Comment on Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now?

wolre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• WaxedWookie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nobody tell them about the massively fragmented set of standards using the USB-C connection.

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  • wolre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I know, but at least we’d only have one physical connector at that point. While there are indeed a lot of standards for USB C, many of them are not all that relevant in day-to-day use when you’re mostly just looking to connect some basic USB peripherals like a mouse, a thumb drive or charge your phone.

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    • gornius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I disagree.

      More technical people would understand, but your average Joe would try to plug in their external monitor and RMA PC because it’s not working, same with slow charging phone speed etc.

      I’m honestly all in for keeping USB-A for basic I/O devices. Although inventing an USB-A female connector that works both sides and is backwards compatible would be neat.

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      • Scribbd@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Don’t think this didn’t happen for people that wished to copy something from or to an external drive, and RMAd as they found it too be too slow. They plugged it into a black usb 2.0 port instead of a red one because they thought it was dangerous. Ow wait, no. That motherboard manufacturer used green usb ports for USB3.2. What do you mean you didn’t try it because you didn’t know what they were for? Your hard drive cable has blue plugs, didn’t you at least try the blue ports? No? I understand you don’t want to lose the data. Do you have a backup? … You should. Ok, well you can test it with the mouse or keyboard. Yes, the top two usb port do have the icons for those, but that doesn’t mean… Oh, you already put the pc in the mail. See you in 2 weeks then.

        Also, switchable usb-a is already a thing, but is ver flimsy due to the necessity of moving parts.

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