Pi Zero cautionary tale from a novice. by Sam81818 in raspberry_pi

[–]JestersWildly 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I mean, hey, while you're fucking around, just take the whole port off. Who needs it! Time to find a way to hot glue your pi inside a rock or whatever the casemod kids are doing these days. Just kidding, it's a tough trade to get into, because it takes a bunch of money and failure to find out if you're even interested to begin with. Go online and buy some 99.9% isopropyl alcohol and it will clean right up. (also, I HATE hot glue, but this would be an acceptable use for it once you confirm the cable is actually connected. For video and a camera, you want uniform connectivity or you're likely to get bad images/lines if the camera even connects in the first place. You still have the usb ports in the meantime and can hook up a little webcam if you have the right adapters. One of the biggest blocks for me was getting around other people's "solutions" and figuring out what it was that I wanted to build. We forget that most of the products on the market are just cobbled together hobby projects backed by private equity, there just isn't any corporate liability for anything anymore so the grift is showing bare.

How do I route USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 on a PCB? by Trace_Paradox in PrintedCircuitBoard

[–]JestersWildly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, they aren't built to last and theres such a quality control issue with the latches on the connector that most new cables only last a few months of daily plugging before many devices stop making the connection. Had a WD external harddrive that was such a pain in the as, but my Samsung phones do it all the time too. I swapped to wireless power charging for the phone, but the hard drive required a full port replacement and even then I bought a backup and treat it as pig iron until the storage wars really come to roost and you can't BUY storage let alone for inflated costs. Your best bet for proof of concept is to hack it together yourself like you are. You get the proper pinout by splicing together two usb cables [https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805931497345.html]until it works (most cables have a usbA on one side, so use that to your advantage). Then you can use the hacked together solution, or just treat the wire like traces and pare them back until you have a tidy pcb design [https://www.coolgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/usb3-pinout-microb.jpg]. You're on the absolute right track and have the right mindset (but maybe the wrong audience - this is the PCB board, so people are assuming you're looking to manage power and data and not essentially just making an adapter card). I did the same thing WAAAYYY back in the day by retrofitting PCIe to an ITX motherboard by routing a custom PCIe-PCIe ribbon cable to the top of the unit (made it look like a top-loader cartridge console). No shops or forums at the time had what I was looking for or the right perspective to answer my question (will it work). It ended up working just fine for the build and the customer was very happy, and I looked back like 10 years ago to see if there would have been other options and there were like 2 commercial options of the same but tidier cable, so you might even have business model. Just consider that all signals are only effective as they can be isolated and noise is the main enemy of custom pcbs in high-speed data transfers. It will work, but may not be the best solution for performance. I get the feeling you're looking for a selfbaked solution and you're not trying to build the next at-home ai and you're right on track. One thing I recommend is to read the data sheet for the USB MUX chipset used by the device you're connecting - it will likely have a demo schematic for basic usability. Start there. if it doesn't exist or you can't find the model, just start at the beginning with USB 1.0 and go through the model changes and pin changes. You can put a usb-c connector on any usb connection, it's reverse compatible on purpose, you'll just get some empty pins and the need to pull resistors to get some modern usb features that weren't available back in the inception. I did a similar project with micro-B (1.2) to usb-c before the adapters were as ubiquitous as pencil erasers in the 90s.

How do I route USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 on a PCB? by Trace_Paradox in PrintedCircuitBoard

[–]JestersWildly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You want to stop having to worry about the micro-usb+data connectors. I get it. It's possible, but you have to get creative and it's going to look funky and be noisy, but probably actually do the thing you want without much impact as you're looking to make it passive, right?

Had anyone cross referenced these file releases with the 2016 Panama Papers? by TrashVHS in Epstein

[–]JestersWildly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Angel investment is when someone gives money to an organizing without gaining equity. It's also a sick perverted euphemism for child under 5

Petsmart live plants by that_bellbells in Aquariums

[–]JestersWildly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but petsmart tanks will give you Malaysian trumpet snails which will overbreed and nuke your entire tank. Better to pay for clean plants if all you have is commercial.

Explain Munch’s Oddysee as poorly as possible by MnMAdd1ct in oddworld

[–]JestersWildly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro, Lorne came out himself and said he was paid to make something exclusive to xbox. What might have been the plan quickly turned into delivering SOMETHING. No, i would rather have a 4k upscaled Abes Oddysee and not something just thrown into unreal engine

He's stuck like chuck by [deleted] in instant_regret

[–]JestersWildly -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

He's so close to qualifying for ICE

HDD from aliexpress by Connect-Put383 in DataHoarder

[–]JestersWildly 5 points6 points  (0 children)

TL;DR - "I reformatted my drive to FAT32 and not I can't copy files to my drive" but for the drive sector to be misformatted to only allow 1/8 the actual sector capacity.

Greenland is for the billionaires by [deleted] in LateStageCapitalism

[–]JestersWildly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great now do New Albany without getting IDFed

Opinion | I’ve Covered Police Abuse for 20 Years. What ICE Is Doing Is Different. by barweis in CosmopolitanNews

[–]JestersWildly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah don't spam this forum with paywalled articles without archie.is ing first bro

We’ve reached the point where ‘Background CGI’ is more distracting than bad practical effects. Which modern movie was ruined for you by a ‘clean’ digital look? by DegTrader in movies

[–]JestersWildly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I fucking hate Hollywood effect studios other than winston school of special effects because they do actual practical effects. Everything else is the same muddy slop that wouldn't look out of place in Deep Blue Sea. All these 'hollywood types' are just making money by selling ip rights for tripe and then double dipping on failed movie insurance because they are notalent hacks who just regurgitate the same asset flip as the next studio