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?

    • Retrograde@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      9 months ago

      I was gonna say, Dell makes a ton of crap but their dongles are solid. I’ve been using the DA310 “puck” for over half a decade and it still works like new. I think they’re like 50 quid.

      The other thing is to just avoid those no-name Amazon ones like the fucking plague. I’ve worked IT long enough to know that they pretty much all die within a year, that is if they function at all.

    • varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      8·
      9 months ago

      Just don’t forget to update Firmware. I have two of them and one had stabikty issues with the connected display. FW update solved the issue.