Making communication over barrel jack is not hard either.
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FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months agoThe only issue I have with USB power solutions is that it’s also capable of data transfer, which is bad. Imagine a dystopian future of being tracked by companies and governments by the places you plugged your shaver in at, of all the stupid things.
uis@lemm.ee 6 months ago
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
I’m discussing how it connects to the wall. You would be the second person to somehow misconstrue that. Wall outlets should not become USB.
uis@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I don’t understand you. Barrel jack is not usb.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
I was never at any point talking about barreljack or any other intermediary power supply adapters for the devices. You are the one talking about that. Go talk to somebody else about it. I am talking about the potential of USB becoming so commonplace as a means of power supply that wall outlets start using it as a standard, which would be bad.
echodot@feddit.uk 6 months ago
USB is capable of data transfer but only if there’s compatible hardware in the device. The shave it doesn’t have any capacity to transmit data so what’s it going to do there’s nothing to track all they get is “someone has plugged something that requires some power into this port, but I don’t know what cuz it doesn’t have any brains”
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
It could have something like a unique identifier with some extremely simple and cheap components, and if the wall outlets of the future become USB then the business could have the ability to log it and sell that usage data to advertisers, as well as identify guests beyond just the information given during check-in.
echodot@feddit.uk 6 months ago
But they’d actually have to put hardware into a razor to enable that and to what end? It’s not useful info to know when you are shaving, and you already carrying a phone around in your pocket surely that’s the biggest point of data leakage fix that first before you start worrying about all these conspiracy theories.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
This dude doesn’t believe in the “conspiracy” that companies invest in devices purely to track them and their habits. They just woke up from a coma since the 90s.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We should all use public chargers. I heard they’re safe
qaz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think the bluetooth/wifi functionality on most modern electronics is much more worrisome than that.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 5 months ago
There can be many problematic things independent of each other.
thantik@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s capable of data transfer…but to a power brick in the wall?
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Are you going to remove outlets and strip walls every hotel you ever visit to check for data? Because that somehow sounds both sane and also unhinged, good luck with that.
thantik@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Why would I need to? 110v outlets aren’t regularly equipped with Data transfer capability.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Your ignorance of the potential for harm due to it’s unlikelihood makes me think electrical engineering might be the wrong discipline for you.
uis@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Powerline communication is a thing.
Tarogar@feddit.de 5 months ago
I mean… If it has a USB socket and I can plug it into my PC… Surely it was intended for that. After all the USB ports on a PC are just as capable of delivering power.
Sure may be an unusual solution to charge a shaver but you could do that.
thantik@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Exactly. It’s going to be the most uncommon thing though. Convenient in an emergency if somehow you have a spare PC for charging and not a USB-C power brick…somehow…
But there’s not enough people doing it to justify what this guy is suggesting.
Tarogar@feddit.de 5 months ago
It’s also completely unnecessary since there are better devices for tracking and shenanigans available. Why bother with a shaver that has neither a camera or a microphone or is tracking location for anything when you can use a device that has all of that. Like pretty much every modern phone on the market, more so smartphones.
Regarding that other thing… In practice it could be that you are staying in a hotel room for any reason really but you forgot your power brick, still need to shave, but have a PC for one reason or another and a spare cable to use. However unlikely that is, but it’s not unheard of to forget the phone charger when going on a trip.