• disasterpiece@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    USB-C has its own issues with standardization though. Good luck telling if a random USB-C cable supports fast charging (or what level of fast charging). Some don’t even support data transfer, others are lightning quick.

    Don’t get me wrong, I love USB-C and have a ton of high quality cables around my apartment despite being an iPhone user. But it still suffers from the same issue described in this comic. The one thing it solves is unifying the port, everything else is still chaos.

    https://www.androidauthority.com/state-of-usb-c-870996/

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      1 year ago

      That comes to the issue of USB as a protocol. That information should be branded on the connector at each end.

      I do miss the days too when the connectors were colour-coded.

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      1 year ago

      I just only buy the best 240W USB4 USB-C cables. They have the correct markings on them – “40Gbps” and “240W”. No issues identifying them.

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        1 year ago

        I only buy nice (not just 3A 2.0) cables that have proper labeling on the cable. And then i can just assume that all unlabeled cables are simple 3A 2.0 cables.