[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