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[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 51 points 1 year ago
[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 year ago

It's been told that if you can decrypt what comes out the other side, you will understand the true nature of the universe.

[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago

"I'll take things that have almost zero chance of working for 400, Alex."

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 year ago

Something>db9>db25>gender change, null modem or even a security dongle>back to db9> then a ps/2 connection> and the odd one out, a ps/2 to USB adapter for mice/keyboards> memory stick?

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.pt 17 points 1 year ago

Straight from the scriptures of the Tech Gods. Amen

[-] zakomo@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

I think that the start was a PCMCIA or PC Card.

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Ah you're right, it's been a while.

[-] Droggl@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 year ago

Im curious: Will the USB to PS/2 do anything for something thats not a keyboard or mouse?

[-] LaggyKar@programming.dev 25 points 1 year ago

No, and not even all keyboards and mice. It will only work for ones which can do PS/2 signaling over the USB port.

[-] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Probably not, if we're speaking about the next adapter in the line. They both use 4 pins, and there are no active conversion in the adapter itself, it just connects the pins like this:

USB ↔ PS/2
+5V ↔ +5V
D-  ↔ D
D+  ↔ CLK
GND ↔ GND

So, as long as next adapter is not doing something funny with PS/2 signals, it should be ok for bare USB 2.0 connection.

[-] reflex@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That is an Excalidongle, an instrument of the Tech Priests of the Ignoramus Mechanicus.

[-] Hupf@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Legend has it it contains the Sword of a Thousand Truths

[-] fosiacat@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I want to believe

[-] Bibez@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

USB<-->USB dongle?! >:(

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