Comment by 🚀 chickadeez

=> Re: "USB... The Golden Age Is Over" | In: u/stack

USB-C has tought me one thing...keep a cover over the charging port. My Otterbox broke and so now things are getting into the charging port, and getting pushed deeper eachtime I plug-in. Now I have months of sawdust and pocket lint in the port. Making it nearly impossible to plug the cord in without fear of it coming unplugged when I look away.

=> 🚀 chickadeez

2024-12-25 · 4 weeks ago

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=> 🚀 chickadeez · Dec 25 at 16:05:

Those were the days! /s

I do love how USB-C spec makes devices announce their input needs though. Makes mixing and matching plugs a breeze!

=> 💀 requiem · Dec 25 at 18:53:

Tbh I am starting to wonder how mad it would be to replace every USB connector I own with USBC. It’d be a lot of hacking but… Maybe it would bring some sanity.

=> 🚀 stack [OP] · Dec 25 at 20:18:

2 Lo-speed data

4 VBUS

8 Hi-speed data

2 Configuration

2 Sideband use

and ground

I think

=> 👻 darkghost · Dec 25 at 20:33:

I still occasionally wake up in a cold sweat having nightmares about lining up isosceles trapezoids with screws by touch alone in very hard to reach places.

=> 🚀 stack [OP] · Dec 25 at 21:34:

@darkghost -- given that only one (of two) orientation fit, it was surprisingly hard to get it in by touch sometimes...

My nightmares are more of the soldering 100 DB-25s and assembling the cases after fitting a tiny, home-made circuit board inside, my first lesson in how to become a thousandeer.

=> 👻 darkghost · Dec 25 at 22:21:

@stack Sounds like my early 30s if you replace it with triplicate DB9s per device. Fortunately I only made a dozen or so of these devices.

=> 🎵 random-elephant · Dec 25 at 22:43:

Agreed, the golden age of USB is behind us. Regulations (in the EU) tried to impose that all devices that need charging should use the same ports, which was a laudable idea but means the one-size-fits all USB is a thing of the past.

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=> 🚀 stack

USB... The Golden Age Is Over — I was never a big fan of USB, but for a while things were good. You could get a USB device, plug it into your computer's USB port using a USB cable, and things worked. But now, it's whack-a-mole with which cable to use, what port to use, and compatibility is not guaranteed. Just for charging my phone, most of my cables and chargers do not provide a fast charge. What really sucks is that it's hard to figure out what cable to use with which device -- some are...

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