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These motherfuckers naming USB standards like Capcom named fighting games in the early 2000s. I think I'll wait to upgrade until USB4 2.0 Vs Alpha comes out.
USB4 2.0 Vs Alpha Cable Of The Year Edition - Directors Cut
And it still doesn't have all of the color variants...
USB4 2.0 Type-C Premium Edition 2024 (new ver) Remix Plus & Knuckles featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series
USB 4 2.0 Pro Plus Max Super TI - 420 Blaze It - Limited Edition
(it is not actually limited stock, that's just what it's called)
USB3.1 Type C Gen2 2x2
The crack these engineers pass around at the naming conventions must be top fucking shelf.
Cool thumbnail, USB-IF. Why don’t my 20 exact-same-looking but wildly-different-spec USB-C cables have fucking labels like that?
Because things take time
Can we have a way to tell apart the cables first. Finding out this cable is not compatible for this thing. USB C needs a distinctive and intuitive way for the average consumer to differentiate between different types of cables
Yes I agree but I will admit that it's probably pretty hard to do that unless you force all the features on every USB-C cable which is obviously not a good solution.
Yeah agree, but maybe they could have like 4 categories: A-general B-power C-display D-specialised
And then have a second rating system like 1-10 for example 1-bare bones 5-decent 10-the bells whistle
Like on a computer monitor I state I need a C5 or higher to work. Or I buy a A4B4 cable that is for general purposes or something.
This is just a quick idea, horrible idea actually, but because currently I do not know if for example I can use this cable in my drawer to charge my phone or use it as a display cable. So I feel like with USB C they wanted to make a universal cable, but now I feel like there is even more confusion than with USB B
Color coding? Just spitballing.
did they skip USB4 1.0? what about usb3.4 and who coulf forget usb 5bcded
USB skibidi?
TECH
POWER
UP
CONFIRMED
Can't wait for the USB4 2.0 Pro Max.
Ah, I look forward to even more extensions to the PD standard.
Yes, but what's the length/distance capabilities. I'm tired of new cables being able to handle this and that but only over a distance of 18" without being actively extended.
Sigh... I just bought a usb-c cable that doesn't support display stream compression but is fine for 160w power. No where did it ever say it wasn't capable of driving multiple monitors...
The cable doesn't support compression? I can understand not supporting video at all, but just with compression it doesn't work?