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Ask HN: Does anyone else question USB-C as an “improvement”?
20 by kkielhofner | 29 comments on Hacker News.
I know it's been discussed ad nauseam over the years but USB-C has been driving me crazy: - Not knowing the capabilities of any port or device. Reminds me of the Plug and Play days: "well let's plug it in and see what happens". - Power delivery? Passthrough? Good luck finding the magical combination of supported devices, wattage, etc. Even when I thought I found the right one my laptop would occasionally end up in some weird state between discharging and charging - taking power but not acknowledging it in software and slowly discharging but not as much without power... - Display Port alt-mode. Where do I even start... Some cables mostly work but running two 4k displays reliably at 60Hz seems to be near impossible. Occasionally a display drops completely and there's some sort of strange reboot/shut down/kill power to everything combination I haven't quite figured out yet. They randomly drop from 60Hz to 30Hz or don't initialize at 60Hz. Then some cables don't support DPMS, DDC, who knows what else. It seems that with high speed (10gbit or so from what I recall) via USB A, extremely capable HDMI, and dedicated charging ports prior to USB-C that was the epitome of connectivity, function, and reliability. Initially I attributed all of this to the inevitable quirks of any new technology but after several years it seems as though these issues (and more) may never get sorted out. What am I missing?