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Re:Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and ... by mrob on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @11:23AM (#11954633)
I still have an old fashioned parallel port (via PCI card) on my PC, because there's no other option for convenient and low-latency GPIO.

And I don't remember old fashioned serial ports needing special drivers that would brick unapproved hardware, like some modern FTDI USB serial adaptors did.

"Legacy" ports are simple and reliable. Let's not abandon the simple and reliable 3.5mm headphone port.

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Re:Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and ... by kale on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @12:44PM (#11955240)
This is a great point. I am gearing up to use a Raspberry Pi in a project for GPIO. It doesn't have to be low-powered necessarily, but the abandonment of the parallel port means that getting GPIO on a PC is more difficult.
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