Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️USB should have been crimpable.
I want to crimp my own USB cables, dang it. I need them to be a specific length!
alternate universe where USB just used RJ11 connectors
gloriouscow@foone i do wonder why aren't we just using ethernet for everything
@gloriouscow I know, right? just use PoE for power delivery!
@foone never run out of ports again, just add a 48 port rackmount switch and connect more keyboards
@gloriouscow you know I've never tried to see what the practical maximum for keyboards connected to one machine is. I should test
@foone I know if you connect two mice to Windows they both control the cursor which is fun. I've never tried three.
Do the needful, foone.
@gloriouscow I'm going to ewaste later today and they've got an infinite gaylord of OEM keyboards, I could pick up some supplies...
infinite gaylord was my nickname in high school
@foone also the hardest boss in elden ring
Alice@foone @gloriouscow an infinite WHAT
Koopa512 
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@confusionunknown @gloriouscow gaylords are the large cardboard boxess used in warehousing and recycling
@foone @gloriouscow that is an incredible name
did you originate that name or is this a thing that everyone calls them
did you originate that name or is this a thing that everyone calls them
Steve
@lilstevie @confusionunknown @foone
they're very common for stuff like returns and recycling because they have an open top and you just chuck shit in there.
although i was unfamiliar with the term myself until I got a job at Staples and was instructed to go put something "in the gaylord". I must have had a particular look on my face at that moment because my manager just continued "...its the big cardboard box" in a somewhat exhausted way.
they're enormous and like an inch thick and basically indestructible.
people joke about living in cardboard boxes but you could totally live in a gaylord and if you had two you could probably rent them out as a 1 bedroom apartment in Manhattan for $2000 a month
Dan Cassidy 🦌@gloriouscow @foone There is somewhere in Windows an API that lets you treat two or more mice as separate inputs. Possibly DirectInput. I have seen games that support this for local multiplayer, but I can't remember what off the top of my head. (Doom Legacy maybe?)
Chip@foone @gloriouscow I understand USB has a maximum of 127 devices, per controller. So depending on how many slots and on-board USB hosts you have... probably thousands.
Jeremy@foone would probably go something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwaxlttWow
How Many USBs Can You Plug In At Once?
s0 Is Not A Sysadmin@foone @gloriouscow PoE is expensive & relatively inefficient because of the isolation requirement and relatively high voltage to cover the distance req. I can’t see a good way that you could meet both sets of needs with one bus spec. And god, imagine the hell of charging cord fires if people’s shitty knotted phone cords were running 56VDC.
No, what we should do is invent another New Standard of bus!
แอท-ทริด@s0 @foone @gloriouscow i have at times vaguely spitballed what it would take to modify a laptop into accepting PoE...
@astrid @foone @gloriouscow good news! you can buy PoE USB-C Ethernet adapters that do both network and PoE charging power in. I have one mostly to annoy my colleague the infrastructure admin by ‘stealing’ power from the switches at work.
