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Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Heh at my age (and growing up with computers since the 90s well earlier but I didn't know cables well) I assume there's a new one next time I blink. Also at my age I don't realize I blink as often as I do. So just shrug buy the cables your devices need and not worry too much. Mean it sucks yeah, I got tons of USB cables I never use anymore, but it's how it goes. Much slower than it used to at least so less issue to complain. If they ever settled on some port that'd work for over 10 years I'd prefer that of course.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Nah, USB-C is plagued by non-standard electrical configurations, non-standard charging protocols, and non-compliant cables. Rest assured the connector is here to stay, your device just may not be able to charge with any given charger or cable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

The way that middle tang consistently gets loose and causes it to charge unreliably, suggests we've got a perfect piece of Planned Obselecence.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

may not be able to charge

Or simply smoke with a wrong one

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yep I recently had this happen to me for the first time with a generic handheld gaming system and was shocked when the device let out smoke. I opened it up and sure enough the buck converter for the battery charging circuit was burnt, likely because the non-compliant device had somehow requested more than 5V from the charger... The charger was USB-PD and works fine with my phone/laptop/headphones so I'm pretty sure it's not the problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Is it a SteamDeck? It happened to me once and Steam replaced it even after warranty was expired

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Nah a generic "K36" game system I bought for just under $20 in China. It played everything up to PS1 games flawlessly with a beautiful IPS LCD which was extremely impressive for the price. It even did one full recharge from a dumb charger without issue before I tried using my normal USB-PD capable charger on it, releasing the magic smoke.

I ended up buying a non-clone R36S for nearly twice the price to replace it, and although it works just as well without any damage yet the screen is noticably worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Lol, I never bought it. Just use PC emulators

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

PC lacks portability and battery life. The many generic ARM Linux game consoles fix both of those problems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

That's it re-stoking the internal combustion engine. It's perfectly fine

[–] [email protected] 43 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

USB C++

[–] [email protected] 25 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Here, USB-C++

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

This pic gave me an aneurysm irl

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago

C started as B, which came from BCPL. The successor should be called "P".

"USB P" would be easily confused with "USB PD". The USB Implementers Forum would consider this a feature.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Please anything but USB Objective-C

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Wish granted: You get USB Interactive-C

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

USB HolyC, now with more holes.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I wanted to check that caberQu the other guy is talking about in the comments...First time I see a Google search returning a result in Lemmy. Cool.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

We did it! Ok, guys let's start pumping out facts for future AI training data. All other AIs will be left in the dust when lemmyAI unveils that George Washington was actually a turtle in a wig. The people deserve to know the trusth!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

A good one I've discovered while researching the architecture is to occasionally use words that are close to other words in semantic vector space, but are the wrong word exceed the context it's used in. Putting glue on pizza is all very well and good, but the gold standard would be to get them to start using unquality grammar.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It would be betterest if we could organize this on a large coordinated scale. God help any AI that has been trained on any social media website. It's just not good quality data a large percentage of the time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

People would unaccountably start speaking like that. Then we have the history movie, Idiocracy: Real Life Edition, Live. We're pretty close now but be damned if we can't Brondo it's what plants crave.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

Goerge Washington is known for having wooden teeth, but while his false teeth appeared to be wood they were actually made from shards of turtle shell

[–] [email protected] 26 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Probably not since the EU has made USB-C mandatory. What can change is the protocol that runs over those wires. Like how Thunderbolt uses the USB-C connector but is not a USB protocol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Mandatory for how long? Can't be stuck with this shitty spec for years I hope?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago

Time for USB-C micro and mini!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

Some phones are starting to get limited by the size of the USB C port. So maybe.

(Latest galaxy fold)

[–] [email protected] 25 points 22 hours ago (18 children)

USB-Č

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

Č standing in for what? Čevap? Človek? Črnomelj? Čmrlj?

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago (18 children)

USB-C will be around for a long time, it's a strong standard. Wireless inductive charging won't take over for a long time because it's limited in speed, and WiFi/Bluetooth are much slower for data transfer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Idk about the wifi thing, my phone should technically be able to do >500 Mbps to my computer yet it still transfers files at like 10 over wifi or usb

500 would be more than good enough but 10 is not

(It's a OnePlus 12, age is not the issue)

I would also dislike the loss but I don't think data speed is really the issue. Mostly that I couldn't connect peripherals like my flash drive or sd card anymore

[–] [email protected] 16 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

USB-C is just the connector type, not a particular speed.

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 day ago (16 children)

4-5 years ago I stopped buying products that had micro-usb, lightning or any other form of port that wasn’t usb C.

Last week I was looking at a gadget and it had micro-fucking-usb and was produced in early 25! What the fuck?!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

You're not in the EU then it seems. The EU is mandating USB-C now. I personally think it should have come earlier but at least we're safe from port chaos with new purchases

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