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USB 3 Micro B was always funny to me. It's backwards compatible with USB 2 Micro connectors, so in theory it's a nice upgrade path at the time. In practice, t
by banana_giraffe 6y ago
USB 3 Micro B was always funny to me. It's backwards compatible with USB 2 Micro connectors, so in theory it's a nice upgrade path at the time. In practice, though, it's often used for USB HDDs, and often those drives couldn't function reliably with the power levels of a USB 2 connection, so using them with a USB 2 micro connector was not only much slower, but they'd just power down randomly.
I like lightning connector, but it too has it's silly hacks. The HDMI dongles are an amazing level of silliness, down to a slimmed down iOS image being copied to the dongle and run there to enable a h264 decoder to run on the dongle itself. It works, kinda sorta.
- PascLeRasc 6y agoWait, really? Do you have more information on the HDMI dongle? I'd read a whole novel about that.
- mmastrac 6y agoHere's a starting point - I recall seeing someone debugging the iOS boot on the dongle but can't find that info right now https://panic.com/blog/the-lightning-digital-av-adapter-surprise/ https://panic.com/blog/the-lightning-digital-av-adapter-surp...
- banana_giraffe 6y agoThis twitter thread has more details: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1155148789977636864.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1155148789977636864.html There's been some discussion here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20554462 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20554462