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Douglas Adams on Dongly Things: http://douglasadams.com/dna/980707-03-a.html http://douglasadams.com/dna/980707-03-a.html Spolsky on Martian headsets: https://
by netcan 6y ago
Douglas Adams on Dongly Things:
http://douglasadams.com/dna/980707-03-a.html http://douglasadams.com/dna/980707-03-a.html
Spolsky on Martian headsets: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/03/17/martian-headsets/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/03/17/martian-headsets/
It turns out that making power/data cables work without irritating the hell out humanity as a whole is a task that humans are uniquely unsuited to solving. We'll have to wait for AI or aliens to fix this.
Meanwhile, stop expecting the next standard to work as a standard. Buy a nice little bag for housing your cables, dongles, adapters and such. Keep it stocked. Remember to throw out defunct ones biannually.
The problem is not going away.
- TOGoS 6y agoDouglas Adams wants a standard 12V connector? Those 2.1mm barrel plugs are basically that. Most any 12V LED strip you buy from amazon will come with jacks already attached and maybe include a power supply. Half the small electronic devices I buy (USB hubs, Ethernet switches, external hard drives) use it, though sometimes they want 9V instead of 12.
- netcan 6y agoYep, but if he was still around he'd still have to have articles about how he has rooms full of little dongly things and doesn't want any more. He was one of us. Believed problems like these could be solved. It turned out that the problem of having to own a collection of dongly things cannot be solved. It turns out that they are intrinsic to human nature.