@ooli@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months agoUSB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversiblewww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square270fedilinkarrow-up1591arrow-down113cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.footechnews@radiation.party
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minus-square@Socsa@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish4•9 months agoWe are way past it being just a power thing though. USB-C is effectively the standard wired general purpose data bus these days. It’s slowly cannibalizing HDMI and DP as well (via thunderbolt), in addition to power cords.
minus-square@cheery_coffee@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglish6•9 months agoIs so dumb that HDMI or DisplayPort over USB-C is called “alt mode” The USB Consortium are the only group worse at naming things than Microsoft.
minus-square@averyfalken@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglish1•9 months agoThe worst parr is it used to be good naming scheme. After 3. They went back ended the meaning of 3.0 and 3.1 and made it bad
We are way past it being just a power thing though. USB-C is effectively the standard wired general purpose data bus these days. It’s slowly cannibalizing HDMI and DP as well (via thunderbolt), in addition to power cords.
Is so dumb that HDMI or DisplayPort over USB-C is called “alt mode”
The USB Consortium are the only group worse at naming things than Microsoft.
The worst parr is it used to be good naming scheme. After 3. They went back ended the meaning of 3.0 and 3.1 and made it bad