Gregory's Serverhanging out at http://f0rth.space (a #hackerspace in #tbilisi) and brought a little task to do while socializing. all the lightning cables me and @lake have been traveling with have the same issue of the insulation breaking up at the ends so I reinforced them all with some layers of heat shrink
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@crashglasshouses its sorta insane they still do this I have never had this issue with other types of cables @liaizon nothing "insane" about it, it's a deliberate choice to make you buy more cables because any cable that people are going to pull out by the wire, which doesn't have strain relief, is destined to break sooner than a wire that does. no ableist psychiatric conditions were involved in the making of these decisions. nothing is sacred to capitalists. @crashglasshouses I honestly don't believe the reason for this specific issue is planned obsolescence. I think it is about apple's insistence to use materials that feel "soft", their cables do feel different and I think that matters more to apple then their stability. If they had designed the cables to "die" after a certain time I think they would do that in a more intentional way. The connectors themselves are better made then most usb connectors from other products I have. |
@liaizon @lake when will Apple learn about strain relief