Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop!
tyler@programming.dev 3 days agoWhich cable are you talking about? This one supports data and mentions nothing about alt modes. ikea.com/…/rundhult-usb-c-to-usb-c-black-white-20…
couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
The one that came with my monitor. Easy!
If I ever need a new one for such an extremely specific task, I´ll make sure to spend a few minutes to make sure I buy the right one. Takes a minute, but easy!
The Ikea one says it only supports 480Mbps, so that´s a no-no for video. Sad, but easy!
tyler@programming.dev 3 days ago
lol, no it’s not easy. You saying “easy” doesn’t mean it is in any sense of the word. Like the person you’ve been responding to before said, usb c can support many things and not support others. For example, USB C cables can literally be unidirectional! That sure isn’t listed because it’s assumed to work bidirectionally, but it’s not a requirement. I literally have a unidirectional usb c cable in fact.
Just cause it says 480 doesn’t mean jack when
You weren’t talking about this cable originally, you were making a claim about a cable that literally wasn’t mentioned in the article. I gave an example of a cable that directly disproved your comment in a facetious manner.
No consumer should be expected to know usb c standards (that’s literally the point of this conversation)
480 Mbps has nothing to do with supporting video. This Reddit thread explains it way better than I can, but support for a feature in the cable has absolutely nothing to do with data transfer rate. www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/…/j5dohy5/
couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I was the one that mentioned the 100W Ikea cable as a cheap example to combine with that charger
Too bad if someone doesn´t want to know the tiniest bit about standards. They´ll have to get help if they don´t want to read the packaging or symbology. Meanwhile the rest of us can enjoy hooking up our phones to our laptop chargers or monitors without having to waste resources on unnecessarily complex cables
If you want to do something fancy like hooking up to your monitor, you´ll have to use the unusually sturdy cable that came with it or take 2 minutes to read about which cable you need