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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I don't agree with the good ol' days, beyond the blue connectors of USB3, there was no way of telling if a cable was charge only or data+charge. No way to tell if it was USB 1 or 2. If it was standard 0.5 amp or "fast charge", up to 3 amps. There was a lot of different plugs, regular, mini, micro, A and B types.
I agree with everything you say about USB-C tho.
It wasn't better, but it was readable. I don't want to go back, I want them to fix what we have now to be readable.
Here's an idea, all C cables supporting any level of PD must have the specs stamped on both plugs.
I'm down with it, but it's a lot
Wattage/transferspeed/displayport/thunderbolt/PD
Even the current icons don't tell you more than speed these days
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Terrible news for all my USB-C cables less than 2 & 1/2 inches long!
:) yeah good point & thanks for the pic
Oh for fuck's sake. So that's newer and has more bandwidth than USB4 gen2 and gen3, right?
At least we got away from the USB 3.x where 3.0 and 3.2 Gen 1x1 were the same thing, despite 3.0 and 3.2 having a 9 year gap between them so you kinda expected 3.2 to be faster, but it was only faster if it was an x2 flavor, so 3.2 gen 1x2 was the faster version (extra lane for data) of 3.0 and 3.2 gen 2x2 was the faster version of 3.1 I guess?
Whoever at USB-IF is in charge of this versioning needs to take a long walk off a short pier.
I gotta say the usb versioning thing is gotta be the most confusing mess. Its hard to understand.
That is a lot of space for very little info, that means nothing to anyone who doesnt already know what th codes mean. U4.2.40 would be just as useful.
This is the programmer art of graphic design.
Yeah. It was already happening circa USB3. It’s not because of the connectors, but the broadening spectrum of requirements of client devices.
Maybe USB-C was a missed opportunity to address it, but it certainly didn’t “start the fire”.
It was extremely easy to determine if a cable carried data. If there were four wires/metal strips at the end it had data. If it was only the two fat ones it was power only.
Nah, I just checked the USB Micro B cable that came with an older handsfree, all strips present but doesn't carry data. So no standard.