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Is it almost new cable day again?

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There's always a whole lot of complaint about HDMI standards being a mess, and USB standards being a mess, and how two identical looking cables give you totally different results from each other.

And yes that is very true, but I'm still grateful for these standards for giving us 2+ decades of the same ports with evolving capabilities, versus the wild mess of proprietary solutions we had before it.

In the worst case you can plug a HDMI-looking cable into a HDMI-looking hole and SOMETHING will happen. It might not be as good as you wanted, but it will certainly be something. I'm glad for that.