Richard Gaywoodwell done to everyone involved in making usb so complicated that now the only way to understand what it's doing is to put diagnostic screens on charging cables
just a really solid set of decisions all the way down
Not a Spring Onion@penllawen
I would prefer a little box with dip switches in the middle, so I can reconfigure the cable on demand.
I would prefer a little box with dip switches in the middle, so I can reconfigure the cable on demand.
Rudi (ryjelsum)@wakame @penllawen i actually have little modules like this for usb-pd. i think they might also work for some of the other charge protocols, but i haven't checked, they're cool though. i think they're one of those knockoffs of someone's open source design that made it to aliexpress so they're fairly ubiquitous on any selling platform that allows people to list their own junk (ebay, amazon, etc)
I still don't quite understand why we can't have a base protocol and then negotiate the add-ons that both sides support and want.
Similar to "why is every computer port shrinking, only ethernet stays its clunky self?". 
gunstick@wakame @rudi @penllawen USBc over Ethernet!
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Then you have the PD Ethernet cable, and the Thunderbolt Ethernet cable. You even need the Ethernet Ethernet cable as the PD-Thunderbolt Ethernet cable does not support Networking.
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Then you have the PD Ethernet cable, and the Thunderbolt Ethernet cable. You even need the Ethernet Ethernet cable as the PD-Thunderbolt Ethernet cable does not support Networking.