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USB-c is absolutely not good enough. The connectors are often incompatible due to tiny manufacturing tolerances, cables from different manufacturers often fall out of the port after longer term use, don't make good connection so you have flaky charging, the cables and connectors look the same but are actually incompatible due to supporting only USB 2/3/4 or thunderbolt, whether displayport/hdmi alt mode is supported, etc. This small short-term gain at the cost of locking in USB-c forever was a terrible idea, brought to you by the same hypercompetent group that mandated cookie banners.


Cookie-banners were never mandated. It's just a fucking stupid way by the website operators, trying to circumvent data privacy regulation.

And when it comes to USB-C. Sure, it's far from perfect, but it's a great foundation to built upon and improve.


That's the point, the regulation effectively locks in USB-C as it is.


They were mandated by the EU. You don't get to pass crap laws of the form "show a banner or do {vague/impossible/unacceptable thing}" and then complain when 100% of people show a banner. That kind of inane immaturity is why the EU is so far behind and falling further.


Please don't fulminate on HN. You may not owe cookie banners better, but we're trying for a better style of conversation here. Please make an effort to observe the guidelines, which seek to make HN a place for curious conversation, not rage.

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