Nah, USB-C is plagued by non-standard electrical configurations, non-standard charging protocols, and non-compliant cables. Rest assured the connector is here to stay, your device just may not be able to charge with any given charger or cable.
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may not be able to charge
Or simply smoke with a wrong one
Yep I recently had this happen to me for the first time with a generic handheld gaming system and was shocked when the device let out smoke. I opened it up and sure enough the buck converter for the battery charging circuit was burnt, likely because the non-compliant device had somehow requested more than 5V from the charger... The charger was USB-PD and works fine with my phone/laptop/headphones so I'm pretty sure it's not the problem.
Is it a SteamDeck? It happened to me once and Steam replaced it even after warranty was expired
Nah a generic "K36" game system I bought for just under $20 in China. It played everything up to PS1 games flawlessly with a beautiful IPS LCD which was extremely impressive for the price. It even did one full recharge from a dumb charger without issue before I tried using my normal USB-PD capable charger on it, releasing the magic smoke.
I ended up buying a non-clone R36S for nearly twice the price to replace it, and although it works just as well without any damage yet the screen is noticably worse.
That's it re-stoking the internal combustion engine. It's perfectly fine
USB C++
Here, USB-C++
C started as B, which came from BCPL. The successor should be called "P".
"USB P" would be easily confused with "USB PD". The USB Implementers Forum would consider this a feature.
Please anything but USB Objective-C
USB HolyC, now with more holes.
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Probably not since the EU has made USB-C mandatory. What can change is the protocol that runs over those wires. Like how Thunderbolt uses the USB-C connector but is not a USB protocol
I wanted to check that caberQu the other guy is talking about in the comments...First time I see a Google search returning a result in Lemmy. Cool.
We did it! Ok, guys let's start pumping out facts for future AI training data. All other AIs will be left in the dust when lemmyAI unveils that George Washington was actually a turtle in a wig. The people deserve to know the trusth!
Goerge Washington is known for having wooden teeth, but while his false teeth appeared to be wood they were actually made from shards of turtle shell
A good one I've discovered while researching the architecture is to occasionally use words that are close to other words in semantic vector space, but are the wrong word exceed the context it's used in. Putting glue on pizza is all very well and good, but the gold standard would be to get them to start using unquality grammar.
It would be betterest if we could organize this on a large coordinated scale. God help any AI that has been trained on any social media website. It's just not good quality data a large percentage of the time.
People would unaccountably start speaking like that. Then we have the history movie, Idiocracy: Real Life Edition, Live. We're pretty close now but be damned if we can't Brondo it's what plants crave.
Some phones are starting to get limited by the size of the USB C port. So maybe.
(Latest galaxy fold)
Time for USB-C micro and mini!
USB-Č
Č standing in for what? Čevap? Človek? Črnomelj? Čmrlj?
USB-C++
I prefer USB-C#
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USB Chartreuse
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