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Yeah but on one hand you hold the possibility of peace and in the other rampant profiteering.

For an absolute scumbag the choice is obvious, no?

All hypothetical of course. Not convinced things will go that far without some more clear indicators.

The root servers are already spread over the globe. Enough of them are operated by non US orgs too to handle things initially, I suspect that the localised anycast servers located outside the US for those USA based operators would probably go on serving.

It’d be trivial to replace them anyway, and frankly we traffic would be much lower anyway since a lot of the Internet is run by us based organisations.

For domain registration on tlds not run by the us, they should continue to operate fine.

Well, I’d expect that if they allowed 5v through but with a low current limit (I think the default 5v standard states quite a low current allowance). They could catch anything drawing too much and shut the port off until it detects disconnection/other reset.

I mean, if they’re thinking about protecting a downstream device, adding this logic would make more sense than just not supplying any power unless a negotiation is made.

In any case, since standard USB ports on a computer will output 5v without anything being negotiated, then it’s really no less safe than any other USB port in that regard.

But wait. Doesn’t this make them both dumb? I’d expect a modern USB-C charger to still support basic 5v low current lazy devices too. If there’s a USB-A to C cable that works, it must also still be possible to send the basic 5v down a C-C cable.

I also think there’s always going to be a balance between how much a device needs to make and/or how much it needs fast charging to make sense to add the charging circuit for PD/PPS. Even $1-2 on top of the cost can ruin margins in the current electronic market.

I’ve been to the US twice since 9/11 and neither time was I asked for my phone. Not to say it didn’t happen before now. It happens in many countries if they decide they have even a tiny bit of suspicion.

But, frankly right now I would not travel to the USA for any reason.

Pretty sure I can see a tattoo on that dinosaur!

I used my own content controls to block reddit for a year. Well, a bit longer so far.