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The ongoing ability to never name anything consistently or well has to be a sick inside joke at USB-IF. This isn't entirely new. USB 3.1 Gen 2, which latter bec
by rektide 4y ago
The ongoing ability to never name anything consistently or well has to be a sick inside joke at USB-IF. This isn't entirely new. USB 3.1 Gen 2, which latter became USB 3.2 2x1, is sort of similar-ish in pattern. They're iterating & trying something new again! But I'm imagining saying something like "USB 3.2 2.0". We seem about there. Yeah that don't seem great.
Anyhow, super excited for this change. I love love love that home networking is futzing around with 2.5Gbps, but USB4+ has direct host-to-host attach at data-center speeds. The distance is way less but often people just want to plug their laptop into their NAS, and now there's amazing options built in on most computers (waiting for more NAS applicances!).
> USB4 Version 2.0 has also been updated to feature the latest versions of the DisplayPort standard and PCIe spec
Still love so much that we can tunnel all kinds of other protocols (DisplayPort, Thunderbolt, &c). Yeah, it's chaotic, but I love this chaos. Good chaos. Lots of possibilities chaos.
- standyro 4y ago> Yeah, it's chaotic, but I love this chaos. Good chaos. Lots of possibilities chaos. I disagree. Having to buy 5 cables (and return 4 of them) just to figure out which one supports the USB 4 spec correctly and doesn't have weird issues with Thunderbolt or DisplayPort is annoying. I shouldn't need to be an electrical engineer just to figure out whether it will work with a Thunderbolt hub, or deliver adequate speeds or display resolutions...
- mrjin 4y agoCannot agree more. I returned 3 USB-C docks in a row. It didn't matter cheap or expensive, none worked fully as expected.
- resoluteteeth 4y ago> The ongoing ability to never name anything consistently or well has to be a sick inside joke at USB-IF. This isn't entirely new. USB 3.1 Gen 2, which latter became USB 3.2 2x1, is sort of similar-ish in pattern. It literally dates back to USB 2, when USB 1 was helpfully renamed USB 2.0 full speed (as opposed to "high speed")
- Dylan16807 4y agoI've never seen anything labeled that ever, so even if the issue technically existed it wasn't a problem in practice the way the USB 3 rebranding has been.
- resoluteteeth 4y agoIt was only really an issue right when USB 2 came out around 2000-2005, but it was similarly confusing at the time.
- JohnFen 4y ago> Yeah, it's chaotic, but I love this chaos. Good chaos. Lots of possibilities chaos. This chaos makes me very reluctant to use it at all.