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> this is already a solved problem through color coding Speaking from experience, I don't think most end users are liable to pay enough attention to their port
by tenacious_tuna 6y ago
> this is already a solved problem through color coding
Speaking from experience, I don't think most end users are liable to pay enough attention to their ports to notice the color coding. I remember family members being confused by the blue 3.0 ports when those were a thing--now there's also red ones, and different color C ones, and some C ports have the little lightning bolt and some don't, and most users don't know what THAT means.
The value-add of USB C was supposedly you didn't have to buy different cables for different purposes now, you could just slap everything on a C port. But of course that's not truly the case, and we're now in a messy soup of standards and capabilities that even to seasoned tech professionals are hard to disentangle, much less for end users.
Calling this a solved problem 'cuz they slapped some colors on some of the ports is missing the forest for the trees.
- yarcob 6y agoDoes the bolt mean Thunderbolt or power delivery?
- sgtnoodle 6y agoMy wife's laptop has three USB-C ports and the laptop charges off all 3, but only one has the bolt. I strongly suspect it means Thunderbolt support, i.e. it's the only port that will work well with a dock.
- sgtnoodle 6y agoI built a new desktop recently, and the case has a USB-C port on its top panel. I had to buy a $20 PCI-E card to have somewhere legit to plug the port into because my motherboard didn't support it. I had the option of trying to make it USB 3.1 or whatever, thunderbolt, or USB 3.0 or even 2.0 via a series of adapters that probably shouldn't exist but do on ali express. I doubt I'll ever plug anything but a smart phone into it, but it seemed worth it for the feng shui.