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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • It’s been more of a pain in the arse than initially expected.

    Most motherboards (for example) only have 2-4 USB-C ports, meaning that I still need to employ A-C and C-C cables for peripherals etc.

    My main gripe is that the standard just tries to do too many things without clear delineation/markings:

    1. Is it a USB 2.0 (480Mbit), 5Gbit, 10Gbit or 20Gbit cable? Can’t really tell from the plug alone.

    2. More importantly, for charging devices: How the heck do I determine maximum wattage I can run?

    For all its faults, at least the blue colour of a USB-3.0 plug (or additional connectors for B/Micro) made it easy to differentiate !

    Now I’m eyeing up a USB Cable tester just to validate and catalogue my growing collection! 🤦🏻‍♂️