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🆕 blog! “Gadget Review: Benfei USB-C Video Capture”
★★★★★
Want to capture video from your phone or console? You could just point a camera at the screen, but a more sensible way to do it is to capture the video directly via USB-C.
The good folks at Benfei have sent me another gadget to review! This is a USB-C Video/Audio capture dongle. Plug one end into a…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/gadget-review-benfei-usb-c-video-capture/
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#gadget #linux #review #usb-c #video
Debugging BeagleBoard USB boot with a sniffer: fixing omap_loader on modern PCs
#HackerNews #Debugging #BeagleBoard #USB #omap_loader #sniffer #modernPCs
🆕 blog! “Review: BENFEI Wireless USB C to HDMI”
★★★★⯪
The good folks at Benfei have sent me another gadget to play about with. This one comes in two parts. The first plugs into an screen's HDMI port, the second beams video from your device's USB-C port across the airwaves. Here's what it looks like:
But how does it perform? Plug the HDMI into your TV and its USB-A…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/review-benfei-wireless-usb-c-to-hdmi/
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#gadget #hdmi #review #usb-c
Big news for #raspberrypi users! Raspberry Pi 5 now has upstream #UBoot support, thanks to #SUSE’s Hardware Enablement team. Boot #openSUSE Tumbleweed or #MicroOS with ease; once PCIe support lands, #USB boot will just work. https://news.opensuse.org/2025/11/04/raspberrypi5-opensuse/
Big news for #raspberrypi users! Raspberry Pi 5 now has upstream #UBoot support, thanks to #SUSE’s Hardware Enablement team. Boot #openSUSE Tumbleweed or #MicroOS with ease; once PCIe support lands, #USB boot will just work. https://news.opensuse.org/2025/11/04/raspberrypi5-opensuse/
LA SCUOLA NON SI ARRUOLA – MOBILITAZIONE 4 NOVEMBRE https://poterealpopolo.org/la-scuola-non-si-arruola-mobilitazione-4-novembre/ #Tavoloscuolauniversitaricerca #militarizzazione #Tavolitematici #repressione #insegnanti #valditara #censura #cestes #scuola #pace #usb
Ventoy: Create Bootable USB Drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files
https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy
#HackerNews #Ventoy #USB #Bootable #Tools #ISO #EFI #CreateBootableUSB
heise+ | Fünf günstige Office-Notebooks mit USB4 im Test
USB-C-Buchsen mit rasantem USB4/Thunderbolt 4 findet man schon in Notebooks unter 700 Euro. Wir testen fünf solche 16-Zöller mit verschiedenen Prozessoren.
heise+ | Fünf günstige Office-Notebooks mit USB4 im Test
USB-C-Buchsen mit rasantem USB4/Thunderbolt 4 findet man schon in Notebooks unter 700 Euro. Wir testen fünf solche 16-Zöller mit verschiedenen Prozessoren.
#xkcd's 15th "standard" in a nutshell... #USBC is just another acronym for PITA...
In case you're wondering
- BC 1.2 ( #USB Battery Charging) is USB-Implementers Forum's basic charging protocol from 2010
- PE+ = PumpExpress Plus, Mediatek's exotic own charging protocol
I would test VOOC/Dash detection on my old OP charger but I don't have dash cables anymore... Without the right cable¹, the charger acts like a BC 1.2 5V 1.5A/2.4A charger
Reminder that #USB is, and always was, a bad design; as usual for Intel. We had #Firewire, a true bus, and not the worst option of many, polling, like USB. We could have had everything USB-C offers now -- reversible plugs, power-negotiation, multi-protocol -- with Firewire decades ago if USB hadn't taken over. Firewire even had Ethernet-over-Firewire, at 400MBps, fifteen years before Thunderbolt would do the same.
Firewire didn't need a different plug for the computer-side and for the device-side (USB-A & USB-B) because it was a true bus. You could hook any two devices together via a normal Firewire cable and you'd get instant two-way communication. This is how the PS2 did link-play. USB pushed the workload on to the computer. USB-C solves the "who is the host and who is the client?" problem by putting a tiny *computer* into the cable, that's how insane USB has become.
Firewire has been gone so long now that most #Apple #Mac users probably don't even know that you could plug a Mac into another computer via Firewire, power it on holding T and the internal disk drive would appear *as an external HDD* to the other computer.
Reminder that #USB is, and always was, a bad design; as usual for Intel. We had #Firewire, a true bus, and not the worst option of many, polling, like USB. We could have had everything USB-C offers now -- reversible plugs, power-negotiation, multi-protocol -- with Firewire decades ago if USB hadn't taken over. Firewire even had Ethernet-over-Firewire, at 400MBps, fifteen years before Thunderbolt would do the same.
Firewire didn't need a different plug for the computer-side and for the device-side (USB-A & USB-B) because it was a true bus. You could hook any two devices together via a normal Firewire cable and you'd get instant two-way communication. This is how the PS2 did link-play. USB pushed the workload on to the computer. USB-C solves the "who is the host and who is the client?" problem by putting a tiny *computer* into the cable, that's how insane USB has become.
Firewire has been gone so long now that most #Apple #Mac users probably don't even know that you could plug a Mac into another computer via Firewire, power it on holding T and the internal disk drive would appear *as an external HDD* to the other computer.
Call for testing: USB webcams https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250808083341 #openbsd #usb #webcams #testing #snapshot #freesoftware #libresoftware
Call for testing: USB webcams https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250808083341 #openbsd #usb #webcams #testing #snapshot #freesoftware #libresoftware
🆕 blog! “Why don't smart watches use USB-C to recharge?”
It looks like the new Google's Pixel 4 watch comes with yet another incompatible change in charging technology. This is a ridiculous situation.
The original Pixel Watch used one type of wireless charging. Then the Pixel Watch 2 & 3 removed wireless charging and swapped to a different charging mechanism. And…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/why-dont-smart-watches-use-usb-c-to-recharge/
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#gadget #usb-c #watch
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