"I'll just use my laptop charger to charge my Xbox controller" would have been a baffling sentence in 2005
"I'll just use my laptop charger to charge my Xbox controller" would have been a baffling sentence in 2005
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I took my phone charger on a business trip instead of the laptop's power brick since is actually rated for a higher power draw while being a quarter the size. Worked perfectly well.
Those GaN chargers are ridiculously good.
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It still takes me a second, my laptop charger absolutely could not charge an Xbox controller. Then I remember a lot of newer efficient ones charge USB C.
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I charged my frisbee with my couch
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The other way around is way weirder. "I forgot my laptop charge, but I have my phone charger, so that works!"
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Bro USBC is soo good. One cable to rule them all.
Itβs actually terrible if you pay attention to the details. USB c only really describes the connector but thereβs no way to tell specs and there is a wild variety of specs out there. I have USB-C cables that have 240w charging capacity but 500mb of data transfer, then I have another one that can do high speed data transfers but charges slowly (I forget the actual specs). Then you have the cheap devices with USB C input that charge at USB A speeds and wonβt work with high charging speed cables. But the best thing about USB-C is that they all look the same so you canβt tell which specs it has by looking at it unless the manufacturer labels them somewhere (unless you deliberately buy them with different looks like I do so I can easily tell them apart. )
The only good USB C I/o is thunderbolt because there is an actual standard of data and energy transfer.
Look, I get your point about the confusing cables, but still, having universal charging is so useful.
I havent had a single issue with usb-c so far. Just dont buy cheapo uncertified garbage and you wont have any issues either. Ofcourse they come in different levels but what they can do will always be written on the box. If i just want a charging cable i dont wanna have to spend 30β¬ on a USB4 compatible cable, so the segmentation is good.
Its actually pretty good once u understand the standards. So the way the cable works is it establishes communication between the devices and negotiates protocol. So u have USBC power delivery that negotiates power hence why my 100w laptop charger can charge everything from my phone to my vape. Then u have the USB levels so usb1 usb2 usb3 usbcss (I can't remember them cos they keep changing them but u got different data levels) that are speeds.