yeah those pc plugs are nice. if someone figured out a way for the cable to detect whether a device is 230/240V or 120V and make it stop giving power if there’s a mismatch, that would he really cool. sadly, that’s probably not possible, and even if it was, it wouldn’t be widely adopted. sad.

i wonder how many pins could you fit with modern technology on something the size of a 30-pin connector? would that mean you could get more data/power being transferred? (the wire would have to get way thicker though)

oh yeah usb has loads of pins for data. no wonder barrel jacks were never used to transfer data…

oh yeah designing an idiot-proof power plug that can be rotated 360 degrees would be challenging ad well

woah that’s a very in-depth answer. yeah makes sense that cylindrical connectors aren’t actually designed to rotate a bunch. I assume it would be something similar to weird crackling sound when you turn an 3.5mm jack cable too hard?

wdym? I did say the advantage of USB-C was a universal standard. that’s definitely why everything uses USB-C, much more convenient.

My later paragraphs were focusing on a theoretical cylindrical wall plug (hence the comparison with the euro plug, schuko, uk plug, etc). sorry if just “plug” wasn’t clear.

idk, honestly any worldwide wall plug standard would be amazing, I wish the governments of the world focused on issues as simple as these

another downside to cylindrical usb plugs would probably be thinness, USB-C ports are quite a bit flatter and suits thinner devices a lot more

fair point, makes sense

good to be here! honestly the third-party app thing swayed me, there’s so many good apps (ice cubes, mastoot, mlem, impressia, etc.)

oh yeah that’s probably a good idea. When I wrote that section, maybe reviews hadn’t released yet or something. Btw, what is improved with the “ACE” models that make them worth it over the SV06 and SV08?

Originally this was a private project I was working was. The idea was when I ever had to buy anything, I wouldn’t need to research anything and can just check the ppt. now that I turned it into github pages, I wanted to share it to everyone. However, crossposting 17 times is definitely spam and I’m very sorry about this. if you want me to delete the post, please lmk

I use floorp (firefox fork) because I like having the tabs at the bottom. Makes them closer to the taskbar and a bit easier to navigate.

yeah, I’ve been told that this is spam. Should I delete the post?

oh yep, oops, I’ll go fix that

probably. I’ve searched around and there seems to be a few plugins for connecting OVOS with HA. no idea if those let you control devices though. Hopefully OVOS (and others like it) eventually develop into a worthy alternative to Alexa/Google/Siri!

I want to turn this repository eventually into an almost “buyer’s guide” of sorts for a wide range of different things It’s definitely not there yet, I’m missing quite a few important things and a lot of my picks are probably not actually the best/are biased, but if you think any of my picks are not good, please lmk!

oh this counts as self promotion, should I delete the post then? really sorry about this

yep, I fixed the typo! I’ve always thought it was spelt Mastadon. weird. I never used Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat/whatever even before I knew about the fediverse. I basically only use Mastodon to keep up to date with tech news through following accounts like android authority. Pixelfed I use just to share photos I’ve captured. Lemmy I use as what it is: a reddit alternative. Never used frendica before, but probably won’t try it since I personally have no use for it.

not sure, OVOS and Mycroft were the only two that was mentioned a lot online. There aren’t many good voice assistants that aren’t Alexa/Google/Siri so those two are your best options

fixed the link. maybe I typed it wrong. also btw I find that editing posts on lemmy has a bit of delay and doesn’t appear immediately, so if you still have problems, try this link: https://swarbler.github.io/bestof/tech/data-and-power/data/data