Post Ay3KE0OQtu5ABm4VCS by negative12dollarbill@techhub.social
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(DIR) Post #Ay3HIEg9Qdonn7gW9I by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-10T04:26:14Z
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this stupid USB drive doesn't work if you jam it into the ethernet port on accidentyet. note to self: make a flash drive that you plug into the ethernet port.
(DIR) Post #Ay3Hk8EJ03Tptjxhvk by Novyx@mastodon.social
2025-09-10T04:31:18Z
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@foone Need a USB-C to Ethernet adapter so you can connect anything through the Ethernet port. Like a little Ethernet mitten.
(DIR) Post #Ay3HukbRBUxJo1qTL6 by raptor85@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-09-10T04:33:16Z
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@foone make it two sided and have the other side be rj45 serial.
(DIR) Post #Ay3IEnWo1AosfcEpBw by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-10T04:36:46Z
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I've already got some of the parts I'd need to make this, thanks to my ongoing "ethernet keyboard" project
(DIR) Post #Ay3IKEhQQIYOO8nZ20 by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-10T04:37:51Z
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that one is currently on hold thanks to my roommate's new terminal having a broken "M" key
(DIR) Post #Ay3IN2dXjCptqUJv8a by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-10T04:38:05Z
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(I loaned her the last PS/2 keyboard I have on hand)
(DIR) Post #Ay3JtGJgVEAJUdxYG0 by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-10T04:55:26Z
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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
(DIR) Post #Ay3K9bZfEbr23YE7Iu by ely@mastodon.green
2025-09-10T04:58:19Z
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@fooneI like the PoE > USB C thingies
(DIR) Post #Ay3KE0OQtu5ABm4VCS by negative12dollarbill@techhub.social
2025-09-10T04:59:04Z
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@foone So a little tiny NAS using Power Over Ethernet?
(DIR) Post #Ay3KSVragwZlqXcyxc by deetwenty@todon.nl
2025-09-10T05:01:43Z
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@foone would probably require some kind of mini (or even micro) ethernet plug. And in a universe like that wifi would be used a bit less.
(DIR) Post #Ay3L4S4hE4Zn6HqevY by deuxnise@rivals.space
2025-09-10T05:08:33Z
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@foone we'd have naming standards like HNPoE (High Negociated Power over Ethernet) Rev. 1
(DIR) Post #Ay3LI7hdlU05yLaDiq by Novyx@mastodon.social
2025-09-10T05:10:57Z
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@foone In replaying the Mega Man Battle Network series, I was reminded that according to MMBN6, all the “jack in” ports operate over IR, so you can bounce a signal off mirrors to a port, if you need another cursed alternate reality. It does contradict the way it’s treated in the rest of the series, though, which honestly feels more like your Universal Ethernet world.
(DIR) Post #Ay3LNrI5hJ5moCMqK8 by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-10T05:12:05Z
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@Novyx oh the universe where we standardized on IrDA is a deeply cursed one
(DIR) Post #Ay3LqkMcWxtditGFXM by Novyx@mastodon.social
2025-09-10T05:17:07Z
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@foone Might as well give it one more try though, right? Maybe increasing the level of cursed-ness would bring the rest of reality back in line.
(DIR) Post #Ay3Num4KKjss4rkj5s by Novyx@mastodon.social
2025-09-10T05:40:26Z
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@foone Also minor correction, I just remembered it was in 5, not 6. 6 is the one that shows a real map of the world that contradicts the fictional world map from 4. Fun connection there is that 2 was both the first game that showed “Electopia” to be a weird Europe/America combo as it appears in that map in 4, and showed a wireless jack-in adapter that really doesn’t make sense if it’s using IR for the ports, unless they have IR to RF adapters.
(DIR) Post #Ay3NyByeSlJLIejBgG by b_rawr@furry.engineer
2025-09-10T05:40:40Z
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@foone rj45, both the socket and the plug, is so physically fragile. we'd have to standardise on something more resilient and the world would be a happier place
(DIR) Post #Ay3OAHLwInyvRmNrSy by helchacam@infosec.exchange
2025-09-10T05:43:10Z
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@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.
(DIR) Post #Ay3OG6reDAqSeezmVc by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-10T05:44:19Z
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@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
(DIR) Post #Ay3Q0VIFoh2BhB7uwy by hennichodernich@radiosocial.de
2025-09-10T06:03:46Z
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@foone No, they would communicate over NetBEUI.
(DIR) Post #Ay3QCGtLBirKVJ5KT2 by foone@digipres.club
2025-09-10T06:06:01Z
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@hennichodernich good point, right
(DIR) Post #Ay3RqZyHlkiLDTBLIu by frenshape@beige.party
2025-09-10T06:24:24Z
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@foone It might be going better if they'd used something other than 10Base5 with vampire taps
(DIR) Post #Ay3RtsPdf5o7HNY4GG by fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk
2025-09-10T06:24:40Z
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@foone goddammit the tab broke on my power bank again
(DIR) Post #Ay3SsWF0i1QqBFUfiK by thepi@urusai.social
2025-09-10T06:36:00Z
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@foone The printers don't work, computers keep 'malfunctioning' because someone put a pile of things on a discarded-but-still-connected wireless keyboard, and security is an absolute unworkable bloody nightmare.In short, it's business as usual.
(DIR) Post #Ay3VL4zTIyNHyDyKES by Krazov@mstdn.social
2025-09-10T07:03:29Z
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@foone "Bring me a bucket of Internet" could finally be possible.
(DIR) Post #Ay3Z7p0PpArURkLaIy by fedops@fosstodon.org
2025-09-10T07:45:55Z
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@foone if nothing else we would have proper locking connectors instead of this friction fit BS. That alone would make it worth it.
(DIR) Post #Ay3cFPZqYCa7lDELpI by ignaloidas@not.acu.lt
2025-09-10T08:21:30.830Z
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@foone@digipres.club ethernet is, uhh, comparatively expensive for small stuffthough I could see it happening now with 10mbps single pair short range ethernet (it's simple enough that you could bit-bang it on a micro assuming you have GPIO fitting the requirements (1.2V, proper differential input/output), and if the GPIO isn't up to it, seems like there's gonna be simple 'transciever' chips that turn simple signals into what the physical layer expects)
(DIR) Post #Ay3dq2hOfr2zTQnE4O by gabe@mendeddrum.org
2025-09-10T08:38:41Z
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@foone RFC 1606 has some related thoughts.
(DIR) Post #Ay3iAIYFqOB4FQQlv6 by th@social.v.st
2025-09-10T09:27:18Z
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@foone some automotive systems have gone all-in on 48V PoE for their communication bus. too bad the connectors are so chonky.
(DIR) Post #Ay3iEM84U4y2VC7Q5w by happydisciple@mendeddrum.org
2025-09-10T09:26:16Z
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@foone Psssh, given PoE and EoP, at home we’ve rationalised and now have PoP and EoE, depending on the order of plugging the various doodads in.
(DIR) Post #Ay4ZNkizheJ0xckrXU by Epic_Null@infosec.exchange
2025-09-10T19:23:35Z
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@foone One might call it Networked Attached Storage
(DIR) Post #Ay4nkzs6x3LBxOzsqO by oheso@ieji.de
2025-09-10T22:04:37Z
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@foone I’ve done this
(DIR) Post #Ay6wAxaxE7CmNHmcVs by AVincentInSpace@furry.engineer
2025-09-11T22:48:19Z
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@foone the amount of thinking I had to do to convince myself this would actually be worse than USB-C is a little concerning