Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️this stupid USB drive doesn't work if you jam it into the ethernet port on accident
yet. note to self: make a flash drive that you plug into the ethernet port.
I've already got some of the parts I'd need to make this, thanks to my ongoing "ethernet keyboard" project
that one is currently on hold thanks to my roommate's new terminal having a broken "M" key
(I loaned her the last PS/2 keyboard I have on hand)
how do you think things are going in the alternate universe where instead of USB, we standardized on ethernet?
external peripherals plug in over ethernet, and just communicate over tcp/ip. usb hubs? you just use ethernet hubs. you recharge your phone and laptop and ebook over PoE.
There's PoE powerbanks and many people keep them in their purse/bag
bryan allir@foone That may also be the universe where Al Gore won the 2000 US presidential election. Gore is associated with the Internet so it makes sense people would be inspired to create all internet everything. He's also associated with fighting climate change through his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth") so in addition to standardizing on Ethernet, they probably would have had fewer climate catastrophes than we've had.
@helchacam so, fun fact: one of my short story universes has a dimension which is the "al gore was president" one and they have serial ports on everything, because they standardized on rs232