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I use a USB-C to USB-A converter, plug in an old USB-A hub, and plug USB-A to USB-C converters into each port. Works great. You'll be stuck with USB 2.0 speed
by Groxx 4y ago
I use a USB-C to USB-A converter, plug in an old USB-A hub, and plug USB-A to USB-C converters into each port.
Works great. You'll be stuck with USB 2.0 speeds, but it connects to, passes data to, and charges every single dumb device I have with no problems. Mice, keyboard, USB-C headphones, my phone, other laptops that charge over USB-C... and that's all I ever really wanted.
Apple's 2-USB-C-port laptop was literal insanity.
- mschuster91 4y ago> Apple's 2-USB-C-port laptop was literal insanity. Actually... I do get the idea. 99.9% of the time I only use one of my four USB-C/TB ports, and that's for power. The other 0.1% is when I connect my Android phone for a firmware update (it's rooted, so have to go the hard way) or an SD card reader.
- Groxx 4y agoI routinely have keyboard + monitor + power :| I've done a lot of "unplug power to do something briefly" because of it. And tbh the vast majority of monitors-with-usb-hubs ports I've used have been one of: not worked at all, absurdly slow like <1Mb/s, or provide only like 0.5A of power shared across all ports. They're so, so bad. I know good ones exist, but offices don't tend to buy those. And I don't really want to drop $1k on a new monitor. Thankfully this is a secondary device, for fixing stuff that breaks from the M1 migration.