Comment on Not buying a shaver from Philips again..

• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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  • thantik@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why would I need to? 110v outlets aren’t regularly equipped with Data transfer capability.

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    • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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      • thantik@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think you may have a horrible misunderstanding about how the real world works. As well as the specifics of USB-PD, and other such things.

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    • uis@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Powerline communication is a thing.

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      • thantik@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re right, it totally is. Almost nobody uses it. For good reason; it’s prone to noise, slow speeds, circuit division, and licensing costs.

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• Tarogar@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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  • thantik@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Tarogar@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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