What's interesting about Western politics right now is that the more people #protest and resist, the more authoritarian governments become.
It's the only trick government have: silence dissent by arresting peaceful protesters and making laws to stop people saying things.
But this is only exposing the sham of Western free speech and democracy, and our leaders are only assisting this collapse in politics. The more they censor ideas, the more curious people get, the more people realise our governments serve corporations and colonialism over people.
#ElectronicIntifada | Revulsion for Israel surges worldwide, new survey finds
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Revulsion for Israel surges worldwide, new survey finds
Joining global trend, more than half of Americans now view Israel negatively.The Electronic Intifada
Dave Anderson
in reply to Dave Anderson • • •That also suggests a hacky fix for such devices, if you're brave enough to crack them open: locate the chips in charge of USB port management, figure out what power rails they're running off of (likely 3.3V), find a convenient test point or connector on that rail, and hook up an appropriate external power supply to the rail. Effectively you're giving the circuit board a jump-start, enough juice that the circuitry that manages USB-PD can start up, at which point it'll go "oh shit look at this power source that would like to send me power!", negotiate for whatever main supply rail it wants, and the rest of the board will boot and start recharging the battery.
Though hopefully now that it seems that most USB-PD management ICs have this integrated dead battery mode, the need to ever do that will go away.
Dave Anderson
in reply to Dave Anderson • • •I guess technically you could also do the jump-start through the USB port, you just have to violate the spec and blindly supply 5V/3A on VBUS even if the sense resistors aren't there. Just long enough for sense resistors and/or configuration channel traffic to show up, then you can go back to obeying the spec.
... Come to think of it I expect aliexpress has a little cottage industry of boards that let you do exactly that...
Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
in reply to Dave Anderson • • •Two slight corrections: you can't ask for "standard 5V/3A", you only ask for 5V. The available current is advertised by the source with Rp (which has 3 options: either USB standard 100/150/500/900mA, 1.5A or 3A), the device does not ask for it.
Also, providing 5V on VBUS without Rd on CC does not violate the spec. USB-C sockets are not supposed to do that, but plugs can. Otherwise USB A to C cables would be illegal.