@a1ba To be fair, you probably don't want to be able to connect to just about anything and most probably very much prefer using an external (and sacrificial) safety module you've vetted for the direct connection.
Especially for electrical instead of optical connections.
@LordCaramac @yura @a1ba I think that lends itself more to induced lethal disturbances than optical systems (let's ignore "directed energy weapon" levels of energy, because that's also lethal).
Optical systems don't need to involve a socket. Point-to-point FSO is a thing.
No WiFi or Bluetooth or Jitsi or anything like that, that can be hacked too easily, just some data transfer method that only works over a distance of a few millimetres
WiFi and Bluetooth have issues based both on being disasters on a software level and being largely broadcast-based.
only works over a distance of a few millimetres
That's more of a current-implementation thing than a strict physical limit (ignoring the use of relays to bypass that).
An opaque armband (for example) covering an optical transceiver provides a considerably more reliable way to ensure only a single device is being communicated with directly.
@halva sorry but after seeing your pfp I can't help it
I'm addicted I'm addicted I'm addicted I'm addicted, or so I think 
a USB C port can do power, data, display, and ethernet simultaneously@a1ba If USB-A and USB-C are any indicator, even if they DID standardize on one you'd still have problems where Bob's port supported ⅔ of the optional spec and Mary's support a different ⅔ and Tom couldn't afford the good jack so his only supports the non-optional parts, while Ted's a techbro with all the options supported who writes software for our cyberbrains & can't understand why "stupid users" keep complaining / having problems.
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@a1ba Meanwhile your dad got the cheap cable on Amazon because it's "A usb-x cable" and can't understand why it doesn't work, and couldn't know that it's because the cable doesn't support OmniVid transfer protocol because it doesn't bother to mention that anywhere.
In another room his cat's busy chewing through the only cable in the house that would actually have worked.
Now I'm picturing something like this sticking out of the back of a neck.
@a1ba @n_dimension What?
Not in the original works. See Neuromancer and Case is trying to jack into the main computer of a Space Yacht.
Also Pat Cadigan’s novel Synners
@a1ba micro USB would be the next worst imo, I just happen to have a frustrating history with devices that had a mini USB port.
Would really want something symmetric like usb-c but with minimal power delivery; don't need to end up smoldering on my net running chair because a hundred watts were delivered to my cranium
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