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Re: Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon

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Post by magicalhippo » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 2:01 AM UTC

alias_neo wrote: post #265

magicalhippo wrote: post #183

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AFAIK that 3A figure for the Pi includes power for the USB ports on the Pi. So if you don't load up the USB ports, you can get away with more like 1.5-2A, depending on what you do.

Thanks. I intend to use it as a cluster ski no need for USB peripherals, I'll keep that in mind!

FWIW my 4GB RPi 4 pulls about 1.2A peak when using the CPU full tilt. Haven't stressed the GPU yet so don't know about that. This without any USB except wireless Logitech keyboard/mouse receiver, and with Wifi enabled.

Re: Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon

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Post by anoncareer0212 » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 2:31 AM UTC

jshevek wrote: post #211

anoncareer0212 wrote: post #195

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it lets people say 'i want an iphone' while still feeling reasonable

OnePlus, LG, and Xiaomi are all included under 'intuitive'. (Though Samsung appears to not be?)

Ugh, I feel awful snarking now - that is strange to me, I could see OnePlus and Xiaomi, but LG and not Samsung is a headscratcher... and honestly, if you include all those, it seems like a "has top 5 marketshare except Huawei" checkbox...maybe that's a good thing?

Anyways, enough rambling, thanks for sharing :)

Re: Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon

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Post by alias_neo » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 5:16 AM UTC

magicalhippo wrote: post #271

alias_neo wrote: post #265

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Thanks. I intend to use it as a cluster ski no need for USB peripherals, I'll keep that in mind!

FWIW my 4GB RPi 4 pulls about 1.2A peak when using the CPU full tilt. Haven't stressed the GPU yet so don't know about that. This without any USB except wireless Logitech keyboard/mouse receiver, and with Wifi enabled.

Useful information thanks. That's much lower than the recommended 3A.

Re: Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon

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Post by bloopernova » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 5:10 PM UTC

chx wrote: post #268

bloopernova wrote: post #260

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Ah, this is why the displayport to 1080 screen connection looked so bad. I have a mediagear usb-c hub and also a cable matters thunderbolt to dual displayport adapter. Video is much better over the latter, for sure.

DisplayPort is fine. DisplayLink is not. The confusion is deliberate, the company renamed itself to DisplayLink a few months after the standard came out.

Ahhh, thank you, that clears it up.

Re: Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon

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Post by bloopernova » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 5:16 PM UTC

chx wrote: post #270

chx wrote: post #268

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DisplayPort is fine. DisplayLink is not. The confusion is deliberate, the company renamed itself to DisplayLink a few months after the standard came out.

Sources: it was USB NIVO before the DisplayPort standard came out https://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/491654 and then https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20061106005769/en/New... https://glenwing.github.io/docs/DP-1.0.pdf DisplayPort Standard Version 1 May 1, 2006

Thank you for replying to me multiple times with concise, clear, and informative comments. I really appreciate that.

Re: Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon

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Post by fpgaminer » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 6:24 PM UTC

atombender wrote: post #269

fpgaminer wrote: post #110

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I wouldn't trust Dell with this. I have a Dell monitor that I bought because it has a USB-C port that supported both PD and video. But it turns out it doesn't work well with MacBooks (constantly loses connection, and messes with the MacBook's sleep). Dell acknowledged the issue and released a patch that fixed it ... for Windows machines. They refuse to fix it for MacBooks because they don't want to support a competit…

I have the same monitor. It's great, but I ran into the issues you mentioned with multiple USB-C docks, including Apple's own multiport adapter. Have you been able to get anything to work?

I've only tried my MacBook. Make sure you're on the monitor's latest firmware at least. That doesn't fix anything for MacBooks but the latest patch was supposed resolve USB-C issues for other devices.

Re: Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon

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Post by markdown » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 10:44 PM UTC

arnaudsm wrote: post #239

markdown wrote: post #229

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In the camera section, what does "tropicalise" filter?

It's a common denomination for environmental seal. Similar to IP67.

Ahh, ok. Thanks, that makes sense.

Re: Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon

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Post by thirdsun » Sat, Feb 01, 2020, 2:41 PM UTC

vxNsr wrote: post #158

calaphos wrote: post #104

For choosing the right product based on a list of spec requirements I can highly recommend the price comparison website Geizhals [1]. They offer an insane amount of filter options over a wide category of products. Want USB C hub with Power Delivery, Gigabit LAN, a card reader and at least 2 display options? Here are your options: [2]. Also works for Mainboards, TVs and a whole lot of other stuff [1] https://geizhals.…

Seems like a great website for EU, does anyone know of something similarly detail oriented for US-based consumers?

I‘d imagine that you could do price comparisons elsewhere once you have found the product meeting your requirements. And finding that product is where Geizhals actually shines due to their incredible attribute normalization and filtering options, which should be useful even for non-european users. Price comparison is just an additional bonus.

Re: Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon

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Post by MaxBarraclough » Sun, Feb 02, 2020, 12:12 AM UTC

mdolon wrote: post #194

Roritharr wrote: post #40

I would prefer if it had less products but actually reviewed them, there is so much crap on Amazon you really need to try something out, disassemble it, sometimes even measure it to figure out if it's crap or not. SEO Spam really ruined product search / reviews. Just last week I tried hard but couldn't find a good review of USB-C Power Adaptors, just page after page of SEO optimized spam without actual content.

I actually wrote about this just last week: http://mdolon.com/essays/amazon-has-ruined-search-and-google...

Interesting post, thanks.

Re: Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon

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Post by ghostpepper » Thu, Feb 06, 2020, 2:42 AM UTC

arnaudsm wrote: post #238

ghostpepper wrote: post #193

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How can you reduce phones to a single checkbox that says whether they're "intuitive" or not?

I reduce iPhone and stock Android to "intuitive", since it's the #1 criteria for most tech-savy users.

Intuitive is a very personal term, in the sense that everyone has their own definition of what is intuitive and what may be intuitive for me may not be intuitive for you.

A better label for that category might be "No third party software"?