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[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The problem is the wires can have the same head and not support everything the port can so not all wires work so you still end up digging through wires only now you also have to test each one, you theoretically could get only Super wires that support 40Gbps, Dp, 250W etc but those are expensive so you won't and even if you do no body else will do you'll always end up with a bunch of charge only (throw those away immediately) or low power or need the one that carries video but also need one that does 250w or whatever, the whole standard is a mess and it's all because they tried to o shove everything into one cable, something we always knew was s bad idea because video and sound and data and networking all take different signals and different voltages.

[–] Mistic@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I just bought a couple of cables that support basically everything, and that's it.

They connect to everything, they charge everything, they are interchangeable, and they don't bottleneck.

Granted, I do not care about video and sound. To me, those are only needed for plug-once-and-forget devices, so DP/XLR/etc make sense. Data and charging, however? Yeah, USB-C is so much better than what he had to deal with, despite the standard being kind of a mess.