I was looking for a new USB-c hub and came across this article. It’s an interesting write-up of what is on the inside of some popular options
draft - can we get a usbc community going on lemmy.world / lemmy like we have r/usbchardware (reddit.com/r/usbchardware) on reddit? thank you
As someone who enjoys a bit of practicality into everything…? I was tempted to buy one of those little tidbits for a “futureproof” feel onto everything I plugged the little bastards in.
Until I met the… kvm switch. It may not allow me to plug a billion different things into it… but damn. It really works.
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I don’t know why it has taken so many tries for the original writer to realize this. I did the same mistake back in 2020 with a hub rebranded that I paid 80 euros and after I saw that the charging power this hub is providing is capped at 70 watts, fired up AliExpress and like the movie “spoilers obviously”
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I saw all the same products just for 10 euros or so. I ended up buying a dell docking station second hand for 50 euros that is doing what it promised to do and although might not be the best product but delivers enough power to my laptop.
I bought a $200 USBC hub. It worked for a few months and then suddenly would do something to my laptop so that it would stop accepting a charge until the battery died completely and I restarted it.
Still works for my Steam Deck but largely a giant waste of money.
Tl;dr: Mac driver has issues with an often used cheap and buggy realtek network chip.
