• Socsa@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    We are way past it being just a power thing though. USB-C is effectively the standard wired general purpose data bus these days. It’s slowly cannibalizing HDMI and DP as well (via thunderbolt), in addition to power cords.

    • cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Is so dumb that HDMI or DisplayPort over USB-C is called “alt mode”

      The USB Consortium are the only group worse at naming things than Microsoft.

      • averyfalken@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 year ago

        The worst parr is it used to be good naming scheme. After 3. They went back ended the meaning of 3.0 and 3.1 and made it bad