huh. apparently usb 4 exists
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@Felthry It does! It's more or less USB 3.1 with the power delivery extension and the entity formerly known as Intel Thunderbolt baked into the base protocol, plus some other odds and ends.
Or, in other words, "all this other stuff we were already doing is official now."
@terrana Which isn't really great considering that half the things you might want to use it for are optional extensions and half of *those* require special cables
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@Felthry I admit that I do like the idea, even if the implementation of that idea is more than a little chaotic. It's nice being able to set my laptop down, plug in one cable, and have my screens and all the peripherals on my desk connect up.
@terrana Oh, the idea is nice! I kind of feel like having a separate connector specifically for that, like how old laptop docks worked, would be better though. Though it would *need* to be a standardized connector that's reasonably easy to use, not the bespoke things that laptop docks of the time used. Something similar, but not identical, to USB. Or at least color code the cables and connectors or something based on capabilities!
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@Felthry They've decided to become the One Port To Rule Them All.