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by TheSpiceIsLife 1856 days ago
One solution could be to require different connectors for different protocols and power delivery.

I'm beginning to suspect The Great Filter is Jony Ive's minimalist design influence: any sufficiently advanced culture will annihilate itself before it discovers interstellar travel when someone connects two devices together that aren't compatible with the equivalent of a One True Connectorâ„¢ USB cable.

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I like to imagine there's an alien species zipping around in FTL space ships, and the only difference from us is they picked one endianness and ran with it.