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xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet

Title text:

Building Inspectors HATE This One Weird Trick

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[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

USB A doesn't support at the fancy high-power PD/PPS features.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Pretty sure I can solder something together using a USB-PD decoy 😄 Made a bunch of barrel jack adapters the same way.