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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers by tracker1 on Friday July 05, 2019 @01:17PM (#20364122)
Where do you put this variety of a dozen or so features... the end of the USB cable is already really small, and varying logos on that end? I'm not sure I'd even be able to distinguish.

The fact is, it really sucks and they should have limited it to maybe a subset of two... one that can only deliver basic charging and data, and one that can deliver all features. A $5 sku and a $25 sku (or close to). Unfortunately, it's all a mess.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers by ethbro on Friday July 05, 2019 @01:34PM (#20364235)
> Where do you put this variety of a dozen or so features

> (at least in manuals)

... and come to think of it, why not colored rings around each end of the cord? There aren't that many features.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers by tracker1 on Friday July 05, 2019 @05:55PM (#20366196)
From a couple other comments... the combination is 6 distinctions on two feature classes. Shoot, do I need red, or yellow for this device? It'd be worse than mini/micro usb transition.
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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers by ethbro on Friday July 05, 2019 @08:37PM (#20366983)
Two rings, one with 3 colors and one with 2 colors? Seems pretty simple.

"2018 MacBook Pros support green-purple for the highest feature set"

Far simpler than things people use every day: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_color_code

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers by jmiserez on Friday July 05, 2019 @06:52PM (#20366526)
Well now you still need to know, or else it doesn't work. How do you choose if they all look the same?
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