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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • The 5V5A supply is optional, the Pi 5 alone works perfectly fine using a standard 5V3A USB-PD supply, it just limits the maximum combined USB port current to 600mA.
    But technically they are still in USB-PD spec: it’s apparently okay for a charger to support 5V5A, and a device to “prefer” to use that if it’s available. It can’t be required, but as said, the Pi 5 works with 5V3A, so it isn’t.

    It’s still dumb, and they should have just used 9V3A instead and paid the dollar for the stepdown circuitry like everyone else.


  • If it’s anything like the solution planned in Finland, the waste is placed in copper containers, transported in pretty much bomb-proof vessels, and the facility is kilometres deep underground split into multiple separated chambers that get filled with concrete (or bentonite to be more precise) once they are full. The result is a solid block that will survive basically forever and the only thing you need to do is not go dig it back up.