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I would argue those hubs do not work

• hiatus 3y ago
  It's the same with usb-c extension cords. Our extension cords now need microcontrollers in them, what a time to be alive.
  • mananaysiempre 3y ago
    Given those microcontrollers are 0.05 USD at worst, meh, though I acknowledge it sounds a bit crazy if you don’t recognize how cheap micros can be nowadays. Laptop chargers have used similar schemes (perhaps with bare serial EEPROMs instead of MCUs) since forever, FWIW.
    • hiatus 3y ago
      The absurdity to me is not the cost, but the complexity. Our (or at least my own) intuition of an extension cord is as a dumb cord just relaying signals, but they are more complex than that, now.