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USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We are way past it being just a power thing though. USB-C is effectively the standard wired general purpose data bus these days. It's slowly cannibalizing HDMI and DP as well (via thunderbolt), in addition to power cords.

[–] cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is so dumb that HDMI or DisplayPort over USB-C is called “alt mode”

The USB Consortium are the only group worse at naming things than Microsoft.

[–] averyfalken@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

The worst parr is it used to be good naming scheme. After 3. They went back ended the meaning of 3.0 and 3.1 and made it bad