>>501369540 I'm not saying its impossible, but that it's guaranteed that China will fail. They have a performative culture just like the UAE and Saudi Arabia, they like to stroke their egos with absolutely retarded megaprojects. I see a lot of people buying into hype and dismissing the sceptics, and I can understand where they're coming from, these days it seems that all Europe and the rest of the western world cares about is browns and faggots. Despite everything people are still inspired by large and difficult projects, if they weren't told to hate Elon they'd at least swoon over Starship, but now normies can't even do that.
I didn't care for it tbdesu, Seven Eves is a better book by that guy
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Anonymous2025-03-25 6:28
re-jns will be up down etc ,(side side maybe for some), medianbetween them (lin exptlation), areas mins maxs. areas are inside and win.
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Anonymous2025-03-25 6:30
an enable needed for each, elements must be set..... maybe have _box too someday that has an origin too? or areas have or... na too much, just that stuff
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Anonymous2025-03-25 6:32
way to do a radius: first boxes overlap origin_x+radius, y z etc. Then if that's true, the real radius
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Anonymous2025-03-25 6:32
which would be a vlen
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Anonymous2025-03-25 6:33
or maybe it's just a vlen...
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Anonymous2025-03-25 6:35
In Siria, il 13 marzo scorso, Ahmed Al Sharaa ha firmato una costituzione temporanea valida fino al 2030. Il testo garantisce il rispetto delle minoranze religiose, ma stabilisce che la giurisprudenza islamica sarà la principale fonte di legislazione, a differenza di quanto previsto dalla vecchia costituzione, che la considerava solo "una delle fonti". Padre Jacques Mourad, sacerdote cattolico, aveva previsto questo scenario e lo considera preoccupante. A fine dicembre, alle nostre telecamere aveva detto: "Molti di noi, qui in Siria, hanno sperimentato la libertà per la prima volta l'8 dicembre, il giorno in cui è caduto il regime di Bashar al-Assad. Il mondo di In Mezz'ora in un futuro migliore. Ma come comunità religiosa siamo molto cauti. Io non posso accettare che un miliziano sia il presidente del mio Paese". L'intervista di Luciana Coluccello.
In Syria, on March 13, Ahmed Al Sharaa signed a temporary constitution valid until 2030. The text guarantees respect for religious minorities, but establishes that Islamic jurisprudence will be the main source of legislation, unlike the old constitution, which considered it only "one of the sources". Father Jacques Mourad, a Catholic priest, had foreseen this scenario and considers it worrying. At the end of December, he told our cameras: "Many of us, here in Syria, experienced freedom for the first time on December 8, the day Bashar al-Assad's regime fell. The world of In Half an Hour in a better future. But as a religious community we are very cautious. I cannot accept that a militiaman is the president of my country". The interview by Luciana Coluccello.
Why do lightning cables stop working? Quora 10+ answers · 9 years ago Cables could burn, wires could break, the connectors could rust, oxidize, get dirty, corrode… These usually happen to worse quality cables. 17 answers · Top answer: Apple makes some of the highest quality, most durable consumer electronics products that money ... Why do my Lightning cables break every 6 weeks ... 23 answers Feb 8, 2015 Why don't most 'unofficial' lightning cables work ... 3 answers Sep 20, 2016 Why does my long (3m) Lightning cable work fine ... 2 answers Mar 3, 2019 Why do I not get shocked when I touch the end of an ... 4 answers May 30, 2018 More results from www.quora.com People also ask Why do lightning cables stop charging? Why does my charger stop working after a few months? What is the lifespan of the Apple Lightning cable? Truth About Apple Charging Cables Lifespan: Expert Tips For ... The lifespan of an iPhone lightning charging cable can vary depending on various factors, including frequency of use, handling, and cable quality. Typically, with proper care and usage, an iPhone lightning charging cable can last from several months to a couple of years.Dec 16, 2023 Truth About Apple Charging Cables Lifespan: Expert Tips For Longevity SZapphone https://www.szapphone.com › blog › iphone-lightning-c... Why do lightning cables suddenly stop working? Cables stop working for several reasons one of which is the pins loose their connection holding abilities ( get bent ) . Sometimes there is a circuit in the end that gets damaged or the wires come disconnects in the ends . They are a consumable item just like batteries .Aug 4, 2015
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Anonymous2025-03-27 18:44
Profile photo for Daniel Gildenlöw Daniel Gildenlöw Singer at Pain of Salvation (1991–present)Author has 403 answers and 1.8M answer views4y
I wrote this as a reply to another answer below, but I might as well paste it as an answer as well. Because it annoys me to see people basically answer "they don't" or blame it on bad handling, which is simply not correct. One person even goes so far as to say the cables are excellent, which is one of the absolutely last words I'd use to describe them, right between the descriptions "swell" and "made of cheese".
My home simply begs to differ. I buy only Apple original cables and have done so since the iPhone 3. I am now on iPhone 12 Pro. Apple's lightning cables suck the balls of a giant goat. Seriously, we have no other cables fail on us so frequently and it would be devastating to learn how much money we have spent on those crap cables over the years. Right now we have about twelve (12) iPhone charger cables in our home, all of which were purchased in the last two years. Three (3!) of them are still working (although one of them only works in one position, so you have to turn it upside-down if it doesn't work). I will repeat that: 3.
All of these lightning cables have been treated royally and are the most pampered objects in the house, and they all look pristine and shiny new. We do all but bow to them and serve them strawberry champagne. To no avail. They just stop working, and no cleaning, positions or pep talks help.
As a professional musician, I work with cables and chargers on a daily basis. I have cables in use that are still working after 39 years of heavy wear and tear, most of them waaaaay cheaper than the lightning cable, I might add. And hey, I can still charge my old iPhone 3 and the old iPods, since those old charger cables still work. And same goes for all the MacBook chargers (I have 8 MacBooks and MacBook Pros with chargers in my house). The only MacBook charger cable that I've lost was one that exploded as it was inserted in a venue socket that was likely faulty.
So, Apple lightning cables, good cables? Not a chance. Get real. We use up a solid 5–10 every year, minimum. Not one is lost to twisting, breaking, water or other wear and tear damage. They just give up. And I have no idea why. Which kind of sucks since I'm thereby not answering this question. I can't. I am wondering the same thing.
How I found this thread? I googled "Why do my Apple iPhone charging cables always stop working?" and I'm still waiting for a good answer. "They are excellent" is simply not an answer that I find remotely acceptable. They are the Worst. Cables. I. Have. Ever. Used.
Profile photo for Paul Conway Paul Conway Studied at University of Hull (UK)Author has 1.7K answers and 1.5M answer views6y
Apple invented Lightning for greed. Cleverly it adds an unnecessary chip within the connector whose connections break quickly, so they can extort money repeatedly. MFi makes 3rd-party vendors pay Apple to be able to sell cables. Oh the genius of Jobs.
In the decades since USB came into existence I have NEVER had a USB cable fail, through an endless succession of tower PCs, laptops, tablets, phones, external disks, mice, keyboard. NEVER a problem. Likewise with HDMI.
Last year I bought 3 USB-to-Lightning adapters. Just shells with a plug at one end and socket at the other, both wired to a chip. No cables to fray or damage by pulling. A safe bet.
I used them regularly, recharging an iPod Touch and an iPhone SE running iOS 11. Then I upgraded to iOS 12. At first everything was ok, ie for a week they both charged without any problems.
Today the adapters all suddenly stopped functioning. The chargers I use are ok, I verified that. But the Apple cable that came with my iPhone works. Whether I use Apple’s charger or not.
I am reminded of why I shunned Apple products for years. I only bought an iPhone because there were apps I could not get for Windows 10 Mobile. I miss the latter’s AMOLED displays, live tiles, and fuss-free Micro-USB.
I am now looking for a source of reliable cables at a reasonable price to fix a problem that should not exist. The concept of cables that wear out in months BY DESIGN is bizarre and alien to me. It amounts to fraud.
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Anonymous2025-03-27 18:47
Profile photo for Stephen Hinson Stephen Hinson VP, Business Intelligence (2002–present)2y
I’m surprised by the lack of quality answers here. I have six Apple devices and have owned at least one since 2010. It is obvious that lightening cables don’t fail because of physical damage or normal wear and tear but because Apple’s updates render the chip in these cables obsolete. Cheap cables bought on Amazon and made in China will last about six months. This pack cost me about $10.
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Anonymous2025-03-27 18:48
Profile photo for Jason Engelsman Jason Engelsman IT Professional since 2001 (2001–present)Author has 67 answers and 73.3K answer views5y Originally Answered: Why do lightning cable cell phone chargers stop working after a few months?
Depends if it’s Apple branded or a decent alternative brand. I have only had one iPad charger for on me over the course of four iPads and about the same iPhones.
Good alternative chargers are made by complained that make lightning cables with the MFI certification.eg.
Anker
Aukey
Ravpower
Belkin
To name a few
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Anonymous2025-03-27 18:49
Ryan Sloan Works at Self Employed Fine ArtistAuthor has 51 answers and 146.4K answer views5y Related Do non-Apple branded lightning cables still stop working after a while, or is that problem fixed?
This is what I go through every few months —
was I recently bought a cable that was the top recommended brand from enough reliable sources that it should have been legit … and it was
It lasted without issue for about 3 months until last night. Now I can only get my iPad Pro to charge up to about 5% before it starts dropping, even though it indicates it’s still charging and never gives me a 5% power warning.
i have bought so many cables from amazon - many “guaranteed for life” - whatever that means (one replacement and some bizarre email obstruction hoping you’ll give up on the guarantee, which has worked on me twice now), and they all suck.
the Apple brand might be better for connection reliability, but they are so fragile that they end up fraying within a couple of weeks.
I have been slapping duct tape on the fray-susceptible spot, but there’s got to be a better way to make them last longer.
Apple seems to have an added responsibility to reduce waste and plastics consumption in out climate changing environment, so this issue is worse than faulty product designed to be obsolete and unreliable for licensed manufacturing replacement.
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Anonymous2025-03-27 18:50
Patrick Rodrigues Works at U.S. Department of Homeland Security (2017–present)5y Related Why do my iPhone charging cables stop working after a couple weeks?
This is all just my opinion and I am not recommending you to follow what you're about to read as I am no expert. The following may void any warranties, ruin a device or even cause injury or death. My writing may not solve your issue as it did for me. Attempt at your own risk.
Firstly, make sure that you are using a lightning cable licensed to work with an iPhone. Look for the Made for iPhone, iPad, iPod (MFi) logo on the product box to ensure you are buying a top quality product. I would not recommend using a cheap sketchy made in China cable as it may potentially ruin your device or even cause a fire.
Secondly, check to see if your cable has a burnout mark on the part that goes into the lightning port. I sometimes try to clean off the black mark so that the cable can have a better contact with the device. I intentionally left out cleaning procedures because the cable is not made to be cleaned. (The next two photos are generic illustrations I made for this Quora answer and will be different from yours.)
Lastly, a lot of people do not do this and are probably unaware of the issue existing. Sometimes your iPhone’s, iPod’s, or AirPod case’s lighting port can become jammed and caked with pocket lint and other crud! Take a peek into the lightning port to see if you see lint preventing your cable from completely sliding in. Below is a generic illustration of my AirPod case with make believe crud drawn in. I usually (and I am not telling you to do this) turn my iPhone off to prevent short circuit and electrical shock while extracting the lint. I use a thin sewing needle to scrape out the crud form the port. I also avoid touching the metal nodes inside of the port to prevent damage and electrical shock. This is not recommenced but it works for me. A safer way to clean the port would probably be to use compressed air to blow out the lint.
These things worked for me but may not work for you, depending on your situation. I apologize that your cables are not lasting long. I have yet to run into issues with a MFi lightning cable. Lightning cables are not made like the old 30-pin cables that came with the older iPhones. Good luck and I hope you can solve your issue!
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Anonymous2025-03-27 18:52
Profile photo for T Evans T Evans Author has 22K answers and 14.4M answer views6y Related Why do my iPhone charging cables stop working after a couple weeks?
I’ve found that when I’m using my iPhone while I’m charging it, that my cables tend to break faster. I’ve tried the woven cloth varieties, along with the vinyl jacketed types and all fail fast when I’m using my phone, but tend to last longer when the phone is just sitting flat and charging. This is due to all the motion at the point the cable enters the lightning connector. Minimizing that motion will keep the very thin (too thin?) internal wires attached as they should be for longer. I’d pay double for a truly heavy duty lightning cable that would last a year while using the iPhone connected to the charge cable.
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Anonymous2025-03-27 18:52
Profile photo for Michel Joseph Cardin Michel Joseph Cardin Self brought to the understanding of activity and reactivity11mo
It’s the circuit board that burns out inside the end that is non usb. the resistors that is on the positive red wire. Open them up and check the continuity for yourselves.
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Anonymous2025-03-27 18:53
Profile photo for Glyn Williams Glyn Williams lives in the future.Upvoted by Shane Ryoo , CompE PhD, multiple tech start-up alum · Author has 10.1K answers and 74.6M answer views · 8y Related Why don't most "unofficial" lightning cables work well?
Lightning is a smart connector.
You can turn it round, plug it back in and it still works. This magic happens because there is smart hardware which re-allocates the pins dynamically.
Apple licence this smart hardware, and charge money to manufacturers. This makes official connectors more expensive.
The unlicenced l knock-off products, have guessed / reverse engineered some of the functions, and if you are lucky they might work as charging cables. (and if you are unlucky they will burst into flames).
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Anonymous2025-03-27 18:55
Profile photo for Eben Young Eben Young B.A in Information Technology, University of New Hampshire (Graduated 2024)Author has 174 answers and 211.1K answer views · 6y Related Do non-Apple branded lightning cables still stop working after a while, or is that problem fixed?
3rd party cables do not have the specific tolerances for the idevices. The blueprint is kept secret, so 3rd parties have to guess, which causes each cable to be a little different from apples official cables.
Over time, the cables wear out and the charging stops working. This is usually caused by low quality assurance, and bad testing. My recommendation is to buy from certified retailers like Amazon basics. They more frequently than not, have better quality, longer lasting cables than Chinese branded ones.
I once bought a pack of 5. 4 of which stopped working after the 1st week..
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Anonymous2025-03-27 18:56
Profile photo for Stephen Dudley Stephen Dudley Author has 7.3K answers and 13.7M answer views5y Related How often do you have to replace your phone charger cable because it's stopped working? (That is, not because it got lost or had some obvious damage occur like the wire getting cut.)
Depending on the cable, I find the cheap ones the micro-usb plug stops making proper contact within a few months- expensive cords- maybe up to a year- sometimes…
The higher the current the less time the micro-usb plug lasts (I normally find the plug is the issue rather than actual broken wires in most cases- checking with a multimeter shows continuity, but when inserted into the phone (or my vape, which is hell on the charging cords as it’s charging current is about twice that of my phone) it won’t charge- for a while it will by ‘propping’ the plug on something so its angled into the socket- but that's always a sign to order a new one…
Interestingly it’s never the larger USB-A plug at the PSU end, but the micro-usb at the phone/vape end that’s the issue… those tiny contacts just aren’t up to the job imho
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Anonymous2025-03-27 19:00
Profile photo for Terry Lambert Terry Lambert Worked on iOS kernel, Apps before they were allowed by Apple.Author has 29.9K answers and 126.1M answer views7y Related How can I stop my iPhone from rejecting my charger with the message "This may be an unsupported accessory."?
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You don’t specify which type of iPhone it is, so it’s not clear if this is an active or passive cable.
An iPhone will attempt to negotiate a high current draw in order to charge substantially faster — up to 4X faster than it would otherwise be able to charge.
The USB standard doesn’t support charging at a higher current draw, so in order to do this, it negotiates the current draw between the wall wart (the USB charger brick into which the cable is plugged, and which is plugged into the wall) and the iPhone.
I personally have a number of power outlets with USB ports which incorporate charging chips licensed from Apple — Apple actually charges cost on these chips to manufacturers for this type of use; they charge a premium to people who want to make wall warts. They don’t provide the USB port chips that are in their computers for use in USB Downstream Charging Ports to third parties.
The upshot of this is that, if it’s not an Apple device, it’s going to run a much lower current draw. If the device is on — particularly iPads, but also the large iPhones, if the backlight is turned up — will draw power faster than the default USB standard can supply it.
So they pop this warning. You acknowledge the warning, and the charging circuit will shunt and draw power from there — and charge, if there’s anything left over, which there might be, if you’ve killed everything running in the background, have good cellular signal strength (if it’s a cellular device, since the fewer bars, the more power the iPhone will draw to talk to the cell tower).
Or, if there was a warning, it might not charge, it might just stay on battery power, if all your radios (Cell, WiFi, Bluetooth) are on and the backlight is lit up brightly.
There’s no option for “running as much as you can off wall power, and get the rest from the battery” or for “run off battery, and charge as much as you can, even though the device is depleting the battery faster than it’s recharging”.
That’s with a straight USB-to-”dumb”-docking cable.
In the Thunderbolt case, things are different. They’re different because the cable is active, as in it has powered electronics in it.
If it’s not an MFI certified cable — that’s one that’s been certified by Apple as using chips licensed from Apple), then it’s going to have at least one chip in it, possibly two.
Then there’s a problem.
Because the iPhone (or whatever) talks to the cable. Then the cable talks to the wall wart. Then the wall wart talks back to the cable. Then the cable talks to the device.
In other words: the cable needs to be able to talk about Apple’s manufacturer extensions to the USB charging standard — which show up as a different USB device profile, actually, since the USB folks didn’t think to add a “vendor option negotiation area” to the power profiles for the three types of USB power providers.
So the cable needs to be able to pretend to be an Apple cable to the iPhone (or whatever), then it needs to pretend to be an Apple cable of that type to the wall wart, which has to be able to pretend to be an Apple charger, to the cable.
Everyone has to talk to everyone else.
So if the thing pretends to be an Apple cable for a regular profile, but then not for the power profiles … it can’t negotiate on behalf of the device to the USB wall wart to get a higher current draw, more than the minimum current that you are allowed to pull off any upstream USB port.
And that’s definitely not enough to charge a device like an iPhone.
So it pops the little message, and then it refuses to charge.
Can I guess that you are perhaps a wall wart manufacturer or a cable manufacturer, trying to not have to license the Apple chips, and pay the Apple fees, and then pocket the difference of the licensing fee, and make a tidy profit?
If not, then it appears you bought a cable, wall wart, or both from one.
This is why Apple rails against so-called “counterfeit chargers”: cutting corners in order to increase per unit profitability, at the expense of actually providing the same features provided by actual Apple products.
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Anonymous2025-03-27 19:01
Profile photo for Ferenc Valenta Ferenc Valenta Natural born engineerAuthor has 4.4K answers and 11.9M answer views8y Related Why don't most "unofficial" lightning cables work well?
I used all sort of cables: originals, third party quality cables and cheap crap with my 5s. I’m currently using a 3 meters long quality cable at home and a standard length cheap copy in the car. Both are from Ebay.
All worked/is working fine, never had any issues with the cable operation. They work just like a standard micro USB cable, there aren’t many things which could go wrong. Longevity is another issue, cheap cables tend to break quite soon. Not necessarily the cable what breaks, but the extremely bad quality manual soldering between the cable and the small PCB holding the electronics inside the USB connector case. It can be repaired (I did), but it’s usually not worth the effort.
Btw, cable electronics. It’s simple, two SOT-23 packaged devices and some passives. There is no circuitry in the cable to switch lines according to the orientation, and this is not needed either: the pinout is symmetric. Rotating it by 180 degrees does not matter. Just checked with a multimeter. I guess the circuitry has something to do with voltage control or ESD protection etc., but of course it cannot be excluded that one of the integrated circuits is an EEPROM containing the serial number.
Of course I can imagine that there are bad batches out there. I remember at the advent of USB 2.0 there were cables reported which did not work properly at high speed. (480 Mbps) I’ve never seen such a cable myself though
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Anonymous2025-03-27 19:02
Profile photo for Martyn Davies Martyn Davies I understand some power electronics and have taken many power supplies apartAuthor has 647 answers and 1.3M answer views6y Related Why did my charger (not the cable or phone connector) stop working in like 6 months?
Because they are mass-produced items that are made with the minimum of components in order to maximise the profit on those items. Failure of a single component (often a capacitor) will render the unit non-functional, and of course when you’re making thousands of these items there will be a proportion of bad capacitors on the production line that will either make the units dead-on-arrival, or will be marginally functional such that over time (under stress and heat) the components will fail before the design lifetime of the power supply.
Often testing of electronic items is done by testing a random sample of the production line output, rather than test each unit. You can show statistically that this approach identifies major production problems (e.g. a whole batch of bad capacitors), but inevitably it means that some bad or marginal units will make it into the field.
Where I live (in the EU), one year is the minimum warranty time on electronic goods, so a unit that fails after 6 months should be cheerfully replaced.
