Comment on Some basic info about USB

merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• tal@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’ll want to run USB PD, not to be confused with the USB “P” and “D” label which refers to DisplayPort, not to be confused with some other ways of transporting DisplayPort over USB. And you’ll want charging support, so look for the USB lightning bolt that means “USB charging”, not to be confused as the different USB lightning bolt that means “Thunderbolt”, which isn’t the same thing as the Lightning connector that is about the same size as the USB-C connector.

  Piece of cake.

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  • InvertedParallax@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hennimore!!!

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    • Hadriscus@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      exactly hahaaaaaa thought of this

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  • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    DisplayPort not to be confused with display port, when someone asks you for a “display port cable” and you start going to pick one of VGA/HDMI/DVI cables instead.

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• thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The P and D symbol is the DisplayPort logo. I’m not sure when it was first used, but the DisplayPort standard itself is quite a bit older than USB Power Delivery.

  It’s still confusing though regardless of which can lay the best claim to the letters P and D. I would have suggested Power Delivery could use some sort of lightning bolt symbol, but then I realised that would probably conflict with Thunderbolt, which also uses USB-C.

  It’s almost as if having all these different features would be easier to differentiate if they had different physical shapes.

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, Display Port is old, but I’ve never seen that P and D symbol before, or at least never noticed it. And, even if it existed before Display Port over USB, you’d think that that potential confusion was a good opportunity to come up with a new logo for something that would be put next to a USB port.

    It’s almost as if having all these different features would be easier to differentiate if they had different physical shapes.

    I think the goal was always that you’d only ever need one type of port and one type of cable and that that port and cable could do anything. Unfortunately, because there are so many revisions and so many features are optional, you’ve now got a situation where the port is the right shape, the cable fits into the port, but you can’t get the thing to work without reading the fine print, or without decoding obscure logos.

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How about a monitor/TV.

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• Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also, giving anything the initials “DP” is weird and creepy as fuck, given that “DP” was already a well-established acronym in the porn industry years before DisplayPort was even conceptualized.

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you’re going to forbid any 2-letter initialism because it might have naughty connotations, you’re not going to be left with many options.

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  • antimidas@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Given that there are engineers involved I wouldn’t be at all surprised if that was deliberate. Trying to get potentially offensive or otherwise NSFW acronyms past marketing without them noticing is practically an industry-wide joke at this point, which is why they are so prevalent in the FOSS space. (no marketing staff to complain)

    If that’s true in this case, though, hats off to whoever managed to get it though to official commercial standards

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  • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dungeon Party

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  • Chekhovs_Gun@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    person with the initials DP as left the chat crying

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like how they (seem to) try to get away from Latin alphabet, just to go with DP for display port.

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