Not a big surprise, they did the same with Windows 98. Everything after the first 14 was silently dropped.

I never had an optical drive that had this connector, but it seems plausible that the relatively smaller pins could still carry enough power for it.

The most power hungy bit would probably be the spinning motor, and the mass being spun is much lower in an optical drive than for a magnetic drive platter.

Ah that rings a bell, some of my (older) PSU cables have one of those at the end after a daisy chain of SATA or Molex

Something like the rightmost in these pictures?

I think they are called Floppy connectors

also a non sata connector

Like the older Molex, or something really custom made to fuck users over?

Lots of people here forget that you can control the actions of the person before they die.

I did almost forget, thanks for the reminder. I just looked it up again, specifically you can control 23 days.

Ah man, that’s a shame. The P41 was one I remembered for being a surprisingly good value despite being a drive with good performance. I never had the chance of buying one, since I don’t have a free slot, and it wasn’t worth replacing my existing drive.

Laws don’t magically stop working just because you’re out of jurisdiction.

Actually I would say that most do. Extraterritorial jurisdiction is the exception, not the rule. Many countries apply it for cases of Genocide and War Crimes for example.

You are right though that many countries apply their laws to vessels under their flags in international waters

I’m not talking about giving up copyright to content.

Hm, once again I don’t understand your meaning, sorry. The public domain in my understanding is the totality of all content that is not under copyright protection. So “putting on public domain” sounds to me like you’re talking about giving up copyright. Please explain what you mean with that phrase, since I seem to be misunderstanding.

CC-0 means waiving any as much rights as possible legally, which depends on jurisdiction.

Yes I’m a little familiar, I looked through the CC licenses before and decided CC0 wasn’t the best fit for Switzerland. CC0 is meant to dedicate a work to the public domain, i.e. waive all copyright from it. But I now see that it also specifically has a public license fallback for jurisdictions where the public domain dedication doesn’t work, in Section 3.

I couldn’t find anything about default license of publicly available material in your country

There isn’t such a thing as a default license here, nor have I heard of such a thing in general before. In my understanding a license is an agreement for partial or total transfer of copyrights. But the default state, in my understanding, is that the copyright lies with the creator and no agreement for transfer exists. Authors have the copyright over a work from the moment creation of a work in Switzerland. They can make agreements with others to confer some of these rights. In Switzerland, in contrast to other places, the authors additionally have moral rights that cannot be broken or sold at all. For a more digestible intro I would suggest this site.

nor about the impossibility you mentioned

The absence of the possibility of making works public domain before the copyright term runs out automatically is harder to show, it’s not like it’s forbidden by statute, but simply that there isn’t a recognized mechanism for it. The best thing I can link is the Factsheet about Public Domain from the following page on the site of the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, check number 9 on page 4 in the PDF, it says:

9. Can I relinquish the copyright to one of my own works by assigning it to the public domain?

Copyright arises automatically and, in contrast to property law, there is no procedure for simply giving up this right. An author, therefore, does not have any direct possibility of giving a work to the public domain. However, he is at liberty to simply tolerate copyright infringement and to waive legal prosecution. In addition, an author can actively decide to make his work available under an appropriate Creative Commons licence, which is very similar to the public domain, or an equivalent type of public licence.

Whatever you put on public domain without explicit license, it becomes CC-0 equivalent.

What does “putting on public domain” mean to you? The way you say that sounds a little weird to me, like there is a misunderstanding here.

Dedicating copyrighted material to the public domain is a deliberate action in some jurisdictions, and impossible in others (like mine, Switzerland). Just publishing a text you wrote for public consumption is something different. That doesn’t affect your copyright at all. Unless you have an agreement with the publisher that you grant them a license to use your text by posting it to their website.

Speaking of illegal weird cables: I actually have a Y shaped cable, USB Type-A male to USB Type-A female with an extra red USB Type-A male to inject more power if the host can’t power the device otherwise.

I’ve used it once to attach an external HDD to an Android Phone with an OTG male micro-B to female A adapter. It worked but it was kind of stupid :-D

USB-B has several different ends, some more well known than others.

micro-B SuperSpeed is always a good one to surprise people with.

I’m 99% wireless these days so I wouldn’t be surprised if chorded chargers are largely on their way out, but I’m still curious.

How fast is the wireless charging these days? I’d be surprised if it’s anywhere near the higher USB PD 3.1 modes.

cables and chargers are “active” in the sense they negotiate charge rates and other functionality

Just so you know “active cable” already has a separate meaning: They repeat the USB signals somewhere in the middle for a longer transmission distance.

I think the better idea is to pick up the terminology from the USB-IF, they speak of electronical marking, or e-markers in the cables. It’s usually a small chip integrated in one of the plug assemblies.

e.g. the device might charge with USB C but they’ll gimp the data transfer rates on non-pro phones.

Just so you know, there are others who have slow speed on USB Type-C already. My mother’s Galaxy A52 has a USB Type-C port that has only USB 2.0 support for data transfer, but with USB PD 3.0 PPS charging up to 25 W.

To me it’s legitimate to use USB Type-C for better power delivery even if the chipset runs only at USB 2.0 speeds for data transfer. But hobbling a fast chipset just for product segmentation would be shitty. It is something I could see Apple doing though.

You just reminded me of this video again, that explains how unfortunately the world building that went into the music didn’t make it to the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL5sX8VmvB8

When I still had an iPod Touch many years ago, that only worked after Jailbreaking. The way they lock down the file system on iOS has been one of the worst parts of the Apple Walled Garden in my opinion.

Locked bootloaders can prevent that. Or proprietary hardware drivers can make it unworkable.