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USB A. Ethernet. Dongles are here to stay.
by wl 5y ago
USB A. Ethernet. Dongles are here to stay.
- jackson1442 5y agoI can't remember the last time I've needed USB-A when not at my desk at home, except in the weird cases where I left my Yubikey 5C on my other laptop and needed to plug in my Yubikey A. Generally, when I actually need USB-A, I need a _lot_ of it, so hubs/dongles are a necessity regardless. And if I'm going to use a hub, I might as well get HDMI, Ethernet, charging, etc. out of it. The addition of HDMI has eliminated at least 90% of the cases where I've needed to take a dongle somewhere with me.
- asdff 5y agoI need to use usb-a every day to charge my 2020 iphone with the cable that came with it
- jackson1442 5y agoThe iPhone 12? You must have gotten a bad shipment because they’re supposed to include a USB-C to lightning cable.
- asdff 5y agoSecond gen iPhone SE.
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoI bought a USB-C lightning cable for my older iPhone X, but went magnetic wireless charging after so hardly ever use it.
- asdff 5y agoI have a wireless charger, but I will opt for the cable most of the time since its so much faster.
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoIt's a trade off: wired is faster at charging, wireless is faster at setting up the charging session. If you are going to bed anyways, wireless wins since you just plop the phone down and it is charged when you wake up in the morning.
- asdff 5y agoEven then I take wired charging. It takes all of one second to plug in a lightning cable to the phone. I've plopped my phone down on my charging pad on the other hand, and walked back to find that I had just missed my mark, and the phone was sitting there for hours not charging at all. Happens pretty often and now I need to spend an extra second to confirm that the phone is getting charge while on the pad, vs with lightning when its obvious and just works.
- seanmcdirmid 5y ago> I've plopped my phone down on my charging pad on the other hand, and walked back to find that I had just missed my mark, and the phone was sitting there for hours not charging at all. Yes, this is why Apple is including magnetic guided wireless charging in its new iPhones. Lacking that, I had to carefully choose my charging pad to avoid these kinds of problems. Fishing around for the lightning chord and then trying to line it up with the charging port on the phone is annoying, especially at 5AM in the morning when I'm half awake. Not sure this would be a win for everyone, but it is for me.
- benhurmarcel 5y agoMouse, external keyboard, headset... They all use USB A only.