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You should not fear the FUD. There's incredibly miniscule danger. People buy shitty uncertified ultra-cheap USB cables by the millions & there's been next to no

You should not fear the FUD. There's incredibly miniscule danger. People buy shitty uncertified ultra-cheap USB cables by the millions & there's been next to no problems. Your devices will be fine. Almost all devices & chargers have quite good safety measures built in, so at worst, stuff doesn't charge. USB-C has such a loud hate-mob after it. And it's really just not bad. It really mostly is great.

CubsFan1060 4y ago
My two biggest complaints: 1). If I have 4 USBC devices, and 1 USBC port, how do I connect them? With previous versions I buy a $10 hub. There are literally zero options to accomplish this with Usbc ( if I am wrong I would love to know about it, this is actually a problem I have) 2). The cables. Some cables support certain data. Some certain power. There are no markings to give me any of this information at all.
- kemayo 4y ago
  I think you can use something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Satechi-4-Port-USB-C-Hub-Compatible/dp/B09BNXMHSL https://www.amazon.com/Satechi-4-Port-USB-C-Hub-Compatible/d... ...albeit it'll only do data, and won't let you do P/D or video. My impression is that the cheap-hub product got a lot harder to make because of how much more USB-C supports, such that you need to caveat any cheap product (as I had to there), and the products that do support all the USB-C features wind up being full dock-type hubs that start at around $70.
- mohaine 4y ago
  Have you done a google search for a usbc hub? The first result is 25$ but will solve your problem.
- scott_s 4y ago
  It’s not cheap, but I’m happy with the OWC Thunderbolt Hub: https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-thunderbolt-hub https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-thunderbolt-hub It has its own power supply. I have a USBC 14 inch monitor and a webcam plugged into the hub, and the hub plugs into my MacBook. The hub can power my external monitor, webcam and the MacBook.
lamontcg 4y ago
> Almost all devices & chargers have quite good safety measures built in Even chargers from ALLCAPS manufacturers on amazon?
- rektide 4y ago
  Most of them will be incredibly fine, not harm a fly, and offer like 2x+ more value than where we were before with charging which also had lots of no-name replacement brands & hard to get $100 OEM chargers. While being completely intercompatible. It's just absurdly epic, in my book. Pick a completely random no-name brand it and there's like 98% chance it'll do the job fine, if you want a $30 100w charger for ex. In most cases, I would not be afraid to plug it in and find out. I expect some cheap chargers indeed probably won't be able to sustain full load, but I also expect they'll shutdown fine & not harm anything. It just seems unfair to try to reach into the absolute bottom-most reaches we can find to judge, and even if we do, I think most people would be impressed & shocked how little harm is done here. But more so, there's so many perfectly fine all-caps brands that do have thousands of reviews that seem either quite legit or mostly legit. Nekteck has a 100w gan charger you absolutely can do fine with for $40. PPS and multiport capabilities abundantly available at under $50? Can we not be impressed a bit here? Making 20V 5A & not messing causing damage is not the worlds wildest problem, even if you are cutting every corner you can.
  - lamontcg 4y ago
    I've definitely bought a charger off Amazon that later shit the bed and the NAS device it was powering wouldn't boot. I wound up buying a whole new enclosure off of ebay before determining that the power supply went just slightly bad enough to make it power up but not successfully spin up the drives or whatever and boot. It didn't burn down my house, but it caused me way more hassle and economic cost than its price was worth.
    - Zetobal 4y ago
      Nas enclosure from a shitty off-brand, powersupply from a shitty off-brand. User = that usb-c standard really sucks.
eyelidlessness 4y ago
I bought a garbage USBC cable and while it didn’t fry my device, it damn near got me in several car accidents. It was faulty and continually disconnected and reconnected for no apparent reason while I was driving. This meant losing navigation at total random, even when I needed information to make turns. I have no idea why a brand new cable would behave like this but after several scary interactions on the road I stopped trusting the standard and bought a better cable.

CubsFan1060 4y ago

My two biggest complaints: 1). If I have 4 USBC devices, and 1 USBC port, how do I connect them? With previous versions I buy a $10 hub. There are literally zero options to accomplish this with Usbc ( if I am wrong I would love to know about it, this is actually a problem I have) 2). The cables. Some cables support certain data. Some certain power. There are no markings to give me any of this information at all.

kemayo 4y ago
I think you can use something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Satechi-4-Port-USB-C-Hub-Compatible/dp/B09BNXMHSL https://www.amazon.com/Satechi-4-Port-USB-C-Hub-Compatible/d... ...albeit it'll only do data, and won't let you do P/D or video. My impression is that the cheap-hub product got a lot harder to make because of how much more USB-C supports, such that you need to caveat any cheap product (as I had to there), and the products that do support all the USB-C features wind up being full dock-type hubs that start at around $70.
mohaine 4y ago
Have you done a google search for a usbc hub? The first result is 25$ but will solve your problem.
scott_s 4y ago
It’s not cheap, but I’m happy with the OWC Thunderbolt Hub: https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-thunderbolt-hub https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-thunderbolt-hub It has its own power supply. I have a USBC 14 inch monitor and a webcam plugged into the hub, and the hub plugs into my MacBook. The hub can power my external monitor, webcam and the MacBook.

lamontcg 4y ago

> Almost all devices & chargers have quite good safety measures built in Even chargers from ALLCAPS manufacturers on amazon?

rektide 4y ago
Most of them will be incredibly fine, not harm a fly, and offer like 2x+ more value than where we were before with charging which also had lots of no-name replacement brands & hard to get $100 OEM chargers. While being completely intercompatible. It's just absurdly epic, in my book. Pick a completely random no-name brand it and there's like 98% chance it'll do the job fine, if you want a $30 100w charger for ex. In most cases, I would not be afraid to plug it in and find out. I expect some cheap chargers indeed probably won't be able to sustain full load, but I also expect they'll shutdown fine & not harm anything. It just seems unfair to try to reach into the absolute bottom-most reaches we can find to judge, and even if we do, I think most people would be impressed & shocked how little harm is done here. But more so, there's so many perfectly fine all-caps brands that do have thousands of reviews that seem either quite legit or mostly legit. Nekteck has a 100w gan charger you absolutely can do fine with for $40. PPS and multiport capabilities abundantly available at under $50? Can we not be impressed a bit here? Making 20V 5A & not messing causing damage is not the worlds wildest problem, even if you are cutting every corner you can.
- lamontcg 4y ago
  I've definitely bought a charger off Amazon that later shit the bed and the NAS device it was powering wouldn't boot. I wound up buying a whole new enclosure off of ebay before determining that the power supply went just slightly bad enough to make it power up but not successfully spin up the drives or whatever and boot. It didn't burn down my house, but it caused me way more hassle and economic cost than its price was worth.
  - Zetobal 4y ago
    Nas enclosure from a shitty off-brand, powersupply from a shitty off-brand. User = that usb-c standard really sucks.

eyelidlessness 4y ago

I bought a garbage USBC cable and while it didn’t fry my device, it damn near got me in several car accidents. It was faulty and continually disconnected and reconnected for no apparent reason while I was driving. This meant losing navigation at total random, even when I needed information to make turns. I have no idea why a brand new cable would behave like this but after several scary interactions on the road I stopped trusting the standard and bought a better cable.