• nyan@lemmy.cafe
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    2 months ago

    It’s disturbing that I kinda miss the pre-USB days when, if the cable matched the port physically, it also matched the port in terms of capabilities (unless someone was doing something deliberately stupid). At least that meant you knew right away whether you had the right cable or not.

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      2 months ago

      USB-C has been a blessing and curse. One port that does everything, except when it doesn’t. Even charging is now complicated by the “guess the cable that supports the right PD type” game.

      Not that the old days were much better. I don’t miss faffing around with the myriad of serial and parallel port modes and settings.

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        2 months ago

        Problem with the old days was that you had to have each kind of cable for it to work. No LPT cable? No printer. Hope the cable is long enough. There was no integrated Bluetooth or wifi, or even a dongle available. Haven’t even gotten around to the internals yet with ribbon cables for floppy or IDE or whatever.

        Yeah, USB-C comes with it’s own issues, but I much prefer this to the bin full of cables, plugs, wall warts, connectors and adapters that were kept on hand just in case.

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        2 months ago

        +1.

        I wish we had type c but all cables were labeled with clear functionality from the start. I don’t like data/power only cables.

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          2 months ago

          These have their place, though. The obvious example is public charging cables, which at least have had PoC for exploits.

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        2 months ago

        PD cables aren’t expensive enough to just buy good ones have them for all your chargers.

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      2 months ago

      At least with barrel jacks that would have been an easy way to frie your electronics back then. With USB C you might encounter incompatibility, but at least you won’t break anything (with a few exceptions like the Nintendo Switch getting bricked by connecting certain 3rd party chargers to the official dock, or using a bad 3rd party dock)