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jules | 6 months ago

USB-c is absolutely not good enough. The connectors are often incompatible due to tiny manufacturing tolerances, cables from different manufacturers often fall out of the port after longer term use, don't make good connection so you have flaky charging, the cables and connectors look the same but are actually incompatible due to supporting only USB 2/3/4 or thunderbolt, whether displayport/hdmi alt mode is supported, etc. This small short-term gain at the cost of locking in USB-c forever was a terrible idea, brought to you by the same hypercompetent group that mandated cookie banners.

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eliaspro|6 months ago

Cookie-banners were never mandated. It's just a fucking stupid way by the website operators, trying to circumvent data privacy regulation.

And when it comes to USB-C. Sure, it's far from perfect, but it's a great foundation to built upon and improve.

jules|5 months ago

That's the point, the regulation effectively locks in USB-C as it is.

qcnguy|6 months ago

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