USB-C is just so utterly incompetently designed I just can't even 🤦
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@OpenComputeDesign So what's the deal?
I had some few interactions with it, 99% of stuff i use is USB2, HDMI (barf, but cheap), DP.
If display stuff works seemed pretty random, with a windows laptop throwing away the screen and other devices... probably the cheap adapter or just windows? The rest seemed to work pretty well.
You said "designed", so maybe something interesting to learn? I never looked into the specs.
@admitsWrongIfProven Well, one of the most _incompetent_ aspects of USB-C is that the cables aren't just cables, they have chips in them that handle voltage negotiation, which means that a bad cable can blow up your devices if it negotiates the wrong voltage for the device.
This also, apparently, means you can't have USB-C extension cables, because even though USB-C is "reversable", the negotiation chip works in some weird way where extensions only work one way, and can blow things up the other