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  • jaspersgroove@lemm.eetotechnologyThe duality of of man.
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    8 months ago

    I mean, considering how many rockets spacex has blown up already this isn’t really that surprising. Sometimes the fastest way to figure out how to not blow stuff up is by blowing stuff up. And if it doesn’t blow up then hey, great, on to the next thing.


  • This is the biggest flaw with usb c, though I seem to get downvoted and ridiculed whenever I point it out. The retaining pins are part of the port itself, not the cable plug as is the case with micro usb and lightning cables. So when the retaining system breaks, you can’t just go buy a new cable, you have to replace the port.

    The pinouts are standardized so you should just be able to count the number of solder joints and find a connector that mounts to the pcb the same way as the one you’re replacing. Just eyeballing it I found one that looks pretty closed linked below, but I would advise you to do some more research on your own and not just take my word for it.

    https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/molex/2169900003/13913753

    Looks like this is a fairly common issue for your device, unfortunately. https://www.reddit.com/r/XPpen/comments/j11ptl/xppen_deco_pro_small_ccable_port/?rdt=52268



  • The preparedness paradox is something we run into a lot these days, and is related to your question. When you avert a crisis people will inevitably point and say “See, nothing happened! You wasted all that time, money, and effort for nothing!” Our collective Covid response was an example, the vaccines and lockdowns were demonstrably effective in reducing deaths and yet millions who were merely personally inconvenienced insist it was all a waste of time.

    As far as big “smoking gun” examples of narrowly averted disasters it will probably be hard to find many good examples, because as you said historians tend not to write about things that didn’t happen.

    That being said, some of them absolutely love to speculate on alternate scenarios, and there is no lack of examples of crises or events that were not averted, but we can point directly at actions people took that prevented the situation from being even worse than it was.