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Re:USB-C was supposed to simplify our lives, but instead it’... by mcv on Thursday October 01, 2020 @12:18PM (#24652722)
All of this just underscores what a terrible standard USB-C is. You have no idea what's what anymore by looking at it. Everything seems to fit together, but if you do it, you damage your devices.

It would have been better if they'd launched another dozen different plug standards. In situations when there's only one thing you should be connecting to your device, that's the way to go. Universal sockets only make sense if they're actually universal.

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Re:USB-C was supposed to simplify our lives, but instead it’... by Goronmon on Thursday October 01, 2020 @01:01PM (#24653363)
All of this just underscores what a terrible standard USB-C is.

Nothing above seems related to the standard. At the end of the day, its still comes down to the manufacturers to follow the standard in order for everything to to work. But the standard itself can't stop any particular manufacturer from making a non-compliant product.

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Re:USB-C was supposed to simplify our lives, but instead it’... by Gibbon1 on Thursday October 01, 2020 @03:14PM (#24655060)
It's a bad standard if shorting adjacent pins fries equipment. That the people created a standard like that means they aren't competent to create these sort of standards.
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Re:USB-C was supposed to simplify our lives, but instead it’... by colejohnson66 on Thursday October 01, 2020 @01:46PM (#24653968)
There are trademarks on the USB logos, so the USB consortium not enforcing their trademark on standards violators (using their logo) is something they could do, but don’t.
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