I do like the individually fused plugs, though! That's not a bad idea at all!
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Manawyrm | Sarah (manawyrm@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 23:25:30 JST Manawyrm | Sarah
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Manawyrm | Sarah (manawyrm@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 23:25:25 JST Manawyrm | Sarah
@kravietz @ryanc 1970s Type F (EU) outlets, with 1.5mm^2 copper cabling, earthed and GFI protected.
Those outlets are fine.
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Manawyrm | Sarah (manawyrm@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 23:25:18 JST Manawyrm | Sarah
@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.
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Manawyrm | Sarah (manawyrm@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2023 02:19:28 JST Manawyrm | Sarah
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 :)