• @Jikiya
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    163 months ago

    Handy guide, but this whole USB situation is a cock-up, since it needs the freakin guide in the first place.

    • @Crashumbc
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      113 months ago

      Meh, while there really could be less. At least they are all physically compatible. And backwards protocol compatible to the lowest common denominator. Which is a huge step forward.

      • @jiberish
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        53 months ago

        Seriously, as an IT person, I still never know what most of my USB ports are capable of, but I’m glad they are backwards compatible. If something is slow, then I try a different cable and port.

      • @[email protected]
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        03 months ago

        At least they are all physically compatible.

        They mostly support an electrical least-common-denominator (like, I have USB devices that won’t accept USB PD for charging below a given level), but they definitely aren’t all physically-compatible. There are a lot of physical USB connectors.

        • @Crashumbc
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          13 months ago

          Thank you, I had almost forgotten that you can’t make a comment on the Internet without someone misunderstanding even basic assumptions. Like in this case, a picture exclusively showing usb-c, could be assumed that a comment about it, would also be referring to usb-c.

          P.S. (I’m fully aware the last one is usb-a, the writer even makes note of it and why they included it).

          • @[email protected]
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            -13 months ago

            There nothing in the comment that you are responding to or OP’s original post that is specific to USB-C. OP references USB-A and USB-C both, and the comment you responded to doesn’t specify USB-C.