I have three of these I’ve collected over the last 3 years, and none of them work anymore.

Is this the new USB-C future we were promised? With a single-point of failure for everything as the number of ports on laptop decreases year-on-year?

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    9·
    13 days ago

    Hey, at least it beats Micro USB.

    I’d be lucky if those cables lasted more than a few months before breaking. I threw out literal bin bags full of them last time I moved, not a single one worked at all, no signs of visible damage either.

    My USB-C cables have largely lasted, even the one that came with my OG Pixel still sees use, and one for my work laptop charger is literally bent 45 degrees up but still works fine anyway.

    While I don’t live that dongle life, I’ve never had one of these fail either, but I bought only one and it was fairly expensive.

  • RoabeArt [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    13 days ago

    In my first field IT job, I had to use a dock that had a parallel printer port that we used to configure and troubleshoot the ancient line printers the company was still using. Those docks barely lasted a year and they would just straight up quit working no matter what computer you plugged them into.

  • GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukEnglish
    4·
    13 days ago

    The answer is, you have to buy a Proper ™️ one.

    With active cooling, a power supply, and proper Lightning etc. support.

    I buy Dell WD19TB units second hand from CeX for about £60. New, they cost several hundred.
    Even then, they have issues (fans staying on, and a STUPID bug where turning off the machine causes power-off packets to spam the network).
    But for general work, they’re very reliable.