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I get the point you are trying to make, but there’s a lot of things besides just USB that are susceptible to frying your hardware. The root cause is shitty manu
by jsjohnst 9y ago
I get the point you are trying to make, but there’s a lot of things besides just USB that are susceptible to frying your hardware. The root cause is shitty manufacturing, there’s almost nothing practical the laptop can do to prevent a badly built device from doing at least some kind of damage.
- leetcrew 9y agosure, but manufacturers seem to be uncommonly bad at implementing the new USB 3.x specs, power delivery in particular. the majority of USB-C cables on sale violate the power delivery spec in important ways.
- jsjohnst 9y agoI haven’t seen or heard of a USB-PD cable issue outside of cheap Chinese knockoff crap. Have you?
- leetcrew 9y agojust going off my memory of this spreadsheet [1]. [1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wJwqv3rTNmORXz-XJsQaXK1dl8I91V4-eP_sfNVNzbA/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wJwqv3rTNmORXz-XJsQa...