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EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force (www.france24.com)
submitted 2 months ago by minyaen@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Suck it micro USB, mini USB, and lightning! πŸͺ«πŸ”‹

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[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

On the downside, you can’t tell what the port supports by just looking at it.

[–] MycelialMass@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (3 children)

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Even with this graphic, I still don't know what they support. Is circle-20 also 20gbps? What is the speed when there's no number? Do the non-DP ones not support displays at all? And there appears to be no such thing as USB4-DP?

And good luck getting your grandmother to identify any of this over the phone. "Is it marked SS-subway diagram-20, or circle-20-subwaydiagram? Yes it's etched gray on slightly different gray, go put on your strongest glasses first, grandma."

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also, who's at reading distance from a USB port half the time? Sometimes they're on the front of a device, but they're just as often hidden behind something or in a hard-to-reach place. Monitors and PCs come to mind.

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago

It's not like they're going to change when you're not looking.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

USB4 supports DP and TB3.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

My phone doesn't have any kind of marking anywhere on it so I'm guessing it's USB DP

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Googling for it, my phone (pixel 9 pro fold) has USB 3.2, so it shouldn't be able to drive a DP display

[–] szemy@lemmy.one 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Was wondering about thunderbolt. Found this, which I interpret as

usb 4 40 = thunderbolt 4

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

Wow what a marketing ~~scum~~ trick to show all compatible older generations as separate products