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1. Eliza The Gender Destroyer (elizafox@mst3k.interlinked.me)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2018 06:33:40 UTC Eliza The Gender Destroyer

   The charging standard is a pile of fuck, rarely obeyed, and is really stupid actually. I think USB-C only partially solves the problem... dodgy Chinese chargers designed for MacBooks will probably happily send 20v to your phone and brick it.

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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2018 06:40:05 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @elizafox As evidenced by the excellent and thorough (but seems to have gone on hiatus since half a year back) Google Plus blog-ish by Google's USB-C champion Benson Leung:
     
     https://plus.google.com/collection/s0Inv
     
     Looots of frying, bricking, broken cables and chargers out there.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2018 06:48:35 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • Hallå Kitteh
     Don't you just love it when a market segment is so full of garbage that reviews contain lines like:
     
     > All the wires are here on this one
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 01:24:39 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • Tomas SA2TMS
     @tomas Yeah, on USB-B that was kind of normal. But you can't mark those with the USB logo etc.
     
     On USB-C everything is complicated and even for charging you want to negotiate over data channels and stuff.
     
     And you still definitely shouldn't sell something as USB 3.1 USB-C if it doesn't have all wires.