“Must be a king!”

“Why do you say that?”

“Well, he doesn’t have shit all over him.”

Why isn’t anyone even trying to guillotine our billionare megalomaniacs? 🤔

The idea is to get people used to visiting KFC.

They hate game developers.

Trump was elected in 2016 because he got on twitter and was a birther dickhead.

Democrats ran Hillary and that was just a bridge too far for some Americans.

Democrats ran an old white man in 2020 and won.

2024 Democrats are running a black woman. Is that a bridge too far for Middle Amerikkka?

A fountain pen is just a controlled leak

The consumer facing names for those transmission specs are and have always been:

• SuperSpeed 10 Gbps

• SuperSpeed 20 Gbps

Unless you’re designing your own circuits you don’t need to worry about signaling rates (ie “Gen”) or lane configuration (Z×Y).

The don’t.

But give me an example of what you’re talking about. I’ll explain.

There are at least 4 different incompatible 1/8" TRRS standards.

You couldn’t have picked a worse example.

Sometimes people want to charge their phone in an outlet 10 feet from their airport seat.

Sometimes people want to transmit 8k video.

It’s not physically possible to do both tasks with the same cable.

But because USB is a flexible standard, we don’t have two incompatible specs to do the same thing. So when you get out of the airport and to your meeting, you can actually plug your phone into the meeting room projector for your business presentation. That’s a win.

It has to be optional to remain a “Universal” spec.

If it had more requirements, it would be more cumbersome to implement and device manufacturers would come up with completely different, completely incompatible cables and ports (a la Apple’s lightning) that would cause you even more headaches.

People do not want to be limited to 1m long cords or only have thick and stiff Thunderbolt3 cords with 20 different conductors for a wired mouse.

Minimum specs like you are proposing just make the standard less useful and would lead to more competing specs that aren’t compatible at all (a la lightning cables).

To be a truly “universal” spec, flexibility is king.

Do you regularly read highly technical whitepapers? I don’t see how an 800 page document is comical for something that works so well.

USB Hi-speed transfer rate are just fine for devices that need to charge regularly but frequently transfer data wirelessly.

USB 2.0 stopped being a relevant whitepaper in late 2001.

If you have a 3.0 port on one device, a 2.0 port on the other device, and a 3.1 cable, you get 2.0 transfer speeds.

USB ports are not labeled with numbers. You just made up numbers to name several different things.

This is why you think things are “poorly labled”. Your headcannon is broken, not the labeling.

USB in 1996: lets let you plug any device into the back of your computer.

USB in 2024: phones, tablets laptops are going to charge at crazy voltages and we’re going to show you 8k video all over the same port and you can insert it in both directions and we’re still going to connect any device to any device.

I mean, they update the standard to add new things. Is that bad?

SuperSpeed is not a “legacy” name.

It’s the name of a transfer rate.

I do not trust the maker of this infographic if they cannot understand some basic facts.

Guns are a constitutional right.

So the only real way to stop school shootings is to get rid of schools.

Identifying might be the best word to use, given the psychology literature all tends to use that, but thank you for your critique.