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  • Technically the Wii U was the most powerful console at the time it released.

    But only because it released towards then end of the Xbox 360 / PS3 lifecycle, so it was a very short time period until it was once again severely underpowered compared to Xbox any Playstation

  • It uses the government ID, which has a built in NFC chip. You can use a phone in combination with your ID and it's pin to verify your age online. The ID scanner app will tell you which parameters the website requests from your ID, and its possible to only request the birthdate.

    I don't like the system, but it is truly anonymous

  • There are technical reasons for why so many PD profiles exist.

    In fact they were not enough, which is why the USB Standard was extended with the "PPS" extension recently, which let's the attached device freely choose a voltage between 3V and 21V in steps of 20mv, and more importantly it let's the device freely change this voltage without interrupting the charge process. This change makes it possible for devices to bypass their own but in charging electronics and just directly forward the voltage coming from the charger to the device, improving efficiency and significantly decreasing how much the device hears up during charging

    Sadly PPS is not found on many devices or chargers yet, and makes the already complicated USB C charging situation even more complicated for consumers

  • No, that's not the reason at all. The actual reason is a phenomenon called "loop impedance", which increases exponentially with each additional plug connection you chain together, regardless of the wire guage and distance of the extension

    Too high loop impedance can cause your RCD to no longer trigger if you accidentally touch an exposed live connection, which is a major electrocution risk

  • Yes, and such cables already exist, like this splitter cable:

    https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0CRZ6JJ6D (not an affiliate link)

    It's not an extension cable, but it does exactly what you are suggesting. It gets the available PD profiles from the charger and then intelligently negotiates a profile that will work best to split the power to the 2 devices connected to it. The charger thinks it's just connected to 1 device, and the connected devices think they are directly connected to a charger.

    Doing the same for with a USB C extension would be trivial, but it's probably hard to market such a cable when passive USB c extension cables are available at a fraction of the cost, even if those aren't compliant to the USB standard

  • Correct, except for your example. Firstly, 120 watt USB c cables don't exist, only 60w, 100w, 140w and 240w. And only plugging in a 100w or higher cable into a 60w extension would be dangerous, since it would allow drawing 5 amps on a cable over an extension only designed for 3 amps. However, as soon as your extension is rated for 100w it is completely safe to use with any USB c cable, even those rated for 240w, as those only operate at a higher voltage but still only allow 5 amps max.

    I have also never seen an USB C extension cable rated for less than 100w, so this is kind of a moot point. If 60w usb c extensions exist somewhere, they would indeed be dangerous, but I have never come across one

  • If you are from Germany out of all places you should understand why one would get a device from a carrier. The price difference is insane and in Germany the devices don't come with a Sim lock or carrier specific firmware