• cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    The USB consortium still doesn’t have their shit together, USBC is a garbage standard.

    Open a drawer of random USBC cables and tell me which ones support which features, or even which features exist. It’s one connector and a half dozen different standards that support different speeds, data types, power amounts, display support, etc. It’s a nightmare to debug and shop for, and every devices you buy has a different random cable.

    The only USBC standard thats good is Thunderbolt because it is always clear what it supports, but Intel owns that standard.

    I’m not against phones being USBC, I’m against the stupid standard. Is incredibly annoying and confusing when I ask you for a cable and you give me one that doesn’t support fast charging (USB PD), or one that has usb 2.0 transfer speeds, or doesn’t support “alt mode” to work with my computer monitor.