Pi5 ... Not On Amazon Yet

Let's call it a PSU (Power Supply Unit), it is not a charger.

It supports USB-PD so you can use it to charge a phone.

I can attest to that , I've used it to keep an Apple MacBook Pro alive when I left the power supply behind at the office!

Not so much a charger as a battery life extender?

Emergency Life Support for Apple products, more like. Sorry I've been watching too many pre 1970s Doctor Who episodes.

Hey ... I *love* pre-70s Dr. Who episodes ! Almost no FX budget ... actors/writing had to actually carry the narrative !

Try Pluto-TV ... loads of Who 1/2/3 episodes.

Over time, and exposure, I've developed a certain respect for Hartnell and Troughton. The USA got VERY limited exposure, mostly through "public television", and for a long time a LOT of those episodes were just "lost". Searching through archives in odd ex-Empire countries have produced MANY "lost" episodes. A few are incomplete - but I've seen ones with the missing bits aesthetically replaced by animations. Apparently all the SOUND and script-descriptions were preserved ... which was a big help. "AI" will eventually be able to weave together convincing replacement video.

"Who" is in BIG DEMAND outside the UK. Such a long-running, complex, series is intriguing. It's "very British" and the historical/artistic value is huge.

As for Apple ... well ... it's become as "evil" as M$ - almost a cult in fact. Hate 'em.

DO own an old Apple-II ... with goodies ... but that was from before they became Evil. Once I retire I'll spend some time restoring the hardware and discs for the Full Experience. The old 6502 chip could do a LOT of neat stuff when properly motivated. Never diss the Apple-II/C64.

Although I had heard of it for some time, I never actually watched it until several years ago, when I started at the 2005 reboot. It has a kind of quirkiness that I like.

Hence the .sig I created a few years ago. See below.

Try Pluto-TV ... it carries the OLD OLD episodes on its "Who Classic" channel.

The "new" episodes are rather different from the originals. The old ones had a rather small FX budget. The narrative was carried by WRITERS instead. Oft a bit cludgy, but still attractive.

It was still very "quirky".

The series had an odd start ... the first episode aired on the same day as the JFK assassination and was thus ignored entirely. The BBC was convinced to run it AGAIN a week or so later - and it became a big hit ... indeed for 60 years now.

I *suppose* Linux could be viewed as a "cult" also ... except that it WORKS SO DAMNED WELL and for ZERO dollars/pounds/francs/whatever.

I've just retired. My replacements BARELY program and are ONLY expert at using M$ commercial products. They see Linux, and PIs, as a sort of dread disease. This is what the new management thinks is Most Vital. Classic Pointy-Haired-Bosses syndrome to the max. They WILL be screwed, badly, soon enough - but at this point they don't SEE it. Their "PLAN" is to blame every screw-up on M$ instead of themselves. I'll be getting my pension and SS checks, so, well, screw 'em. Nearly 40 years of study/effort just FLUSHED. Bad Decisions = Bad Results but it's no longer MY fault.

Could NEVER impress on them that Winders is just the seagull-befouled tip of the proverbial iceberg and Linux/Unix is the REAL computing world.

Guess I'll get a GitHub page and put useful "utilities" on it. Prevents brain rot. Linux/Unix/Pi ARE the Better Way.

But you choose Microsoft's way to host open-source software?!

Put them on your own website, and unlike M$/GitHub don't fill it full of pointless, poorly-compatible, Javascript just in order to show a directory listing!

The standards for the peripheral end (printer, mobile phone, USB hard drive) end resolved fairly quickly into:

- USB B (square) for printers

- mini (D connector) for older USB HDDs

- micro (slightly slimmer D) for newer HDDs and most non-Apple mobile phones

- USB C (rectangle with rounded corners, with 180 degree rotational symmetry - at *last*) for all recent devices

It's a shame that there has never been a properly certified bi-directional A plug so you don't have to spend ages faffing around trying to plug a lead into a PC (often with the sockets recessed in a bay, to protect them from the cable being knocked). I've seen some leads with bidirectional A plugs that plug in either way to a standard (polarised) A socket, but they are rare and have never been widely adopted on all leads.

There are still a few proprietary connectors. I have a Garmin smart watch that uses a rounded-rectangle connector with four round pins in line.

Then you've got the Apple Lightning connector which has an unshielded bit of PCB with exposed pins. I'm always petrified of bending the plug slightly while it's plugged in, and snapping the PCB. I still think the metal "ring" that surrounds the contacts on mini, micro and C is a Good Thing because it helps stiffen the plug and protect the contacts. But despite *looking* flimsy, I've never had a Lightning plug actually snap off while inserted into a device: Apple did a good job.

GitHub isn't the ONLY place to post software.

I do not want my own web-site for several reasons, PAYING for it being just one. Various kinds of liability are others.