See, this is why I hate AI code, it enables people that don't know shit about fuck. No claude won't burn your usb ports, it's not even running in your computer.
This is either a faulty macbook or a faulty charger that has shorted the ports.
Technically it does run locally; the AI inference is what's running in the cloud (read: servers). Local tool calls like file edits and reads still happen locally as do running tests which happens a lot during software development.
I'm interested in knowing more about your opinions of him. I have read some of his work pre-AI, thought it was very interesting. Do you have sources? (Especially for the sex cult thing)
Electricity will degrade materials over time, which can cause more electrical resistance which creates heat that can then kill the electrical item. If the port is at full speed/power more than usual then there is more electricity than usual flowing through the port. This will degrade the port quicker to the point that running at those speeds/power creates even more heat and therefore burnout much faster than manufacturers anticipate. I work with server hardware and there are a lot of add on cards for servers that add more ports at faster speeds that have massive heatsinks to help prevent this kind of burnout just because they are designed for running at full speed constantly, unlike laptop ports which expect much lower usage
Traditionally speaking though if your laptop doesn't do smart charging or whatever brand name equivalent your manufacturer uses yes you should be discharging it sometimes
I'd be shocked to find out any modern laptop/charger doesn't have this feature so you're probably fine but in ye old days of 10-20 years ago yes there were absolutely issues with leaving stuff plugged in all the time or charging too much
It’s okay to keep a laptop plugged in but keeping it 100% can significantly degrade battery life. If there’s an option set the battery to stop charging at 80/90/95%.
I leave it plugged in for weeks on end while using it eight hours a day. It's a work laptop but I work 100% at the same desk and never need to unplug it.
Claude might be doing something on an external device like writing a lot of data, idk i don't work with ai, I work with hardware, they asked how it could happen and no where in my explanation did I suggest Claude was an external device. Softwares do access and utilise external devices, I don't know what the capabilities of claude are but maybe it can too and is doing it at full speed way more often than typical.
If I have a special video game controller, should I be keeping it unplugged from the USB port instead of keeping it plugged in all the time? The controller is very expensive and they don’t make them anymore
A game controller should be fine, they aren't going to be running any ports at Max speed or power and is extremely unlikely to burnout as I've described. You are far more likely to have it slowly break over time with normal use, hopefully very slowly as in many years kinda slowly.
Oh idk. It uses a USB B 2.0 cable which I think is for faster polling rates. I’m not sure. Does the kind of USB it is matter? It’s more like a special guitar game controller for music games. Though the way you’re describing it maybe it just fine to leave it plugged in all day every day. Idk. :/
Yeah that should be fine USB 2.0 caps out at 480 megabits per second data transfer speed and and 5 milliamps of power, no where near enough electricity there to fry anything on modern hardware unless there is a fault somewhere else in the system. My pc has a ridiculous amount of usb 2.0 devices plugged in and all my ports are fine, has been this way for a couple years and never unplug any of them, the only times I've had to replace things is when I damage them
Oh okie cool thanks. I just want my guitar controller to last a long time. It lets me play my favorite game. Just I don’t especially like plugging and unplugging it so I feel like it’s good if it won’t wear out being plugged in.
Love this thing so much and I even got some arcade parts to make it better that should be coming today. Thanks for telling me it’ll be safe. :)
Claude accidentally backtraced the address of his usb ports, and cross referenced them in the dot matrix block chain, and while backing-up the HTML server, it leaked the database and got the IPs mixed up.
Kernel level control for USB, but beyond that uhm I'm not sure you can actually manually adjust the USB voltages and Mac especially there's very likely hardware mechanisms. Dead ports sounds more like they plugged in something that shorter the port, and since it's quality build it only burned out the port, not the entire mobo. Then they did it again on another port because the first one didn't do what they wanted. And repeat for third. And the charging port probably has some bypass that still allows charging but at a controlled lower wattage, even after burning the port. What is funny is they are bringing up an llm like it was guilty. I bet they have no idea what they actually did.
In this case, yeah, it's very unlikely. But the question was how a program could damage hardware in general and that is definitely a real risk, if the program has enough access.
I don't know 100% why you got downvoted. Windows shafted my laptop's HDMI port for like four months one time, because immediately after one particular Windows update, my computer magically just absolutely could not see that my HDMI port even existed at all in the first place anymore. No troubleshooting in the world would fix it. Finally fixed itself again after yet ANOTHER subsequent Windows update later.
Im sure it's not common, I will agree with maybe people don't agree in the sense that software cannot PHYSICALLY or permanently break hardware. But it can absolutely "break" hardware, in its own bass ackwards way sometimes.
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u/bodhidharma132001 2d ago
The Tamagotchi Code... Great book