communicator 9110 is running DOS on a AMD x86 CPU and is connected to the internet via a 9600bps CSD call through a private GSM network!

The Osmocom free/open GSM stack gained CSD support over the last months and it now actually works :)