Notices by -dsr- (dashdsrdash@tilde.zone)

@cstross

There's a SF/comedy series, Avenue 5, in which the passengers ride around in the Apple Store picture and the crew below live and work in the second picture.

In fact, the captain and the shiny bridge crew are all actors...

@ryanc @nf3xn

Good USB-C endurance is 10,000 cycles.

Cheap endurance testers for NEMA 5-15P have a counter that goes to 999999. Expensive ones go another digit.

@Zeugs @ryanc @nf3xn

NEMA is the US standard, 5-15P is the 3 conductor 15A plug side that 90% of the appliances you can buy use, 5-15R is the wall outlet side that 90% of the walls will have. The exceptions are mostly 220/240V outlets and plugs for large air conditioners, electric dryers and such.

Very old houses will have ungrounded 2 conductor plugs; some appliances use ungrounded 2 conductor plugs that work in NEMA 5-15R.

@Zeugs @ryanc @nf3xn

I checked the DE standard, and I'm a little surprised to see manufacturers boasting about 20,000 insertion cycle testing for type F / Schuko plugs. I would have guessed 500000 or more.

@Zeugs @ryanc @nf3xn

I don't believe I have any devices which use USB A or C and will last 25 years.

I have several NEMA 5-15P devices that are more than 50 years old and still in reasonable condition...

but in any case, the question is what you should put into your walls. I wouldn't put USB in the wall; as @cstross said, we'll have a new standard every few years.