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@fabio@manganiello.eu

2026-03-15 11:02 UTC

@leeloo@c.im you can’t really standardize voltage/current specifications for a connector that can power everything from earbuds chargers to beefy laptops, and everything in between. And of course I know how frustrating it is to plug a low-power USB-C supply to a Macbook just to realize that it doesn’t work, or plug the USB-C cable of a Macbook charger to a small gadget just to realize that it starts overheating after a few seconds. But I compare that to what we use to have before (a proliferation of barrel connectors of different shapes and sizes that made it impossible for me to charge two laptops from the same manufacturer produced just a couple of years apart by using the same charger, Thunberbolt in a few variants, 3-4 USB connectors types, game consoles coming up with their own proprietary connector shapes, phones that couldn’t exchange chargers…), and I think that this regulation has already gone a long way fixing the mess of entangled wires.

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  • @leeloo@c.im 2026-03-15 16:14

    @fabio@manganiello.eu And I maintain the old ones were easier to tell apart, making it easier to avoid those mistakes.

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