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I wish USB would just go away. Even the most basic possible use cases just fundamentally don't work, and are becoming worse each year. At least 10-15 years ago
by silverpepsi 4y ago
I wish USB would just go away. Even the most basic possible use cases just fundamentally don't work, and are becoming worse each year.
At least 10-15 years ago I was trying to copy data from one USB harddrive to another. I was already using my ports so I tried to do it through a hub. This was in the day where machines still had 3-4 ports, maybe even 5. But after my webcam and mouse, I was full.
I was poor and broke then and always had cheapskate hubs. It would always work but you'd have weird errors or crashes and finally one drive would stop responding midway through a 6 hour operation.
Now 2022 with a decent job I said it's time to properly experience USB and splurged on a well-known $100+ one.
Laptops in 2022 now have ONLY ONE USB PORT, both my Macbook and Huawei. The second port is for power. And? .... Yeah USB hubs don't work at all. Same crap. I was blaming my Xiaomi phone & Windows 10 for the fact I can't back up my photos .....for months. Nope it was the gdamn USB hub. And it's ALWAYS 100% OF THE TIME weird issues that appear in the middle of long operations inconsistently. The hardware involved never matters, Mac, Windows, cheap hub, fancy hub.....all TRASH
- skunkworker 4y agoIf you have TB3 and a thunderbolt dock you can get much more consistent results. I’ve been using a caldigit TS3 for almost 3 years now on a 2019 MBP with little to no issues, it remembers my monitors, I have a dac running out and lots of ports. Thunderbolt > USB-C any day.
- sgjohnson 4y agoThunderbolt = $$$$, though. It’s prohibitively expensive for the average user’s use case.
- mlindner 4y agoToo late, European law has mandated it's use, so now it's never going away. This will be something we can blame Europe for long into the future.
- blackbear_ 4y agoI don't understand this line of thinking. The purpose of those regulations is to reduce e-waste. How is the EU's fault if some companies produce cheap shit that doesn't work very well? And do you really think things would get better without those rules?