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Kluggy | 1 year ago

Louis Rossmann did a video with 107k views so far already https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cHDyq5hRk4

I would bet dollars to donuts that they lost a lot more than the replacement cost would have been.

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On the other hand, this design decision was so stupid that they're likely to kill the hardware of a lot of other people too, so obviously the lawyers would want to... uh... help destroy the company's reputation.

Here's a question: If you're going to change the pinout of the connector, which is proprietary anyway, why is the connector not keyed for the pinout it's supposed to use so you can't plug in the wrong cable?

rekoil|1 year ago

> why is the connector not keyed for the pinout it's supposed to use

Because it's cheaper to reuse the connectors they already have rather than to make a new one. /s

EDIT: Added a /s just to be on the safe side.