Cause: EU regulators move to force everybody to standardize on USB-C.

Effect: USB-C starts to lose the features that made it minimally acceptable in the first place.

I don't know if this is cause and effect or some kind of punishment from the nonexistent tech gods, but "unplug your cable and turn it over" is the new "push that boulder up the hill again". Enjoy your liver while you've got it.

@zarfeblong IIRC extension cables are not allowed in the USB specifications. So any place making them is winging it, with this kind of odd result

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