this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2024
189 points (95.2% liked)
Technology
59982 readers
3936 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I wish manufacturers would bother to mark the capabilities of their otherwise identical looking ports and cables, so we could figure out what the hell we were looking at when holding a Device That Does Not Work in one hand and a cable in the other.
I think this is the reason a number of standards are going to active cables, so the device will know the cable isn't up to standard.
Or in the case of USB-C, so it doesn't catch fire after having five amps cranked through it.
It's bully for the device if it knows, but that doesn't help the user who has just pulled one identical looking cable out of many from the drawer and will have no idea until they plug it in whether or not they will get a picture, nothing, near-undiagnosable partial functionality, or smoke.
I'm thinking that the user will get a notification that the cable they're using isn't the correct one.
On the screen that doesn’t work?
HDMI is reverse compatible a long way back, almost every device will fall back to a standard that doesn't require such an expensive cable.
Come on man, this is simple stuff.