Comment by traceroute66
3 days ago
> Are you suggesting there is no middle ground
Sadly yes.
Like many people on that thread concluded:
The best "middle ground" thing you can do is pay a premium to buy your cables from reputable manufacturers.
3 days ago
> Are you suggesting there is no middle ground
Sadly yes.
Like many people on that thread concluded:
The best "middle ground" thing you can do is pay a premium to buy your cables from reputable manufacturers.
Buying my cables from decent manufacturers does not tell me what specific version of USB a cable purports to support, what voltage of USB-PD it can transmit, whether or not it can do Thunderbolt or DisplayPort, or a dozen other random capabilities inherent in these cables.
> Buying my cables from decent manufacturers does not tell me what specific version of USB a cable purports to support
A $40 toy won't tell you if the marker chips it has just read are fake / counterfeit.
You need the expensive kit for that.
I’ll be honest, man, it seems like you are not engaging in this discussion in good faith. You are hell-bent on pushing this viewpoint while completely ignoring what others are telling you their actual needs are.
We get it. A cheap tester will not tell me if a cable from a dodgy supplier is counterfeit. It will tell me what the capabilities are of the dozens of assorted cables I own from reputable manufacturers, which is otherwise difficult if not impossible to discern.
What the chip reports is itself inherently useful information, especially if you have cables from reliable manufacturers.
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