[jrochkind1]

Thunderbolt 3 uses the USB-C format.

Headline from the official thunderbolt website: "Thunderbolt™ 3 – The USB-C That Does It All"

-- https://thunderbolttechnology.net/blog/thunderbolt-3-usb-c-d...

This whole sub-thread is just a really good hilarious demonstration of the whole problem, nobody has any idea how to figure out what a given cable or port will do anymore. We can't even talk about it without getting confused. (But can still be snarky to others who we think got it wrong, even when we're wrong ourselves. It's the internet, we'll never run out of superciliousness!)

[netizen-936824]

I've dealt with it too. Some USB c extenders even won't carry some signals, such as video. It's an unbelievable frustrating mess. Just because thunderbolt uses the same USB c style connector doesn't make it usb c I wouldn't think. I figured the connector itself would have its own name, such as rj45 does. But who knows with this shit show.

[jrochkind1]

I believe the name of the connector is "USB-C". So that's thunderbolt over USB-C, which is what all thunderbolt 3/4 is.

The wikipedia article is both helpful and hilariously complicated:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB-C