There are no fast charging USB C to A cables?
Maybe not by USB standards, yet plenty of chargers have no problem using other protocols to negotiate e.g. 9V charging. My Pixel 6 Pro for example negotiates 9V charging from USB-A ports that support it.
Usbc.wtf – an article and quiz to find the right USB-C cable
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#82@dang some of OP's comments are unintentionally being killed by the spam filter :)
Tip for the future: If you click on the time stamp of a comment, you'll see (perhaps only for accounts over a certain age and/or karma, I can't remember) additional things to click - "flag" on a currently live comment, or "vouch" on a currently dead comment.
When seeing a dead comment that doesn't deserve to be, click into it and then click on "vouch" and the comment can be brought back to life without needing dang to get involved. Of course one vouch may not be enough on its own, but hopefully others will do also.
Re: Usbc.wtf – an article and quiz to find the right USB-C cable
#83AFAIK the connector you name simply "Thunderbolt" is Mini-DisplayPort. It is mostly found on old MacBooks and mostly used to connect external displays, isn't it?
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#84Have to point a couple things out I found. The USB versioning table needs some corrections: - USB 3.1 Gen 2 is the same as USB 3.2 Gen 2 and is only found at 10Gbps. - The 40Gbps entry is wrong, the real spec name is USB4 Gen 3x2. But it was never really advertised as such so I'd leave that out. - 20Gbps is either USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 or USB4 Gen3x1, but I'd caution against adding this as the latter is quite rare to see (…
> 20Gbps is either USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 or USB4 Gen3x1, but I'd caution against adding this as the latter is quite rare to see (plus the above reason).
Did you confuse the latter with the former perhaps? I have never seen USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 in the wild. I have just bought a 20 Gbps USB4 cable, connected my laptop with my Android phone using it and it works lightning fast (as compared to USB 3.2 gen 1).
Re: Usbc.wtf – an article and quiz to find the right USB-C cable
#85@dang some of OP's comments are unintentionally being killed by the spam filter :)
Tip for the future: If you click on the time stamp of a comment, you'll see (perhaps only for accounts over a certain age and/or karma, I can't remember) additional things to click - "flag" on a currently live comment, or "vouch" on a currently dead comment. When seeing a dead comment that doesn't deserve to be, click into it and then click on "vouch" and the comment can be brought back to life without needing dang t…
Thank you! I've never noticed this. Now I need to find some dead comment to check whether I have the vouch button.
Re: Usbc.wtf – an article and quiz to find the right USB-C cable
#86AFAIK the connector you name simply "Thunderbolt" is Mini-DisplayPort. It is mostly found on old MacBooks and mostly used to connect external displays, isn't it?
Thunderbolt 1 & 2 used the Mini-DisplayPort connector. Thunderbolt 3 & 4 use the USB C connector. Thunderbolt is like external PCIE, you can connect a lot more than monitors with things like external GPUs being possible. You can use Thunderbolt 1&2 ports just as Mini-DisplayPorts too just like TB3&4 ports can be used just like USB C ports but they do more.
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#87Nice, but it could use expanding a bit to cover VR headsets.
Back in the day it was very hard to find a cable that would work with the Quest 2 in Link mode.
Re: Usbc.wtf – an article and quiz to find the right USB-C cable
#88AFAIK the connector you name simply "Thunderbolt" is Mini-DisplayPort. It is mostly found on old MacBooks and mostly used to connect external displays, isn't it?
Thunderbolt 1 & 2 used the Mini-DisplayPort connector. Thunderbolt 3 & 4 use the USB C connector. Thunderbolt is like external PCIE, you can connect a lot more than monitors with things like external GPUs being possible. You can use Thunderbolt 1&2 ports just as Mini-DisplayPorts too just like TB3&4 ports can be used just like USB C ports but they do more.
Sure. That's why I wrote "mostly".
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
I bought a gadget from eBay that does this. You plug both ends of the cable into it and it tells you what's inside the cable. It doesn't look like it's made anymore but there are similar gadgets still on eBay.
Do you have a link to one of them? I am having trouble finding anything that looks like this.
Re: Usbc.wtf – an article and quiz to find the right USB-C cable
#90Neat site. One more angle I didn't think about until recently was buying a USB-C cable that was magnetic/breakaway to minimize port wear on a laptop that only has one usb c/thunderbolt. I spend a bit of time around quizzing and surveying, that brain enjoyed this quiz and the following ideas popped to mind. - Like the big font. Could be even a bit bigger. Playing with centering could help draw attention down a bit eas…
> Neat site. One more angle I didn't think about until recently was buying a USB-C cable that was magnetic/breakaway to minimize port wear on a laptop that only has one usb c/thunderbolt.
This is a horrific idea if you care about your devices; they can detach and become misaligned, applying Vbus to pins that are definitely not capable of handling 20 V.