Notices by ROTOPE~1 :yell: (rotopenguin@mastodon.social), page 2

@thomasfuchs I can't imagine why you'd put two bus connectors on it. Is that for extra mechanical support? Just for the love of high insertion force?

@thomasfuchs *squints* hold on dawg, HOW MANY MF ARROW KEYS DID THEY PUT ON THE C16?

@thomasfuchs that is oversimplifying the situation

It also has node

@silverwizard @lcamtuf the best damn love story about a Narn and a Centauri that there ever was

@thomasfuchs *sitting down at cumfession* forgive me father, for I have slapped skin

@thomasfuchs it is amazing that such old cells aren't already leaking. But, you know they want to leak into a device soooo bad.

@thomasfuchs next month, let's run the pinapple-on-pizza cover

@phooky @mcc if you don't like Framework's prices, System76 isn't going to improve upon that.

@thomasfuchs I wouldn't buy another one and return the broken one. That would be unfair to Jeff.

@jerry the part where Homer rides the Mule around a concert hall really got to me

@thomasfuchs It was really cool when connectors were changed by doing things like "put the slot in backwards" or "shove a plug in one of the 80 pin holes."

I've never tried to stick a PCI card in a VLB slot. Or found that the difference in insertion force when you're bending one little pin is close to fuck-all.

@thomasfuchs the key thing to understand is that the tooling to manufacture a brand new kind of connector is really expensive. It is a lot easier to point at an existing connector and say "hey can I buy a hundred thousand of those too?" than reinvent the wheel.

The Atari 2600 only supports 2KB cartridges because nobody was selling a slightly wider cartridge slot (for more address lines) at the time. Adding two more little pins was a harder problem than putting mapper chips in millions of carts

@ids1024 @thomasfuchs did you know that the higher power delivery connectors need to have special platings and contact geometry to suppress arcing?

Can't wait to have a "chipped, but lol not really" cable weld itself into my laptop.

@hazel @split

@data0 @thomasfuchs it's good to know that Chrome Sync is e2e encrypted by default.

@aeva I don't understand how someone can come up short on power bricks? At this point in life you should have a bucket of em.

@ariadne @chjara @erincandescent @lanodan
We should stick to simple microcontrollers that are much easier to verify
https://mastodon.social/@whitequark/110770366839001808

@thomasfuchs it's a NeXT, so it obviously plugs into the

@thomasfuchs there can be Apple record label and Apple computers and Apple Itunes Store…

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