Usually I put the channel name in the title but I think this one would hit the slur filter.

    • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      6 days ago

      OK yeah but what if I want to plug in a GPU through the USB form factor (shape) and have it render a video game as quickly as plugging it into the motherboard? What if I have an audio interface and I want it to have zero latency when I play guitar into the mic, transfer through USB to my computer, and have it play through my headphones? And also the computer has to tell my drum machine to change settings in real time with an antiquated protocol called MIDI over USB?

      Basically, I’m saying there are a million fiddly use cases with special requirements and a “universal” standard has to work with all of them.

    • buh [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      11·
      7 days ago

      it costs the world an extra 30ish cents for every device and cable to do that, which doesn’t seem like a lot until you realize how many devices and cables are out there

        • buh [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          9·
          7 days ago

          I hate what happened to USB-C but it’s also the kind of shit I would come up with if you made me work on something I don’t give a fuck about and I don’t know what that means. “Just add another circuit so the host knows what voltage it can use, power it with those reserved pins nobody uses” lol

  • invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    I don’t know if it’s a good or bad thing that you can have this variety of cable types on a standard

    Now I’m not just thinking about the port, but also the usually very opaque cable.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Cables should definitely just be “wire from pin X1 to pin X2” otherwise you get weird latent failures and manufacturers doing what you see in that picture.

        Now the only “correct” cable is the $129 Apple cable because it implements the whole spec instead of just the pinouts.

        • stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          3·
          6 days ago

          I get no joy from saying this but the $5 gas station lightning cable universe would have been a better future for us because lightning was designed to break at the cable in case of stress and required fusible links in the cable ends to prevent fires.

          If a cable manufacturer cheaped out and decided not to provide a 0ohm resistor then the little ic at the end of the cable (required, nothing works without it) functions as a fuse in a pinch.

          Usbc is a great example of doing it wrong because the people who do it right asked to be paid too much and also now own the rights to the concept of doing it right.

  • sisatici [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    Honestly, usb c is very good for phones. Previous USB b had some problems where it will charge the phone only when the cable was at a certain angle after some use and my current USB c has never shown such problem

  • AernaLingus [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    7 days ago

    Ooh, this looks super interesting–thanks for sharing! I don’t think I’ll have time to watch it today but I’ll try to check it out tomorrow.

  • stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    God usbc sucks so much. It’s like the connector designed by 60s-80s British dystopia.

    If you don’t know exactly what kind of cable you’re plugging into exactly what kind of port, please for your own safety only use the cable that came with the thing you’re plugging up and the power adapter too.

    What I’m about to say sounds insane but mixing and matching certain types of usbc chargers, cables and devices can start a fire.

    I wouldn’t have believed it if it hadn’t happened to a family member and we hadn’t taken apart the cable, device and charger to figure out what went wrong.