Root Access

qasdfdsaq

00:00

More seriously, no, I just had a USB cable that was routed around my bed frame to be always in easy reach to charge my phone at night

bwDraco

Also, @qasdfdsaq, see this:

Sep 29 at 3:56, by bwDraco

> WARNING: To reduce the risk of fire or damage to your device, use only USB chargers and cables that comply with the USB specifications.

- Optimal charging performance is attained with the supplied USB Type-C charger and cable. Before using a third-party USB Type-C charger or cable, be sure that it complies with the USB Type-C Cable and Connector Specification and USB Power Delivery Specification.
- Before using a USB Type-A charger and a Type-A to Type-C (legacy) cable, be sure that the cable complies with the legacy cable requirements defined in the USB Type-C Cable and Connector Specif…

(click through for full text)

We really need these sorts of warnings because of all the issues folks have had with USB Type-C equipment.

qasdfdsaq

What kinda sucks is I really just want one with six quick-charge ports, but my only options were five quick charge ports, or six ports with only two quick charge enabled. So I bought both, and was disappoointed with both.

bwDraco

Well, that would be expensive. Each port needs to have its own charge controller.

Again, QC is not cheap to implement.

Aibobot

ahh

qasdfdsaq

Seems like with everything else in the tech world it's impossible to get just what I want

FFS how hard can it be? If you can make a charger with 5 QC ports, and it costs the same as a 6-port one with 2 QC ports, how much of a stretch would one extra QC port be?!

Aibobot

00:14

pretty much

qasdfdsaq

@BenN Two smartphones I use daily (out of like, six total), smartwatch, portable charger, bluetooth speakers, camping light, wireless keyboard, wireless mouse... only thing I'm still short of is a USB-powered toothbrush

bwDraco

lol

qasdfdsaq

My laptop, external hard drive, and toothbrush are the three things I still have to carry separate power adapters for. everything else charges off micro USB

bwDraco

Smartphone, tablet, power bank, MP3 player, and a bunch of other stuff.

qasdfdsaq

Laptop hopefully moving to USB-PD when I replace it, external hard drive... could move to USB-C if I get a caddy with one of those built in batteries, which just leave the toothbrush -_-

Couple bicycle lights still use mini-USB instead of Micro-USB but meh, charger has USB-A ports and they need charging like twice a year.

bwDraco

00:20

It's a bit unusual for me to have to charge everything at once but if I'm preparing for a storm or other severe weather I want to be able to get everything charged up ASAP.

qasdfdsaq

One day my universal serial bus is also going to become a universal power bus

bwDraco

I do, however, routinely need to charge two or three devices at a time.

qasdfdsaq

And also universal display bus, since it supports displayport and HDMI now

bwDraco

@qasdfdsaq It already is:

> USB has evolved from a data interface capable of supplying limited power to a primary provider of power with a data interface.

qasdfdsaq

And 10GbE over thunderbolt

bwDraco

00:22

usb.org/developers/powerdelivery

qasdfdsaq

The only thing it's lacking is being my universal short bus

bwDraco

yesterday, by bwDraco

Affordable 10GbE ONCE AND FOR ALL! http://www.anandtech.com/show/10742/asus-xg-u2008-10gbase-t-network-switch-relea‌sed-249-usd (cc @qasdf)

Am I still ignored?

Aibobot

@bwDraco if you are you are

Remember, if @qasdfdsaq is blocking you, clearly they arn't interested in what you have to say

If they're just ignoring what you're saying, they are

erf. Apparently there's issues with the machine I migrated solo yesterday

well one of em

I'll need to work out where I went wrong and improve my workflow

but this is pretty much why I want to automate the shit out of everything

Bob

@qasdfdsaq Except you have no way to tell what a port supports without actually trying it :\

Aibobot

00:38

@Bob its a standard with many standards that are not standard?

bwDraco

!!/xkcd 927

ChatBot John Cavil

Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.

bwDraco

...but USB truly does everything.

Aibobot

USB C might. Eventually. If the planets are in the right alignment... ;p

Aibobot

01:04

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/…

bwDraco

@Aibobot tomshardware.com/news/…

Aibobot

yeah, read that too

bwDraco

01:27

Fixing 18V 2.4Ah Ryobi Lithium Power Tool Batteries

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Notice how one of the cells is bubbling.

Either the cell's under high pressure and the leak hole is tiny, or the cell is actively reacting with the air.

Bob

01:40

@JourneymanGeek Ok, I'm actually rather liking Lenovo support :P

Had to get them to update the warranty start date cause it defaulted to March. Process was surprisingly painless.

Journeyman Geek

02:14

IBM support back in the day was legendary

Aibobot

erf. Printer I moved was making grindy noises. Turns out an apparently non essential bit of plastic broke off

and was atop a gear

bwDraco

wtf?

lol

XKCD

04:13

The 78-rpm era was closer to the Civil War than to today.

djsmiley2k

06:50

'Samsung warns that some people will have a bad reaction to this lining, so the recovery kit also includes some gloves to protect your hands. They don't appear to be flame retardant, so if your Note 7 is currently ablaze, we'd suggest minimizing contact with it.'

Oh lord.

Boris_yo

07:15

@Burgi No.

How to block specific YouTube ad in Adblock or uBlock Origin. How to find URL first?

Burgi

07:32

i haven't had any youtube adverts since turning adblock on

also, morning!

@Boris_yo return works for me in both firefox and chrome

arda

@djsmiley2k damnn

djsmiley2k

Also, wtf is ceramic paper?!

Burgi

is it a ceramic that is paper thin?

my minion was DJing last night so i expect him to be late and covered in herpes from all the groupies

i'm also expecting him not to be any use at all

djsmiley2k

07:49

lol

Burgi

08:00

i'm suspicious now... he is his normal perky self

DavidPostill

@Burgi Hmm. He's taken something to keep himself awake? ;p

Burgi

coffee apparently

Bob

"coffee"

Bob

08:17

@JourneymanGeek bl tonight?

Aibobot

08:49

yup

Sameish timings?

djsmiley2k

09:12

superuser.com/review/first-posts/579783

Soooooooooo

new user (1 rep) provides old answer a links to non free product.

djsmiley2k

09:25

Not sure if spam :/

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k Borderline.

djsmiley2k

Yeah

Burgi

@djsmiley2k superuser.com/q/1131035/#comment1626122_1131035

djsmiley2k

ty @Burgi

superuser.com/review/first-posts/579546

Is a semi-colon valid in an email address even?!

'space and "(),:;<>@[] characters are allowed with restrictions (they are only allowed inside a quoted string, as described in the paragraph below, and in addition, a backslash or double-quote must be preceded by a backslash);' -- wikipedia

yey I did a beautiful answer for that question.

qasdfdsaq

09:56

@Aibobot naw, we need USB-D. USB-C sucks

Burgi

fracking hell

djsmiley2k

@Burgi D:

It begins!

Burgi

we've been paying $25/mth to github since late 2014

never been used

djsmiley2k

Doh

Private repos?

Though in business terms that's not a lot

Burgi

11:01

bitbucket does unlimited private repos for up to 5 devs

Bob

really now?

Oliver Salzburg

GitLab does unlimited free all around

Burgi

11:31

looks good, i hadn't heard of gitlab

not going to migrate our repos though

allquicatic

@Bob ?

Journeyman Geek

if it was a(n) aluminum can, is the an for the material or a can? ;p

Bob

@allquicatic Shouldn't it be "an"? :(

@JourneymanGeek It'd be an for the following word, afaik, because the whole point of an is to make pronunciation easier when the following is a vowel sound.

Burgi

i'd just call it a can

Journeyman Geek

it might be a steel can...

or a can can

Bob

11:35

@Burgi It's not even a can.

It's a plaque. And it specifically has to be aluminum.

But that's kinda beside the point here...

Journeyman Geek

Bob

books.google.com/ngrams/…

DavidPostill

books.google.com/ngrams/…

@bob :)

Bob

@DavidPostill bah, americans

DavidPostill

@Bob And Canadians :)

bah, Australians can't spell either :)

"Australian Labor Party"

Individual words where the preferred spelling is listed by the Macquarie Dictionary as being different from the British spellings include "program" (in all contexts) as opposed to "programme", "inquire" and derivatives "inquired", "inquiry", etc. as opposed to "enquire" and derivatives, "analog" (as opposed to digital) as opposed to "analogue", "livable" as opposed to "liveable", "guerilla" as opposed to "guerrilla", "yoghurt" as opposed to "yogurt", "verandah" as opposed to "veranda", "burqa" as opposed to "burka", and "past…

Burgi

11:59

@DavidPostill they also put an "O" at the end of everyones name

@DavidPostill-O

"G'Day" etc

DavidPostill

British and Australian English – Vocabulary

@Burgi ^^^ Some of those spellings are a bit weird :)

Burgi

some of those are british slang

DavidPostill

For example, how can you possibly spell "Eucalyptus" as "Gum"? ;p

Journeyman Geek

very carefully

Burgi

@DavidPostill i think the sap is sort of gummy and super sticky

arstechnica.co.uk/apple/2016/09/…

Bob

12:06

@DavidPostill eh, almost all slang, colloquial.

I've not even heard more than half of those

least not with that spelling...

@DavidPostill blame the americans for most of those :P

we have a bit of a weird cross

djsmiley2k

I've started putting out the feelers at work making it clear I know lots of stuff \o/

allquicatic

Crushed between two portals experiment

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djsmiley2k

@allquicatic ok that's trippy

Burgi

12:26

i don't remember the bit with portals on moving walls

djsmiley2k

I only played portal one

Burgi

portal 2 is great, the humour is brilliant

qasdfdsaq

13:15

Much as I hate Apple and Lightning, I have to say the connector is far superior to USB-C

allquicatic

13:25

@qasdfdsaq why?

Burgi

> I will happily grow a moustache for charity, will save me money at the waxer’s too.

Female Member of Staff

qasdfdsaq

@allquicatic Smaller, easier to use, more robust.

Crushproof

djsmiley2k

14:31

how do you crush a usb connector? - in 'normal' usage?

Burgi

trap it in the laptop lid as you close it

stand on it in a bag on the floor

Bob

@qasdfdsaq crushproof but more likely to bend/snap, no?

Type-C is weak to pinching along the middle, Lightning is weak to bending moments I think.

qasdfdsaq

@Bob Not really, the entire male connector is basically a solid chunk of metal

Micro-USB and USB-C are both a slither of plastic surrounded by a thin ring of metal. The Lightning connector is basically a solid chunk of metal the entire thickness of the MicroUSB connector

(Granted it's not 100% solid, since the electrical contacts still have to go through it, but it's close enough)

On the whole the only difference is the male and female sides get swapped, and the extraneous wasted space from the outer sheath on the female side is taken away and put into the male pin as extra metal reinforcement

And because of the unobstructed port shape it's easier to align and plug in

I really don't get why USB-C was designed the way it did. It's basically Lightning with three layers instead of two, meaning the space has to be divided between 50% more layers, resulting in thinner and weaker materials for every part.

qasdfdsaq

15:05

Behold my epic mspaint skillz

Journeyman Geek

@qasdfdsaq maybe they wanted the shielding to be seperate

Oliver Salzburg

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Q: Why am I unable to connect to certain WiFi networks?

We have a UniFi WiFi access point at our office, which has both a 2.4 GHz and a 5 GHz network. I am unable to connect to either network, even though I have no problem connecting to any other WiFi network and other devices can also connect just fine to the UniFi networks. Why is this and how can...

Do any of you know why this is?

qasdfdsaq

Behold my epicer mspaint skillz

@JourneymanGeek The shielding is already separate, it's on the other connector

Journeyman Geek

er sometimes you want shielding/ground on the cable

qasdfdsaq

The connector isn't the cable...

You can still shield the cable itself exactly the same, and there's no benefit to shielding a connector that's already shielded inside the female port

djsmiley2k

15:15

@OliverSalzburg No, but wifi is weird and I have seem simular things

For example, why can I never see my chromecast when on the 5ghz network at home, but normally it works when I connect to 2.4ghz?

How about when I changed the passphase at an old job, and that caused all the mobiles in the office to be unable to connect, but laptops/tablets were ok?!

qasdfdsaq

@Bob Well yes, but that's the standards fault for not having enough icons to indicate what it supports!

Actually that was one of my biggest arguments against USB-C to begin with... sure it could support anything but I'm yet to see any two devices that actually support the same capabilities on their USB-C ports

@djsmiley2k WiFi is a form of black magic. If you're not an expert in the dark arts, stay well away

djsmiley2k

Nod

It's crazy that somethings are still like this with tech tho.

qasdfdsaq

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Burgi

@OliverSalzburg is there any MAC filtering? are there enough DHCP addresses available?

qasdfdsaq

0

A: Why am I unable to connect to certain WiFi networks?

To be able to connect to the UniFi networks you need to change your Wi-Fi frequency band from Automatic to either 5 GHz or 2.4 GHz. As long as the mode is set to automatic, you will not be able to connect to either network. Why that is, is unclear to me. However other users reported similar prob...

WHATEVER Dave

15:23

hi

Oliver Salzburg

@Burgi No filtering and, yes. Why would changing the frequency on my Nexus have any impact on both of those anyway?

WHATEVER Dave

My device doesnt support 5ghz frequency

Well it does

but just not in ap mode

qasdfdsaq