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knughit on Feb 2, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bad USB-C cable destroys laptop

A world with smart cables is a dumb world. I want smart devices/adaptors and cheap dumb cables.

wtallis on Feb 3, 2016 | [–]

USB cables aren't smart cables by any stretch of the imagination—not when we've got standards like Thunderbolt. A single resistor is not unreasonable complexity on top of the requirements to get the pinout correct.

jethro_tell on Feb 3, 2016 | [–]

Like dumb parallel port cables? or db29? The good days amirite?

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