[SketchySeaBeast]

Not taking exception to any of your points - honestly, I think that while this new USB world is confusing, it is much better than it was in the day of the barrel plugs, especially not that everything is becoming USB-C. Just taking exception to this one point:

> The port is either marked (everything but MacBooks) or doesn't matter (MacBooks, pretty sweet).

Except that even when there shouldn't be a right choice, there still is:

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/309802-charging-a-macb...

[dspillett]

Direct link to the SO post and answer that the extremetech page paraphrases, for those who don't consent to being tracked left/right/centre and would prefer not to click hundreds of times to say so: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/363337/how-to-find...

[yarcob]

Summary for people who don't want to click a link:

Some MacBook Pros get very hot when you use the USB-C ports on the left side for charging.

[SketchySeaBeast]

Yeah, that is a better link for the technical stuff, but you seem to imply it's clean when it comes to tracking and it's obviously not.

[dspillett]

Fair point, I could have made the effort to make that clear, but it is far far far less _un_clean if you care at all about such things.

Two clicks to opt-out of everything¹ compared to tens, some of which include needing to visit the parter separately to opt-out there, and even then it is not complete because some simply marked “this partner does not provide an opt-out”. ExtremeTech: welcome to my DNS blacklist.

[¹] assuming you trust it to actually opt you out properly, of course

[cromka]

> Except that even when there shouldn't be a right choice, there still is:

Except this is an issue with a specific Apple product, not the USB spec as this thread implies.

[SketchySeaBeast]

Yeah, it's not the USB specs or cables fault, but they said it didn't matter on some devices and used the example of a MacBook, where it still does.