| > So what, there's a brick that does qc, and there a usb c connector on the other end. My mom plugs it in, it fits, and it doesn't charge. Well it kind of sounds many of your complaints involve A-to-C cables and like, if we had a variety of plugs the issues caused by adapter cables would get significantly worse, not better. > How would my mom know that? The cable fits. This is a different scenario from someone asking if 45 watts will work. > So why does it fit if it doesn't work then? It does work. You said it worked. > and if you clearly mark everything so you don't use the wrong cable for the wrong device (since the bricks are behind the nightstand) Wait, is it two bricks or one brick? And either way you can solve that with a good brick. > Normal people buy something that fits. Yeah, do that! Where "fits" means watts, nobody is testing the physical plug in the store. Buy something where the spec fits. > ikea advertises it can charge a laptop, why would a phone prevent it from charging a laptop? Normal people can understand "if you split the power it splits the power", Jesus. One device per brick if you don't want to split the power. Simple. > SO which ones are 60W? There are 3 similarly looking ones behind the nightsand, they all fit. So she must buy different colored cables now too, or move the nightstand every night to check which cable goes where? Three bricks? Four cables total? Yeah different cable colors would be fine I guess. Again I mention that going by "the cable fits" with a bunch of random barrel plugs could set things on fire. Needing to distinguish cables is annoying but at least avoids danger. And you can get a brick that handles everything if you want. > But my powerbank has only 18watts. I already have it. Will it charge the laptop? Or won't it? If you already have it then just test it, dude. Without USB a random power bank would have 5% odds of working at all, and you'd still need to test it to know, so this is a very petty complaint at this point. > Those troubles didn't exist before usb C, because every device had a custom plug that only fit that device and charged it properly, there was basically no way to mess them up. But sometimes those plugs match and yes you can mess them up. And custom plugs make it so much harder to plug things in in multiple places, or get replacements. > but it will take ages to charge from the old charger This was true of a lot of phones before USB-C ever existed. > Yes i know, I should It sounds like a couple labels would work for this situation. And they'd be less annoying than repeatedly trying very similar but not identical plugs to see which fits. |