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0 pointsarghwhat6y ago0 comments

You were talking about how many combinations there were of cables, which is always solvable by choosing the good cables. There is no cable type for defective devices, so that does not change anything.

What the rPI did would be akin to a micro-USB device using data pins for power. Such device would be defective, and not "another type" of micro-USB.

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KirinDave6y ago· 1 in thread

The mistake they made is really easy to make accidentally. The USB-C spec is complicated and cables aren't marked. Many folks still don't know there are multiple types of cables.

arghwhatOP6y ago

To be honest, the complicated parts are not where the mistakes are made. Routing 40Gb/s is hard. Placing one or two resistors is not.

But agreed that marking could be better—maybe marking lower cables as "charge" cable somehow. At least Thunderbolt cables are distinctly marked, and will become merged in USB4.

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