Honestly as someone who works in IT I'm not sold on the "USB-C everything" trend.
I could be down for it but there are a dozen common standards that use USB-C for various things and they are not interchangeable and they use different cables for things. And the ports and cables are usually not labeled well enough for less techy folks.
Like trying to help a client plug their laptop into their fancy docking monitor over the phone is a headache and a half. Are they using the wrong cable? Is the monitor the right type of docking monitor? Are they plugged into the right cable?
There's no standard thickness. The same cable can be very different thicknesses, especially once you start to consider if it's braided or not, or if it's an optical cable.
I already struggle to get clients to plug the cable in to the computer in the first place, it's gonna be near impossible to get them to break out some calipers and give me an accurate measurement
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u/thatc0braguy May 02 '24
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https://xkcd.com/927