I'm surrounded by USB-A, B and C cables now.When is USB-D finally getting here?
>>108634772You don't want another standard
When they learn that hermaphroditic connectors should have been standard from the start.
>>108634772when they make robots with vaginas. you stick your usb-dick in the vagina. and that's how you connect your brain chip to the robot
>USBNeither universal, nor serial, nor a bus.
>>108634772Not funny
what was the point of going any further than A in the first place seems to work fine to this day I can't recall a single time any of my cables had an issue in the A part either
>>108636600I don't think you understand the gravy of the situation
>>108634772usb-Deez nuts haha got em
>>108636095>>108636600the usb model is host and device, the work load is not shared equally, the host does most of the work which allows you to have usb mouse keyboard etc with very little extra processing power to handle the device side comms.thats why usb a and b were necessary, if everything was usb a you would have people plugging a keyboard into a printer and wondering why it didn't work.its not the 90s anymore and everything has a 500 core 8gb government spy chip in it anyway so running usb host is a piece of piss if not just in the hardware as a peripheral anyway. so plugging a usbc keyboard into a usbc printer there is no reason it shouldn't just accept keystrokes as data to print the same as when you telnet port 9001 when you were a kid at school messing with the big a3 printer in graphic comms
>>108636095>hermaphroditic connectorsMight work fine with data, but not for power. You do not want to give end user imbeciles a 2 way 120/220V connector.
>>108636919That's a gay cable, not a hermaphrodite cable.Hermaphrodite means the "plug" and "socket" are the same.
>>108634772Even if they changed the connector it would probably still be called "C" something, like "mini C" or "micro C".Just like you have "B", "mini B" and "micro B".Personally I would rather have a larger C variant that's harder to accidentally unplug though, for use at the back of desktop PC's and other static devices.
I find it fucking weird that by using one of these I can have an external SSD running faster than the internal one on a mac mini, and I can use another one of these to connect it to a 1440p display at 240hz with HDR and VRR working, when at the same time I have lots of these identical cables that cannot fucking transfer data reliably. It's the anti-standard.
>>108636962Both ends go into female sockets retard how can it be gay? They're the straigthest cables possible
>>108636962>That's a gay cable, not a hermaphrodite cable.the effect is the same, it would allow you to connect two outlets together directly
>>108637024Yeah with ports it's even crazier. It can be:>power output only, 5v, 9v, 12v, 20v, negotiated on 5 different protocols>power input only, either "usb2" 5v (this one is annoying cause wont work with some c-c cables/supplies) or 5v, 9v, 12v, 20v, negotiated on 5 different protocols>power input/output negotiated>usb2 data host/slave (power 0.5-2A)>usb3, 3.1, 3.2 data>Thunderbolt data (with or without display out)>Displayport (with no thunderbolt)>Analog audio out>>108637051>>108636919Thats what usb-c does with power and it's perfectly fine because it negotiates power unlike your wall outlet.
>>108637093It's very annoying, because I have an USB-C to USB-C cable which would be perfect if it wasn't only good for fast charging. It came with a TS101 soldering iron and it's an anti-kink cable, it's smooth as fucking silk, you can bend it around in any way you want, it just drops over the desk and it retains no form, it doesn't get in the way. I have like 40 of these damn cables and none of them are like this. I don't know where to get one of these fuckers. Meanwhile I get a 40gbps thunderbolt cable and this shit I'm actually afraid of bending, almost like I'm dealing with some ethernet cable here.
>>108634772USB-C will probably just continue to be improved for another decade, then they will come out with Micro-C or Mini-C, then we will get to the point that even 500GBps is considered slow once the average mobile game is 700 Terabytes in size.They will then come out with a USB type-D interface, and it will probably just be stupid.
>>108637269You may think im joking, but in the late 90's, most triple-A video games were under 100mb. Now the average video game is 30 or 40 gigabytes, if not more. In another 20 years, we will have games that require 100 Terabytes of storage to install.
>>108637003What about USB3.2 over USB-B or even USB4 Version 2.0 over USB-B? The chunky size is better for semi-permanent connections and likely would be better for power delivery too.
>>108637269>500GBps is considered slow>>108637287>Now the average video game is 30 or 40 gigabytes, if not more. In another 20 years, we will have It's ~100GB for AAA-tier games today anon.>games that require 100 Terabytes of storageThey won't. improvements have slowed down massively. All of that progress was long ago now.PS4 storage was 500GB, PS5 is 1TB, PS6 it's doubtful if they can afford 2TB.But assuming we continue to see a doubling every 5 years like we have in the last 10 years, in 20 years we can expect 1.6TB games.
>>108636645>if everything was usb a you would have people plugging a keyboard into a printer and wondering why it didn't work.I've never seen that sort of thing happen with TRS to TRS nor USB-C to USB-C. I'm sure it happens but I wonder if it truly warranted the one-way design for the older standards. It's still possible to devise a standard with host and device having receptacles that differ slightly in a way that would both physically accept a regular cable with only a one-way connection but also accept a counterpart hermaphroditic cable.>>108636919>>108637093That would be a wrong way to design a power cable with identical connectors. This hermaphroditic SAE connector has both neg and pos as female-male which I guess is safe enough for 12V.
>>108638103*accept a counterpart cable with identical connectors (which may also be hermaphroditic)
>>108638103Although that design would allow two power sources to be wired in parallel by anyone which is bad. They can be designed two-way without that problem.
>>108634820>My manager>theyfaggot
>>108638234Just mandate that power supplies are protected. A simple diode on the power output is enough to avoid basically any issue since it's DC. That's a normal part of any connector specification.
>>108636373definitely serial fa.m
