Comment on Some basic info about USB

Jikiya@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Meh, while there really could be less. At least they are all physically compatible. And backwards protocol compatible to the lowest common denominator. Which is a huge step forward.

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  • jiberish@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Seriously, as an IT person, I still never know what most of my USB ports are capable of, but I’m glad they are backwards compatible. If something is slow, then I try a different cable and port.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At least they are all physically compatible.

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    They mostly support an electrical least-common-denominator (like, I have USB devices that won’t accept USB PD for charging below a given level), but they definitely aren’t all physically-compatible. There are a lot of physical USB connectors.

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    • Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thank you, I had almost forgotten that you can’t make a comment on the Internet without someone misunderstanding even basic assumptions. Like in this case, a picture exclusively showing usb-c, could be assumed that a comment about it, would also be referring to usb-c.

      P.S. (I’m fully aware the last one is usb-a, the writer even makes note of it and why they included it).

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      • tal@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There nothing in the comment that you are responding to or OP’s original post that is specific to USB-C. OP references USB-A and USB-C both, and the comment you responded to doesn’t specify USB-C.

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