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Thunderbolt 3 uses the USB-C format. Headline from the official thunderbolt website: "Thunderbolt™ 3 – The USB-C That Does It All" -- https://thunderbolttechn
by jrochkind1 5y ago
Thunderbolt 3 uses the USB-C format.
Headline from the official thunderbolt website: "Thunderbolt™ 3 – The USB-C That Does It All"
-- https://thunderbolttechnology.net/blog/thunderbolt-3-usb-c-does-it-all https://thunderbolttechnology.net/blog/thunderbolt-3-usb-c-d...
This whole sub-thread is just a really good hilarious demonstration of the whole problem, nobody has any idea how to figure out what a given cable or port will do anymore. We can't even talk about it without getting confused. (But can still be snarky to others who we think got it wrong, even when we're wrong ourselves. It's the internet, we'll never run out of superciliousness!)
- netizen-936824 5y agoI've dealt with it too. Some USB c extenders even won't carry some signals, such as video. It's an unbelievable frustrating mess. Just because thunderbolt uses the same USB c style connector doesn't make it usb c I wouldn't think. I figured the connector itself would have its own name, such as rj45 does. But who knows with this shit show.
- jrochkind1 5y agoI believe the name of the connector is "USB-C". So that's thunderbolt over USB-C, which is what all thunderbolt 3/4 is. The wikipedia article is both helpful and hilariously complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB-C https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB-C