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you hand him this
videographer: i am going to actually kill you
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you hand him this
videographer: <crying tears of blood>
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with 12 AA batteries in rattly boxes hanging off the back
a total of $4 in batteries
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you: <madly swapping these in and out of a stack of 2007 laptops> HANG ON
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a few years ago, the company @paul_wager and i work at had a massive server outage, multiple times.
it turned out to be due to datacenter electrical issues
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literally for the rest of my life, any time I think about electricity
i'm going to think about the Electric Man
back to the topic at hand. let's keep talking about de facto standards. god, i love them
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so here's a broadcast monitor, 2018 model, with 110V input OR: 4-pin XLR!
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Broadcast got 4-pin XLR at 12V/6A.
We got fuuuuuucked
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Note that you are looking at the /back/ of the battery.
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COULD PLUG INTO
MORE BATTERIES
WHAT IF I TOLD YOU
I COULD HELP YOU
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In 1987, maybe you got some obnoxious peripheral. A battery case for your walkman. A great big hunk of shit that hung off your belt and got you an extra hour of playtime or w/e. Cheesy. Fragile.