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All the other brands went along (slrpnk.net)

submitted 16 hours ago by blibla@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] kryptonidas@lemmings.world 48 points 11 hours ago (18 children)

I’m glad I can plug in one port and have a dual display setup, all peripherals, speakers, ethernet, charging, etc connected at my desk in one go.

If I want to leave, unplug one thing and I’m good to go.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago

Yup, and that's fantastic if you're working at a consistent desk or something. I have a USB-C hub at home and a USB-C monitor at work, which is pretty nice.

However, what's not nice is connecting ad-hoc. Let's say I go to an unfamiliar meeting room, HDMI is the way to go. Or if I'm going to plug in to my TV at a rental property or something. Or I'm at a friend's house and I want to transfer a bunch of data and they have a USB-A drive. I'm not going to bring a hub around with me everywhere I go, I'd prefer to just plug in whatever I need into the laptop directly.

USB-C is great, not having other options as well isn't great. Give me 2-3 USB-C ports that can all do charging, display out, and data, and also give me a handful of other ports (HDMI, USB-A, RJ-45, headphone jack, etc). It's very rare to find a laptop too thin to support it, most "thin" laptops are merely curved at the edge to make it look thin, when really it's plenty thick to support even full-fat RJ-45 (which it doesn't even need to, I've seen thin laptops with a flip-down port).

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Outside the Apple world, a dock connector has been the norm way before USB C was invented.

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[–] HeartyOfGlass@lemm.ee 139 points 13 hours ago (79 children)

Fuck firewire. Glad it's dead. USB C is the best thing to happen to peripherals since the mouse.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 84 points 12 hours ago (26 children)

USB C is the best thing to happen to peripherals since the mouse.

I would agree with you if there were a simple way to tell what the USB-C cable I have in my hand can be used for without knowing beforehand. Otherwise, for example, I don't know whether the USB-C cable will charge my device or not. There should have been a simple way to label them for usage that was baked into the standard. As it is, the concept is terrific, but the execution can be extremely frustrating.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago

Buying a basic, no-frills USB-C cable from a reputable tech manufacturer all but guarantees that it'll work for essentially any purpose. Of course the shoddy pack-in cables included with a cheap device purchase won't work well.

I replaced every USB-C-to-C or -A-to-C cable and brick in my house and carry bag with a very low cost Anker cable (except the ones that came with my Google products, those are fine), and now anything charges on any cable.

You wouldn't say that a razor sucked just because the cheap replacement blades you bought at the dollar store nicked your face, or that a pan was too confusing because the dog food you cooked in it didn't taste good. So too it is not the fault of USB-C that poorly manufactured charging bricks and cables exist. The standard still works; in fact, it works so well that unethical companies are flooding the market with crap.

[–] HeartyOfGlass@lemm.ee 44 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Hey that's a fair point. Funny how often good ideas are kneecapped by crap executions.

[–] NobodyElse@sh.itjust.works 35 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure the phrase “kneecapped by crap executions” is in the USB working groups’s charter. It’s like one of their core guiding principles.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 19 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

If anyone disagrees with this, the original USB spec was for a reversible connector and the only reason we didn't get to have that the whole time was because they wanted to increase profit margins.

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[–] viking@infosec.pub 49 points 12 hours ago (15 children)

I agree with USB-C, but there are still a million USB-A devices I need to use, and I can't be bothered to buy adapters for all of them. And a USB hub is annoying.

Plus, having 1-2 USB-C ports only is never gonna be enough. If they are serious about it, why not have 5?

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[–] tabular@lemmy.world 199 points 15 hours ago (40 children)