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vvatermeloneon EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic devices

The middle piece is thin and does look fragile, but you can't put any real side load on it. The outer wall of the connector takes that force before you can put any real force on the middle. Unless you're jamming a flathead screwdriver or something in it.

Beyond that, the springloaded contacts are on the cable end with type-c, with lightning it's inside the phone. I don't think it's a particularly common failure mode, but having less moving parts in the expensive bit is generally a good idea.

vvatermeloneon Speedsolving Rubik's Cube: 8355 Method

https://youtu.be/54SGrZbLcoE

Not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but but it was pretty much the basis for my interest in "big" cubes a few years back.

vvatermeloneon Raid-Z Expansion Feature for ZFS Goes Live

They "lost everything" because they failed to set up even the most basic and critical maintenance functions built into ZFS. I don't think the responsibility in this incident could fall any more squarely on the shoulders of the people who set it up.

vvatermeloneon Show HN: Veganize any recipe site with EatKind Chrome extension

This was the first (of many) vegan cookbooks I've collected over the years and to this day is still the one I reach for the most, very well thought out.

vvatermeloneon Google deploying planes over cities for 3D maps (2012)

This is done at a satellite level nowadays rather than fixed-wing aircraft. Microsoft/Bing did this as well and ended up spinning off their aerial collection division for that same reason, not too long after this article was published.

There's just not a huge demand for higher quality imagery by the general public, and those industries who do need higher quality/georeferenced imagery are willing to pay for it.

vvatermeloneon Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns

And if GrapheneOS is too hardcore for you, CalyxOS

vvatermeloneon While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

I've been having bizarrely similar issues with my XPS lately, except that none of the keys work except the i key, even with the on-screen keyboard. Only happens once in a blue moon, but as in your case, requires a hard reset.

vvatermeloneon On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking

There is something about sleep deprivation that makes me so vividly visually creative, things and image flow in my mind like they otherwise never do. Unfortunately I haven't found a way to trigger this any other way, so my only real creative moments tend to happen in the middle of the night where they aren't much use to anyone.

vvatermeloneon Apple censors engraving service, report claims

>if the engraving resembles SQL content (e.g., “; DELETE FROM”) ... then the API crashes and returns an HTTP 403 code and an HTML error page as opposed to the expected JSON response

Poor Bobby Tables can't even get his name on his phone.

vvatermeloneon Breathing exercise lowers blood pressure better than working out, medication

That's a very interesting idea. I've always breathed through my mouth while running due to not getting "enough" air through my nose, and also fight with abdominal pains whilst running as well. I'll give this a shot tonight actually, in theory it seems very similar to any other kind of resistance training.

vvatermeloneon I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC

Are you able to play GTAV on linux? Or just given up on the ability to play it? That and a few racing sims are the only things keeping me on windows these days.

vvatermeloneon Show HN: Test if your (US) phone number is in the leaked Facebook data

Where would one find the data though?

vvatermeloneon Disqus, a dark commenting system

There's an extension called Epiverse that does something similar. It used to have its own comment sections like Dissenter, but has since shifted to just showing discussions on reddit/HN that point to the webpage you're currently on. It's actually how I discovered HN.

vvatermeloneon FunkWhale: Decentralized Music Server

Jellyfin is fully open-source and doesn't require any third party authentication. It's not quite feature complete versus Plex but it is very close, and has never been a issue for me or my users.

vvatermeloneon Apple's MacBook revival plan: Bring back old features

I don't think it's fair to represent that graph as the death of the standalone camera, at least with regard to the 2020 data. The fact that nobody could go anywhere or be with anyone probably had a lot to do with it.

vvatermeloneon Aegis Authenticator – Open-source 2FA for Android

You can require biometric authentication to view the codes, that's the main reason I use it over GA.

vvatermeloneon Facebook Joins the Blender Development Fund

They have plenty of corporate sponsors already:

https://fund.blender.org/

I'm generally a Facebook doomsayer but in this case I don't really see them being able to throw much weight around.

vvatermeloneon Essay: How do you describe TikTok?

I understand that at the end of the day, entertainment is just what entertains you, but it's hard for me to dismiss the idea that concentrated & repeated instant gratification is a detriment to a person's mind outside the scope of entertainment. This isn't a criticism of tiktok specifically but I think it's probably the purest form of this idea that I've come across.