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No it was 6 months old and she doesn't care about it or phones. She thought it was broken. I charged it with my powerbank, an anker PD one and she ordered a pro
by thimp 3y ago
No it was 6 months old and she doesn't care about it or phones. She thought it was broken. I charged it with my powerbank, an anker PD one and she ordered a proper charger off amazon. I gave her my spare USB-C cable. It was seen as a potential financial inconvenience having to do anything about it as well.
Literally many people do not care enough to understand it. It's just a modern necessity, a tool.
- illumin8 3y agoThis is my wife. She purchased a bunch of USB-A to USB-c cables off Amazon and wonders why her laptop runs out of power while plugged in - it's because the laptop needs 25-30 watts and those cables can only put out 5 watts because they're limited by the USB-A port. USB-c PD is such a dumpster fire of a standard. Even with supposedly high end cables like Anker you often can't charge a Macbook Pro faster than it can drain it's own battery under load. We can't expect normal people to understand why there are a dozen different cable types that all have the same tip but charge at vastly different rates...
- seba_dos1 3y agoThere are no USB cables that are limited to 5W, and standard non-PD USB-A ports can give you up to 15W. The only case where you may need a different (non-passive, "e-marked") cable is when going above 60W (3A).
- dhosek 3y agoI recently discovered that I can use my iPad and MacBook charging brick to test PD of a usb cable. If it’s low wattage, the charging brick will not provide any power to the iPad. High wattage and it will.
- Dylan16807 3y agoThe charging speed of USB-C cables (C on both ends) is pretty much just the slow ones and the fast ones, and "slow" is 60 watts.
- throwaway2990 3y agoNo.
- Dylan16807 3y agoYes. Every conforming cable supports 3 amps and 20 volts. If you think something's incorrect with that, be specific. But the spec is pretty clear. The exact details of the faster cables are murky because there's old and new versions of that section of the spec, but very few devices use enough power to care about that.
- oarsinsync 3y ago> Every conforming cable The problem is all the non-conforming cables that people have, that look exactly the same as conforming cables.
- geoelectric 3y agoExcept they were responding to a comment criticizing USB-C PD as a standard. Non-standard cables are irrelevant to that discussion.
- oarsinsync 3y ago> We can't expect normal people to understand why there are a dozen different cable types that all have the same tip but charge at vastly different rates Is the part of the GP comment I was responding to. The connectors form part of the standard. There’s no way to identify a standards-conforming cable from a non-standards-conforming cable by looking at it. They all look the same.
- seba_dos1 3y agoThis applies to any kind of cable. How can you tell that a HDMI cable isn't empty inside, missing all its wires? It looks the same!
- diffeomorphism 3y agoIt is a bit curious that you immediately jump to PD being a dumpster fire instead of the much more immediate "apple is a dumpster fire and incompatible just to be obnoxious".
- literalAardvark 3y agoThat's true of all things that don't respect standards, not a PD issue. If you buy a wheel and it's not up to spec it'll crack. If you buy a power cable and it has a type-c on one end and a 110/220v plug on the other, that's not going to work well either. Buy stuff that's up to spec, and it'll be fine.
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