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[-] MostlyGibberish@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

I bought a high quality USB C charger with a couple nice cables to keep plugged in in my living room. I use it to charge my phone, my girlfriend's phone, my tablet, my laptop, my Switch, and my vape pen. I never have to go looking for another charger and it charges all of those things at a very acceptable rate. I'd qualify that as a game changer.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

I despise micro-USB with a passion. Even more than mini-USB. It is so flimsy, it's always been the first thing to die on my wireless devices, including my older phones.

If a device charges through USB, I consider not having USB-C to be a deal breaker. Right now I'm waiting for a USB-C socket breakout panel because I want to convert my Xbox One controller from micro to C.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I like it, but not enough stuff uses it yet to be a true game changer. I still have to keep multiples of different types of cables to charge everything.

[-] _bcron_@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Not much of a game changer for me. I have a couple portable battery bricks that use micro USB to charge, so I just plugged lightning and USB C adapters in those ports and now lug around lightning and USB C cables as opposed to lightning and micro.

These 'between cycle' points of time where half the old stuff still has old ports, adapters help for me

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 5 days ago

The game changer part is less e waste

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

I like it, I was a USB-micro B cable guy for almost all my electronics. It was a yearlong transition for me to phase it out in favour of USBC, but it was just with upgrading electronics, not because I wanted to ditch the cable format specifically.

Charging and data transfer aspects weren't much of my concern, until I learned about USB-PD and video via USB, that was pretty cool. I like the reversible connector, too many times I jammed the cable in the port the wrong way.

a bit, reversable charging.

[-] lnxtx@feddit.nl 1 points 5 days ago

But how to select "the charger" and "the load"?

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[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

How do you know if the cable is a C type of USB?

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

The letters correspond to the physical connector. The rectangle one everyone knows is A, B is the square connector usually used with printers and other accessories. C is a small, oval connector, and the first one that can be plugged in “upside down” because it’s symmetrical.

C is now common on phones and tablets and other smaller devices. If the connector is ovalish but even smaller and weirdly shaped, that’s one of the mini/micro USB variants and you need to find the right cable to match.

(If you have a USB C cable and i won’t fit into the oval connector because it’s too big, that’s Lightning made by Apple before C existed and is only found on their devices. You have to get a cable with Lightning on at least one end.)

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago
[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

You look at the ends that plug into stuff

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[-] cynar@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

https://youtu.be/wGKxWatPkd0

Summer up how I feel about usb C now.

[-] BlackOrchid@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I regularly, accidentally, grab a USB-C>USB-C cable instead of USB-A>USB-C. And then I think by myself, I've never had this many cables that don't fit.

Good thing is, I have plenty of USB-C cables of different lengths, most of which I don't know the origin. At least they're in a box in my home and not in a landfill.

[-] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 1 points 5 days ago

My house has always lagged behind in the newest tech for one reason or another. Usually it's because I end up adopting everyone's old electronics, but sometimes it's because we have old devices for kids.

USB C is better for me because I'm no longer fumbling to connect the charger late at night. I also appreciate that the charger works for other devices, but that was common for me with micro USB. There were also devices I had that took mini USB.

Now most of the different mini USB devices are gone, but I still have devices that need micro USB. Right not, that's my third party Xbox controllers I inherited and use for PC games. Tandem's T-slim insulin pump was also behind when we got them. Charging the pumps or using the controllers now means we are scrambling for an "old charger."

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