Maybe belongs in /c/extremelypopularthoughts

  • Otter@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I think the annoyance comes from not having that many ports to begin with. If I had a whole bunch of ports, it wouldn’t matter as much if I had to snap on a usb-c adapter to all the cables.

    What is annoying is having to unplug something i need so I can plug in a flash drive

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      1 year ago

      Why not using small usbc splitter? Like 7 in 1

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      The splitter or hub gives you 3 usbs, usbc, hdmi, Ethernet, sd card reader and charge your device.

      Similar to laptop docks for 1/10th of the price.

      check it out

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          Instead of having many dongles just buy a splitter and that’s it.

          It’ll have 3 usbs, usbc, hdmi, Ethernet, sd card reader and power pass through.

          Similar to laptop docks for 1/10th of the price.

          Check it out link

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        1 year ago

        Because they heat very easily, suffer throttleneck problems (Ethernet+HDMI+copytoUSB = sudden drop in Ethernet)

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          yeah i have a few of them and they all get extremely hot, plus they look ugly as hell. usually a super short cord so right where my mouse would be is a blazing hot ugly box with a bunch of cables and junk sticking out. and if you accidentally jiggle it or move the laptop too much the whole thing blanks out for a second interrupting work flow.

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          By splitter I mean small docking station. I use it daily and never had issues. I plug a mouse, hdmi, and Ethernet cable as well as power pass through.

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          1 year ago

          Some do, others don’t. It helps to check out reviews and ask around before buying.

    • Kelsenellenelvial@lemmy.ca
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      Some of both. I remember a time where it felt like every time I got a new computer it had some different ports because they kept evolving. Modem/Ethernet, firewire 400/800, keyboard/mouse/USB, VGA/DVI/Displsyport(and mini versions of some). Sure, my old computer might have had a lot of different ports, but I might never have used some of them. For something like a laptop, I think 2x USB-C on each side is good for most, plus add hubbing to larger peripherals like HDD enclosures and displays and docks wouldn’t have to be so popular.

      I feel like we’re just in the middle of a good transition period. Few years from now almost everything that can will be USB-C, we’re really just waiting out the replacement of all the existing devices and their incompatible ports.

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    Just get 1 dongle that you have everything plugged into. Then you only need to plug your laptop into 1 thing. Bam. Super convenient.

  • TeckFire@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What’s more convenient is everything using the same connector, but who knows when/if that will ever come about…

  • CoderKat@lemm.ee
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    You can get laptop “hubs” which usually have a few USB ports, a video connector or two (often HDMI and/or DisplayPort), ethernet, and some will function as a power cable, too (one of mine does and one doesn’t).

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    I remember dongle life, they popped up in the very late 90’s and survived until like 2008ish. They sucked then, and they really suck now. And yes, I still think having an all in one USB “dongle” is worse than having built in functionality.

    then again, I have a framework, so it’s kinda moot lol.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t understand why there’s no splitter modules for the framework. I’m sure it’s possible to put 2 USB C ports into 1 module

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    If you’re referring to connecting a computer to the things you mentioned, just get a laptop docking station and you’ll be just fine.

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    I’m confused, why do you need audio and video USBs? I’m not even sure what’s meant by that like your computer has no audio without the Dingle?

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    If you don’t have a dongle, the dongle is basically just hidden inside (a chip on the main board or an extension card). Being able to add dongles is a very easy way to quickly add things like wifi. Otherwise you’d have to open the PC and mount a card and the number of slots inside is also limited. So yeah, builtin is good, but also no, dongles can be better. It’s just a different option.

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      I guess you could use the same argument to say you’re buying less when you buy your laptop. It’s just arbitrary data I/O through USB with the software level interpreting it. They don’t have to ship a DAC or wifi radio (if they actually omitted that) or… whatever you call the component that’s part of a GPU that converts to HDMI - instead they offload that to the dongle or peripheral. In effect your device is just slowly being whittled down to a processor to USB bridge.

      The headphone and USB ones are the ones I hate the most. My “flagship” phone doesn’t work with any of my ~15 pairs of headphones (mostly earbuds but a few actually nice ones) without an adapter. Booting up a laptop into a nix OS that doesn’t have wpa_supplicant etc. installed, no ethernet dongle or ethernet port, that’s about to be annoying.

      This is more about laptops/phones than desktops btw. Normal sized desktops usually still ship with every port, plus one or two USB-C’s these days.

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        Booting up a laptop … that doesn’t have wpa_supplicant etc

        If you french fry when you pizza you’re gonna have a bad time.

        Seriously though, if you want to use wifi without some sort of supplicant you’ve fucked up.

        • dx1@lemmy.worldOP
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          You can put it on, but at that point you’re with reinstalling the system or moving packages over on a thumb drive. Huge pain.

    • 🅿🅸🆇🅴🅻@lemmy.world
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      I think the point was universal dongle with universal BLE / radio protocol. It could still have different encryption schemes and keys for each device / manufacturer by upgrading / installing drivers (so in software), but at least the radio packet protocol would be the same which would keep the hardware universal. Kind of like how smart home hubs (WiFi +/ Zigbee +/ Bluetooth +/ 433MHz / etc) work.

      But we all know how creating a new “universal” protocol goes from experience (ie USB “standards”).