USB-C PD: New Technology Done Right
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There is a tendency as we get older, to retreat into an instinctive suspicion of anything new or associated with young people. All of us will know older people who have fallen down this rabbit hole…

I wanted to share this opinion on Hackaday about a topic that is the usefulness of a something that has become ubiquitous relatively fast.

This techonolgyy has a lot of potential, what do you think?

  • solrize@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I wouldn’t say usb pd is one standard. There is a combinatorial explosion of devices and cables with different voltage support, current capacity, presence or absence of E-mark and of Thunderbird, the famous incident where a bad cable blew up Benson Huang’s laptop, etc. If you intersect down to the universal standard in the middle, it’s just plain 5 volts like before.

    And are really going to push 240W through that teeny connector and not have any melt?