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[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Seems serious to me. Is there an obvious reason it'd be a joke / is not to be taken seriously?

I expect theres some technical limitation that wouldn't be obvious to a layman, but I'd love to learn if you can point to resources.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I can’t think of the proper words so I apologize for how untechnical this is: If you look inside the connector you’ll see a thin line jutting out. That’s the actual thing that USB-C connects with. You can’t make that round. The reason the outer part of the plug is an “oval” is just to make plugging it in easier. It could be a rectangle and still work.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

You can’t make that round.

I mean, you could. You'd need three times as many contacts in the receptacle as pins in the plug. Each pin would have to be able to touch exactly 1 or 2 contacts simultaneously. Each receptacle contact would need to programmatically assign itself to perform the role expected for the particular pin it is touching at any given moment.

Pin 1 would start off touching Contact A. As you rotate it, it would connect to A and B. Keep rotating it, it drops A and touches B alone. Then BC. Then C. Then CD. Then D. Then DE, and so on.

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Assuming by "jutting pieces" you mean the pins, yeah, I could see that being difficult ultimately to manufacture into the 3.5mm jack configuration.

But translating each pin to a "band" (sorry I'm not very technical myself) on a jack with the form factor of a 3.5mm pin should be doable. You'd probably need 5 or 10 bands since (as I understand it) USBs use a 5 pin connection (again, as I understand it, most devices mirror the 5 pins on each side, but some more advanced/specialized USBs utilized the USB-C connector as 10 pins, hence the possible desire for a 10 band jack).

Again, I could see that being difficult to manufacture, but not impossible, and especially if it became a standard package. Might need a bigger jack than 3.5mm though.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

USB C has a (soon to be) max power delivery of 240 watts. Shorting that onto a data pin would be catastrophic.

You can kinda work around that, but honestly the easiest way is to just not present the opportunity.

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago

That seems like a particularly poignant concern. Lol, so I'm hearing "possible, but but difficult and undesirable"