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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 09:43:07 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   Here's what I want the EU to do about cables:
   Before you can sell a device that comes with a cable of any kind, you have to answer the question "what does the user have to do if they lose this cable?"

   "they're screwed" and "they'll have to buy another from us" are not acceptable answers, and those products can't be sold. Get a better answer or use a different cable.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 10:00:54 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • &Olga

     @andOlga good point

   • &Olga (andolga@girlcock.club)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 10:00:55 JST &Olga

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     @foone "sell a device that comes with a cable" does invite the Nintendo 3DS way of doing things though (you just get the console, fuck you, you have to buy the proprietary charger *separately*).
     So rather than that, if you sell any device that *uses* a cable...

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 10:55:14 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Stormgren

     @Stormgren that's way worse than my "VGA over mini-USB" worst cable

   • Stormgren (stormgren@obsidianmoon.com)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 10:55:15 JST Stormgren

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     @foone @foone As someone who owns a device that has a USB interface that uses a damned s-video connector as a device jack, I 100% support this.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 12:03:41 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Dan Hon
     • Parsingphase

     @parsingphase @danhon I would like to apply for this job

   • Parsingphase (parsingphase@m.phase.org)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 12:03:50 JST Parsingphase

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     • Dan Hon

     @danhon @foone Looking forward to the appointment of a European Cable Czar.

   • Dan Hon (danhon@dan.mastohon.com)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 12:03:51 JST Dan Hon

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     @foone I am genuinely vibrating with excitement about the concept of a European Strategic Cable Reserve or a Cable Mountain or or or

   • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 15:57:17 JST ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

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     @foone that will result in SO MUCH more misuse of USB and HDMI; I am opposed for that reason I think

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 15:57:17 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

     @whitequark good point. maybe there also needs to be something like "and are you using this cable for what it's for?"

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 16:04:07 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

     @whitequark then you make sure that the cable can be purchased from people other than you when you make the device. Like, you publish a standard/docs on how to make it, so it has a second source.

   • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 16:04:08 JST ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

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     @foone but what do you do if you need a custom cable for an actual reason? like, I dunno, "I need four microfluidic channels in it aside from USB"