My entire platform for president is to make it a felony to put a USB-C connector on a device that can only charge from a USB-A power supply.
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@mattblaze I'd return the device as defective.
@mattblaze I didn’t used to think of myself as a single-issue voter, but I sure as hell am now.
@mattblaze I have something even worse. I have a Lenovo tablet that charges fine from just about any charger. I also have a dual charger that works fine with most gadgets. If the tablet is plugged into that charger, it works for a few minutes, then simply stops. Plugging the other output into something, or unplugging it, gets it going again for a while, at least sometimes. It's too erratic to easily spot any reliable pattern. Who's at fault here?
My BTech radios. C jack on the radio, plugged into my new 65w charger no chargie. tldr usb A fixed it, sfter sn6 inkling memory... MOST ANNOYING.
@tomjennings Worse - newer Btech radios fix it. So some of my (identical looking) batteries can charge with a usb-c, others can’t.
@mattblaze @tomjennings I also have this with Unilite work lights.
I don't usually travel with any USB-A chargers but I just use a USB-C to A adaptor and back to C, which seems to work.
Yes, it's preposterous, but avoids a special cable!
@mattblaze how would you even make it so a device cares about the source plug?
@LanceJZ @mattblaze
USB-C devices can, instead of using new-fangled negotiation on the CC line to get the voltage and current they want, just have two 5.1K resistors for "legacy" connection, which gets them 5V at up to 900mA.
However, a USB device _must_ do one or the other to meet spec. Matt is talking about a device that goes _neither_, which is grossly out of spec, apparently just to save the manufacturer a fraction of a cent per unit. (Or out of stupidity.)
@mattblaze @LanceJZ
I guess maybe that's less awful than some of the other horribly noncompliant things that pretend to be USB-C, but I still don't like it.
I would like to support your candidacy, but first I need to know your position on companies that build chargers with USB-A receptacles that just output straight 12V DC. And for extra fun, the charging cable's other end is a 3.5 mm audio jack.
@DaveMWilburn If that's not already a felony, it should be
It's basically just arson with extra steps.
*sitting in my rocking chair on the porch, take a big drag on my cig*
"I'm so old I remember when USB was promised to solve all our connector problems..."
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@mattblaze oooh! oooh! I know what precise thing they left out causes that issue!
@mattblaze chuck it all and start over with usb D
Matt Blaze for Prez!
@mattblaze oh heh I have a bike light with that confusing property, too. In fact I'd go as far as to ban USB-C power delivery entirely as the specification is so hideously overcomplicated that it's trivial for implementations to have even subtler/stupider interoperability issues 😡
@mattblaze
And in your second term please fix the USB version numbers. 😉
@oneiros that’s a matter for the courts.
@mattblaze @oneiros
Zelazny's "Courts of Chaos," most likely.
@mattblaze You have my vote.
