yeah those pc plugs are nice. if someone figured out a way for the cable to detect whether a device is 230/240V or 120V and make it stop giving power if there’s a mismatch, that would he really cool. sadly, that’s probably not possible, and even if it was, it wouldn’t be widely adopted. sad.

i wonder how many pins could you fit with modern technology on something the size of a 30-pin connector? would that mean you could get more data/power being transferred? (the wire would have to get way thicker though)

oh yeah usb has loads of pins for data. no wonder barrel jacks were never used to transfer data…

oh yeah designing an idiot-proof power plug that can be rotated 360 degrees would be challenging ad well

woah that’s a very in-depth answer. yeah makes sense that cylindrical connectors aren’t actually designed to rotate a bunch. I assume it would be something similar to weird crackling sound when you turn an 3.5mm jack cable too hard?

wdym? I did say the advantage of USB-C was a universal standard. that’s definitely why everything uses USB-C, much more convenient.

My later paragraphs were focusing on a theoretical cylindrical wall plug (hence the comparison with the euro plug, schuko, uk plug, etc). sorry if just “plug” wasn’t clear.

idk, honestly any worldwide wall plug standard would be amazing, I wish the governments of the world focused on issues as simple as these

another downside to cylindrical usb plugs would probably be thinness, USB-C ports are quite a bit flatter and suits thinner devices a lot more

fair point, makes sense

good to be here! honestly the third-party app thing swayed me, there’s so many good apps (ice cubes, mastoot, mlem, impressia, etc.)

besides weird central/eastern europe chaos, there’s also no islands that are highlighted at all in north america, not even the big ones like cuba or haiti/dominican republic. I will probably add those at some point, but that’ll be later.

ok I fixed it, it should just be “art” (a library to make ascii art) and “colorama” (easier coloured text)

oh wait shoot did it just add all the modules installed on my computer…damn… how do I make a proper requirements.txt? that pip command definitely didn’t do it…

oh yeah that’s probably a good idea. When I wrote that section, maybe reviews hadn’t released yet or something. Btw, what is improved with the “ACE” models that make them worth it over the SV06 and SV08?

oop yep that’s probably important. I’ve added that to the repo!

sorry for the crossposting 17 times, that is definitely spam. really sorry about this, should I delete the post?

oh and also I should definitely include links to awesome-selfhosted and other similar github repos, that would definitely be good too.

that seems pretty cool. I should probably add links to similar github repos as well (e.g. awesome-selfhosted, awesome-[whatever], etc.)

ooh yes that’s a good idea. I can probably experiment with different colour palettes. maybe even a high contrast toggle option???

Originally this was a private project I was working was. The idea was when I ever had to buy anything, I wouldn’t need to research anything and can just check the ppt. now that I turned it into github pages, I wanted to share it to everyone. However, crossposting 17 times is definitely spam and I’m very sorry about this. if you want me to delete the post, please lmk

I use floorp (firefox fork) because I like having the tabs at the bottom. Makes them closer to the taskbar and a bit easier to navigate.