• toofpic@lemmy.world
    1 month

    All devices now have chips that do a handshake with the charger, exchanging information about supported standards and charging using the best common option. So I charge my prohe with a 90W laptop charger, even when it is unable to use the whole wattage

  • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
    30 days

    I spent two hours today explaining the difference between USBC plugs meaning USB 3 — USB 3.1, USB 3.2, and thunderbolt 4,and the differences between all of that, and how they would affect the performance when my buddy was shopping for an external drive bay enclosure. (You bought a server with TB4 ports, get that TB4 enclosure! Those drives are set up in parallel, so let’s eat that speed!)

    I literally had to explain the differences to him for two hours. Not because he was stupid, but because it’s absurdly complicated.

  • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
    1 month

    Wait… when did you ever need to turn off your PC before you can unplug your mouse or keyboard? Did people genuinely used to need to do this? When? Why?

  • faceula@lemmy.world
    29 days

    Every interaction I’ve ever had with display port has resulted in me rage quitting. Did it ever do anything?

      • daggermoon@piefed.worldEnglish
        30 days

        It has USB-B, toslink, and coax. Coax and toslink can’t be used simultaneously. I use USB to connect to my PC and I have an HDMI audio extractor pass through thingey that has toslink so I can use my PS5 with my DAC.