How are laptops with only USB-C supposed to be usable? Nowhere to attach rigid, 90%-internal devices like thumb drives & mouse dongles.
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Replying to @igormp
Then it's not 90% internal and rigid. It's 90% external and either floppy or a giant lever ready to destroy your laptop.
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Replying to @RichFelker
I believe that's the cost we have to pay until most external devices transition to USB-C, which seems to be far away from today.
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Replying to @igormp
How does the transition help? You simply can't get acceptable physical ux because there's no space to locate the device physically inside the port.
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Replying to @RichFelker
Once (and if) USB-C becomes the norm, maybe companies will put effort into actually making something small enough to fit this scenario. Maybe something T-shaped where the top part lays almost flush with your laptop encasing.
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Rich Felker Retweeted Rich Felker
I don't see any way you couldcouls get this kind of physical ux (low profile and firm fit) with USB-C:https://twitter.com/RichFelker/status/1000571761367375877?s=20 …
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I could imagine it'd be something like this:pic.twitter.com/zcBxUF3QG3
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Replying to @igormp @RichFelker
Also, I've never understood why most wireless mice actually require a dongle. Couldn't they work through Bluetooth or the laptop's own wifi card?
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Bluetooth yes absolutely. Wifi not really. Most wifi chips (or at least drivers) don't support concurrent association with AP and adhoc fully or at all, and the logical architecture isn't right for it anyway.
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Replying to @RichFelker @igormp
I think trend for dongles is more about it working full pnp. Bluetooth pairing would be more secure tho.
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Bluetooth pairing could become easier on the PC though. An example of something like that done right was with the pairing process between Apple's Airpods and iPhones. Why don't we have something like that in PC land? Even the process in OSX is more complicated.
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