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Schrödinger's USB-C, you only know if it supports what you want after you plug it in (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Agreed, but not requiring labeling or some sort of method to identify was a real fuckup on their part.

My problem isn’t the existence of different tiers of cable, it’s that there is literally no way to know if the cable you’re using supports something until you try it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Agreed, but not requiring labeling or some sort of method to identify was a real fuckup on their part.

Yeah, we used to have that. It was great. They even made it so you couldn’t even fit the wrong cable in a port. They did that by having different connectors for different cables.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Cable hell

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah but with modern thin & light mobile devices, that’s a bad solution. Then you need multiple holes to serve multiple purposes, which impacts waterproofing and requires extra space & hardware.

One port to rule them all makes sense. But it should have had a way to identify cables capability at a glance. I still prefer having one cable that can charge all my devices, even if the trade off is some confusing situations when it comes to cable capability.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Is this true? There's no app to test these by plugging them into your phone? No chip in them that encodes a spec sheet?