I fully paid off two of my credit cards this month and I feel no better than before because the massive unassailable monstrosity that is my student loan debt remains
Something few people are talking about with regards to the Nintendo Switch is something that actually might be most significant in the long term across all of our electronics: the USB type-C power supply supporting USB Power Delivery 2.0.
People have been testing the Switch with various USB-C power adapters and it seems to properly implement PD 2.0. The adapter that comes with the Switch can deliver power in two flavors: 5V==1.5A (7.5 watts) or 15V==2.6A (39 watts). The 7.5W mode is enough the charge the battery while it's sleeping, or greatly extend its runtime without charging while in use. The 39W mode can run the console docked and charge the battery at full rate.
Another company recently committed to USB-C and USB PD also: Apple. They've shipped a couple laptops that charge exclusively over USB-C and shipped a few USB chargers. Apple's adapter can supply 20.2V==4.3A (86 watts), 9V==3A (27 watts), or 5.2V==2.4A (12 watts).
If you connect Apple's laptop power adapters to the Nintendo Switch, the Switch queries the power supply, picks the 9 volt mode, and draws 9.6 watts. That's enough to run the system and charge slowly. Not totally ideal, but the Switch is talking to the Apple hardware, negotiating the best power plan both devices support, and, most importantly, it works. The Switch isn't even using a mode that Nintendo officially uses anywhere else.
I know it's funny that I am excited about this but Nintendo and Apple have both taken a common standard and implemented it and their products are interoperating correctly! These are two historically notoriously proprietary companies, embracing a consumer-friendly standard with little fanfare, and a couple of their released products are interoperable. This is huge.
We might really finally get a universal DC power supply specification that works across devices and isn't a bunch of undefined borderline dangerous crap with only bad connector options like USB type A's 100mA / 500mA / 1A / 2A nonsense. It's happening guys.
But what does it all mean
You can power a Switch with a Macbook power adapter and vice versa. This is a sign of things to come, where basically all consumer electronics start using interoperable power supplies. Like USB kind of is today, but for real and including high draw items like laptops, tablets, and game consoles.
But what does it all mean
It means that your vape and prostate massager will only need one power cord.
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if you haven't planned your eclipse accommodations yet? You might wanna get looking. There are a lot of people looking to visit areas that normally have no tourism
like any public campgrounds were booked years ago
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I will never pay off my student loan debt, the only reason I haven't driven into the lake is that I've accepted it's just a never ending monthly payment I have to deal with instead of trying to work out how to actually pay it down
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I have an uncle who lives in Nashville so I'm not super worried about getting accommodations ahead of time.
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The only actually bad Zelda games are Skyward Sword and those Zelda games on the Phillips CD-i.
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
my best friend got married in a firehouse and everyone chipped in for the dinner afterwards, they spent like $300 of their own money total on it (essentially no parental contribution)
poor people are more sensible than middle class people in some things
Why isn't there a neighborhood pretzel delivery man? I mean, wtf? Why isn't there a man who goes around town delivering warm pretzels to all the good boys and girls of the neighborhood?
The only actually bad Zelda games are Skyward Sword and those Zelda games on the Phillips CD-i.
I hear the last parts of Skyward Sword and the dungeons are cool. Just that 30 hour tutorial at the start is a problem
It gets almost cool near the end but it still can't help tutorializing to its last, ragged breath. Its one of the few games I've ever finished out of spite.
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
Why isn't there a neighborhood pretzel delivery man? I mean, wtf? Why isn't there a man who goes around town delivering warm pretzels to all the good boys and girls of the neighborhood?
Why isn't there a neighborhood pretzel delivery man? I mean, wtf? Why isn't there a man who goes around town delivering warm pretzels to all the good boys and girls of the neighborhood?
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Seriously, trying to save for a house deposit and a wedding is going to fucking kill me
It means that your vape and prostate massager will only need one power cord.
Is there even a legal way to do so without using fell magicks to animate the corpse of an N64
I don't understand the logic here
if you haven't planned your eclipse accommodations yet? You might wanna get looking. There are a lot of people looking to visit areas that normally have no tourism
like any public campgrounds were booked years ago
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
his name
is bernie sanders
Well A Link to the Past is one of the greatest games of all time
And so is Ocarina of Time
so
3D didn't do shit except keep making Zelda amazing. Then they did some shitty stuff but hey so does everyone
Now we have Breath of the Wild which is maybe one of the best games ever I dunno haven't beaten it yet.
For me?
Stubbornness.
play it on the wii
play it on the wii u
play it on the 3ds
*perks up*
My wedding is going to be full of food we scavenge from a dumpster.
It's on 3ds! And digital download for 3ds!
@redx I can't stand psytrance but it sounds like you'll have a blast! Be safe!
Right
Yeah, bad idea
Choose one of the other two
they never did a gamecube remake?
I've leveled up stamina four times and am still at three hearts.
I hear the last parts of Skyward Sword and the dungeons are cool. Just that 30 hour tutorial at the start is a problem
poor people are more sensible than middle class people in some things
I don't know where the line is but an oculus rift is on the other side of that line
a perfect 6/10
or
Fog Simulator 1998
The future has failed me.
It gets almost cool near the end but it still can't help tutorializing to its last, ragged breath. Its one of the few games I've ever finished out of spite.
"Just a coffee stain."
Ocarina didn't really have fog and had generally excellent draw distance for the N64. I am becoming convinced you haven't really played it.
The question is largely academic
Maybe...
Just maybe...
They will all love me if I do this.