USB-C PD: New Technology Done Right
hackaday.com
There is a tendency as we get older, to retreat into an instinctive suspicion of anything new or associated with young people. All of us will know older people who have fallen down this rabbit hole…

I wanted to share this opinion on Hackaday about a topic that is the usefulness of a something that has become ubiquitous relatively fast.

This techonolgyy has a lot of potential, what do you think?

  • Tangent5280@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    8 months ago

    Is there any disadvantage to this renegotiation? As far as I know, it happens to make sure the charging block doesnt burn your house down.

    • Toes♀@ani.socialEnglish
      24·
      8 months ago

      The biggest problem is that devices that aren’t battery powered will reboot.

      Ideally you would have each port on its own isolated bus.

      • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
        11·
        8 months ago

        I suspect a most people call power bricks “chargers” and forget there are non-battery-powered devices that they can power.

    • Great Blue Heron@lemmy.caEnglish
      9·
      8 months ago

      USB-PD can be used for more than just charging. If you’re running something (a headphone amp for example) from one port of a multi-port brick, you don’t want it to stop momentarily every time you plug or unplug one of the other ports.

    • narc0tic_bird@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      8 months ago

      Yes, if the device isn’t battery powered. Think one-board computers or also docks (for example Steam Deck Dock). The Deck doesn’t turn off, but the dock switches to being powered by the Steam Deck momentarily, which resets its ports as well (display and network disconnects briefly).