when i become empress, releasing an ac adapter that doesn't bear the name of the fucking thing it goes with shall be punishable by death
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tl;dr USB C and Thunderbolt 3 make PHP look like a simple, elegant design and I mean that literally and yes I made horrible insecure websites with PHP
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(it might not be clear but that thread started when i plugged an apple thunderbolt 3 to thunderbolt 2 adapter into an usb c port on my xps13 laptop and expected it to work. i ended up cutting the adapter open, desoldering the controller, figuring out what industry standard chip…
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Apple remarked with their own p/n, reverse-engineering the adapter and its test points, dumping and reverse-engineering the adapter firmware, obtaining vendor tools for USB C controllers that are for some reason export-controlled and you can't just download them or the docs,
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reflashing the controller, reading the entire USB PD spec, making an USB PD protocol sniffer, dumping the firmware in my laptop, enabling undocumented Intel-only features in vendor tools, figuring out internal Intel politics, and finally pestering at least two Dell people…
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including one that is responsible for the USB PD firmware in my specific laptop... ... and I still don't know why the fuck doesn't the goddamn thing just work.)
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have you considered just using a wall charger
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also i saw this thread a bit ago and it was horrifying yes which makes me kind of sad because usb-c seems like it works great in my limited interactions with it, but /of course/ it's a labyrinthine nightmare, why wouldn't it be.
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