utter nonsense of the deranged

Raspbian (modified Debian Jesse) on a raspberry pi 2B (which I am still using over a decade later to host some discord bots). Also now using Debian 1Bookworm on an old optiplex as a media server.

I’m still using the old 2014 apple airport extreme as a router/NAS.

Based on this pin configuration, there’s only two dedicated power pins, which isn’t very good for large wattages. The rest are twinax signal pairs separated by ground to reduce crosstalk.

Usually when connectors are designed for power delivery, they’ll use bigger contacts to reduce the contact resistance (signal contacts tend to be small so you can fit more of them in the same space). I’m guessing the original DP connector form factor wasn’t made with such high power in mind, so it would make a lot of sense to use the spare signal pins for power delivery in this case. Running too much power through too few small pins can damage the contacts, by either by instant-welding the contact surfaces or by overheating the connector (see NVIDIA GPUs) ((also high voltages can cause arcing, which even in the best case will seriously degrade any connector)).

Take all of this with a huge grain of salt cause I just learned this stuff like a month ago, and my department has nothing to do with any of it. Just though someone might find it interesting.

Hi! I actually work at a major electrical connector company, so maybe I can shed some light on this.

I have no idea.

That’s a lot of power! Are there even any devices that use this?

Tech guy invents the concept of giving instructions

I used to not understand them, but learning how their internal mechanism functions has helped a lot. Now I can just visualize what’s happening inside the infernal contraption

I actually really like physics, and it’s 100% because I’m fucked up and evil

Huh. This was my first time seeing a 95 year old’s mutilated penis and scrotum floating in formaldehide. Thanks (?) for sharing

They had this at Stop & Shop for a while in the US. Don’t know if that’s still how it works though.

I count myself blessed to have never seen this video. That and 2G1C.

I’m really not familiar with the political and social climate of the Phillipines, and I know it’s easier said than done, but surely there’s a better way to deal with drug use than murdering every drug addict (and probably a lot of other innocent people too). From an outside perspective that just seems horrifying.

Me resisting the urge to critique the lighting and framing of the nudes my friend sent me

There are a lot of steps in converting color spaces to suit people’s individual monitors and in compressing files to be stored on web servers.

Sometimes rounding errors happen. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Is that a real website? I’m scared to check

That’s not a logo either; It’s a photograph

That’s not a logo; That’s a font

8 year old me turning the box legendary into an hm slave 👀

“macOS has been here” “how can you tell?” “.DS_Store”