I remember getting a USB 2.0 PCMCIA card for my laptop to use my enormous external DVD drive. The only DVDs I had at the time were X-Men, Star Wars Episode 1, and Nothing But Trouble.
That’s right, it goes in the USB-C hole!
Scart is missing. Well i’m not sure anyone misses that jank
Oh such a crisp picture though, when compared to the rf coax.
Understandable omission. It was only really in use in PAL regions.
Plugging that in by touch was always good for a laugh.
My favorite fucked-up thing from the past was the Macintosh circa 1990. The disk drive on this thing had no eject button – to eject a disk, you just did the oh-so-fucking-intuitive thing of dragging the disk icon over the trash can icon. But they did very conveniently place the big knobby power button for the whole computer (which looked exactly like an eject button) right above the disk drive. I spent a year constantly powering off the computer every time I wanted to just eject the disk.
Apple has always been an excellent example of how not to design a UI.
I would love to chain up some Apple UX/UI designers and force them to watch my 90 yo mother try to use her fucking iPhone.
Every interaction I’ve ever had with display port has resulted in me rage quitting. Did it ever do anything?
Are you referring to DP interfacing through UBS-C?
Ahem. Remember this?
I think your tuning sponge needs replacing
EU regulations are pretty cool
As with all standards, cheap manufacturing and poor labeling has ruined its perception.
Honestly, were it not for Hanlon’s Razor, I’d think tech companies are trying to sandbag open standards compliance so that standards fail and they can fall back to proprietary.
Not entirely sure I don’t think that anyway.
If you plug in the wrong one of these, you can kill any drives attached.
EDIT: Ask me how I know. Seriously, the plugs on each end should define the pin-outs. If it fits, it should not be possible for it to destroy anything, fail gracefully at most. That used to be one of the major reasons for different plug types.
I can’t find it now but there’s a reddit thread of someone who fried his Volta era enterprise GPU because dell shipped him the wrong cable that was incorrectly labeled as a Dell riser cable and not EPS (12v pins are flipped), so it burnt a hole though the card lol.
There seriously needs to be a cable Geneva convention for bs like this, it’s like the PC-building equivalent of the trench shotgun
All devices now have chips that do a handshake with the charger, exchanging information about supported standards and charging using the best common option. So I charge my prohe with a 90W laptop charger, even when it is unable to use the whole wattage
The point is that it is unclear which USB C can do what.
It also doesn’t actually matter at all. You just plug it in and it works. How well it works really doesn’t matter in 99% of cases.
And as time goes on the absolute minimum you will come across only goes up and never doesn’t work.
So unless your casing the absolute newest feature set where you absolute need say thunderbolt 4 not 3 or 2. Then it doesn’t matter.
For wattage you can just read the brick. Its required by law to have that information right on it. For the cable if it doesn’t work go but a new cable and retire your old one. Iv had two replace my main USB c to c cable once ever because it wouldn’t handle the wattage i needed it to.
Its just a seriously non fucking problem for 99.99% of people.
The minimum feature and watt spec of every cheap piece of shit is well past the point normal people care.
Wattage is not the issue.
It’s a solid rebuttal, especially when talking about cables (even certified cables are often bullshit), BUT USB-C testers are cheap and you can quickly assess which standards are available for a given cable/port combo.
Still the fact that both USB and HDMI boards thought the current situation was appropriate pisses me off.
Remember having to park your hard drive before turning off the computer?
Toslink is not dead yet. It still is the standard for sound systems. And IMO that’s not even a bad thing as it just. always. works.
Eh, HDMI is largely replacing it, even when it just carries audio and not video.
Idk about anyone else but I have had nothing but problems with HDMI
EARC sucks. Constant disconnects, no audio, no video, or both.
Despite all its problems, USB and especially USB-C have been a blessing.
