As someone who's dealt with multiple issues caused by faulty USB cables, being able to buy cables that are actually built to spec would make my life a ton easier. I'm sure someone out there who will also benefit from these.
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tristanj commented on Starlink satellites being lowered from 550 km to 480 km twitter.com/michaelnicoll... · Posted by u/wmf
Is this potentially a response to Russia's posturing around anti satellite weapons?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/intelligence-agencies-sus...
It's more likely because of the starlink satellite that exploded on December 19.
https://www.theverge.com/news/847891/a-starlink-satellite-se...
tristanj commented on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels bringbackdoors.com/... · Posted by u/bariumbitmap
The purpose of no bathroom doors is to limit their use to single people or couples. They want business travelers to get a separate rooms or upgrade.
No, it is because doors take up a lot of space. A typical door is 3 feet wide, and requires 7-14 feet of empty space to operate [0]. You can't place any furniture, toiletries, or luggage racks in this space. For a typical hotel room of 300sq feet, this "dead space" represents 3-5% of the room. Removing the door allows hotels to decrease the size of each room, and fit more rooms on each floor, increasing profit.
This is why many newer hotels choose to sliding doors, which barely take up any space, or just remove doors entirely.
[0] For a door of r=3 feet, A door swings a minimum of 90 degrees, which takes 3.14 * 3*2 / 4 = 7.065 sq feet at a minimum to 14.1 sq feet to operate.
This is completely illogical. There is no world that wireless charging or data transfer was going to be as good as wired. Was the iPhone all the sudden not going to work in the millions of cars that had wired CarPlay?
My statements are substantiated by sources going back almost a decade. See my other comment for details.
And when you view what Apple is doing from their long-term vision of the iPhone becoming a transparent piece of glass, it starts making sense.
This was a common trope on Reddit but makes literally zero sense. There are a ton of wired accessories that this would make completely useless overnight, including things like CarPlay.
And for what?
You probably viewed this as a common trope because you were not aware of the actual source of the rumors. No, these are not claims are not from reddit, they're from Mark Gurman in 2018.
> Apple designers eventually hope to remove most of the external ports and buttons on the iPhone, including the charger, according to people familiar with the company’s work. During the development of the iPhone X, Apple weighed removing the wired charging system entirely. That wasn’t feasible at the time because wireless charging was still slower than traditional methods. [0]
Actual rumors include a prototype of said phone making rounds around the office.
And again, Mark Gurman from 2025:
> "But all of these changes were supposed to be just the tip of the iceberg: Apple had originally hoped to get ever more ambitious with this model... An even bigger idea was to make the Air device Apple’s first completely port-free iPhone. That would mean losing the USB-C connector and going all-in on wireless charging and syncing data with the cloud."
> "But Apple ultimately decided not to adopt a port-free design with the new iPhone, which will still have a USB-C connector. One major reason: There were concerns that removing USB-C would upset European Union regulators, who mandated the iPhone switch to USB-C and are scrutinizing the company’s business practices." [1]
[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-21/why-apple...
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-03-16/apple-...
I think you missed GP’s point. The briar patch is a reference to the story of Br’er Rabbit, which involves pretending to object to a punishment that one really doesn’t mind at all (and might even prefer).
The GP is suggesting that Apple was more than happy to have this mandate. I tend to agree: they wanted to switch the iPhone to USB-C anyway, but there’s always people who are going to be upset that their Lightning accessories no longer work or need an adapter. But this way they can say that the EU forced their hand. They get what they wanted all along, but they also get a scapegoat who can take the blame for the remaining downsides.
My understanding is that Apple didn't add USB-C to iPhones because they planned to remove all ports from the iPhone entirely. They envisioned it as a wireless only device.
EU regulation stopped this from happening, and now once they added USB-C it's difficult to take this feature away. I predict we'll be stuck with the USB-C port and form factor on most phones for the next decade.
tristanj commented on Run Docker containers natively in Proxmox 9.1 (OCI images) raymii.org/s/tutorials/Fi... · Posted by u/jandeboevrie
It's unclear to me why running Docker directly in Proxmox (it's just Debian) and using it like any other Docker host is a bad idea, and why this extra layer of abstractions is preferable.
Docker has security issues if you're not careful, and it's frankly kind of a shitshow out of the box with defaults. Maybe that's part of the reason. But I struggle to see how a bespoke solution like this is the right answer.
Proxmox is a hypervisor OS, and its value comes from its virtualization and container-management features. These features include being able to pause, resume, snapshot, backup/restore from snapshot, and live-migrate VMs or LXCs to another server in just a couple hundred milliseconds of downtime. Once you run docker on the hypervisor itself, you lose these features, which defeats the purpose of running Proxmox in the first place.
There's also the security angle. Containers managed by Proxmox are strongly isolated from the host, but containers running on Docker sidestep this isolation model. Docker is not insecure by design, but it greatly increases the attack surface. If the hypervisor gets compromised, the entire cluster of servers will also get compromised. In general, as little software as possible should be installed on the host.
I would challenge any retail business to beat the 2.5% rate on their cash transactions once the various transit, security and banking fees have been factored in. Those armored trucks don't work for free.
The US payment networks are also incredibly robust with some fantastical operational guarantees. I cannot recall the last time I couldn't get an online authorization at a merchant terminal. There are rooms of people monitoring these things like a hawk 24/7/365. Imagine being called by your ISP proactively when they detect >.01% packet loss on your line. That was my job for an entire year. Calling banks on the phone in the middle of the night because we think there might be an issue before there actually is an issue. Statistically speaking, this is one of the most certain things in the life of a typical American. Visa alone processes a quarter trillion (10^12) transactions per year. We've got a lot of samples that say the system works really well and might be worth the cost.
You can point to regulation and artificial moats for prohibiting competition, but it's genuinely a difficult problem to solve, even if you can do it purely digital. Trust is the most challenging element. I think moving cash, checks and other paper around is easier in a lot of ways.
Visa's merchant fee for in-person transactions is only 0.3% in Europe, with the exact same robustness and operational guarantees you describe.
tristanj commented on How did Tether profit $13B in 2024 from USDT? antongolub.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/wslh
I’m convinced that in its early years, Tether operated as a scam, skimming deposits and creating coins out of thin air. But once they realized they had accidentally created a money-printing machine, they attempted to become legit and quietly buried the evidence of their past.