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Re:USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed ... by alanbernstein on Monday October 09, 2023 @04:00PM (#37824757)
Ah, good to know. I'm tempted to respond that this means the spec has failed to address an important use case. But I'm certainly not going to learn enough of the spec to back up that claim.
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Re:USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed ... by Ajedi32 on Monday October 09, 2023 @04:16PM (#37824959)
You're not wrong; it's an unfortunate limitation, even though there are solid technical reasons for it. As a sibling commenter pointed out, a standards-compliant alternative would basically just be a USB hub with a single USB-C port.
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