Therapist: USB3.0 Micro-B is dead, it can't hurt you.
Nintendo: Invents dual USB-C
The Samsung Galaxy S5 lineup was wild: 
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I had a boss who called that connector the "Samsung plug" when I had an external HDD and was trying to find a cable for it. I had an S5 for years, so I knew exactly what he was talking about, not that it quelled my shock given he was the team lead of IT support.
Needless to say he was (and still probably is) a huge Samsung guy
When I told my boss, in IT, about these he told me to stop making things up LMAO.
I mean, you knew immediately what he was talking about. What's the issue?
I think my initial shock was that he's my supervisor and couldn't even identify that it was a standard outside of the Galaxy S5, so it brings any IT knowledge of his into question.
That being said, he was pretty open about us technicians knowing more about the nitty gritty computing than he did, so his lack of IT knowledge wasn't a major issue as he was a decent team leader, which I found more important to his position.
If this were reddit, he would've been a huge piece of shit
Omg what?! My Galaxy S5 had Micro-USB, not this monstrosity, I think
It's called micro b superspeed. It's basically micro-b with an optional extra connector to reach USB 3.0 speeds. Unless the device needs the extra power rail (like a 2.5" HDD), then you can still use a regular micro b cable to get USB 2.0 speeds.
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Nintendon't give a shit about their customers
Switch 2 NDK
the Noftware Development Kit?
Nintendo Developer Kit
No Dick Kit
Ohhhh... Nintendo Gender-Switch.
I assume it means "Native Development Kit" since that's what "Android NDK" means
Alright - why?
We know power and data can go over a single one.
It can’t be for more power - one should(?) be sufficient for whatever I’m looking at.
Only thing I can think of is some video optimization.
More power, basically. Nintendo isn't the only one that's done this. Apple and dell both have laptops with them. https://superuser.com/questions/1615832/why-do-some-docking-stations-have-a-double-usb-c-plug has some other answers, such as video disabling certain functions.
This is a development kit, so the transmitted signals / pinout could have nothing in common with regular usb-c and they just needed more lanes than one usb-c cable can provide, leading them to develop this monstrosity.
Similar to the PCIe extenders that use USB3 male to male or HDMI as their connector / cable.
Can't you do like 240w with USB C thunderbolt?
Bandwidth limitations. Power limits the amount of data, so use one for each, or double the data maybe?
A single usbc can deviler 240W and data at 40 GB/s, what else can it be other than vendor lockin by nintendo?
What revision is that, and that’s also seriously limited by cord length.
It’s anything BUT, it’s a dev kit lmfao.
USB 3.2 or 4 allows for a thunderbolt 4 interface, that runs at 40 GB/s (for external gpu cards). Thunderbolt also uses Power Delivery and the latest version allows for a 48V @ 5A profile, that would be 240W. Even previous versions allow for 24V @ 5V (120W).
As for the cable length I wouldn't really know, probably it's possible up to a meter, if the cable is well shielded, the power doesn't change much because the current os always rather low, it's the voltage that increases.
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I don't know what it is really but I'd guess yo plug 2 things?
Very too close one tonthe other for me 😖
If it was to plug 2 things, the connectors would be separated so 2 plugs could fit into them.
I hate it.
...i have hard drives that only work with the one power cord with that plug...
...need to clarify, i own 5 cables with that plug, but only one works...
Is it actually that plug or is it just micro-usb B 3.0, because I’ve never seen a dual c port like that
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Some high power laptops do this too. You can even get special docks for them with 2 cables.
My work laptop has 2 USB-C charger ports, which I hadn't noticed until recently
Look at Nintendo trying to be Apple.
Back in my day, everybody on Reddit was saying they should merge.
In other news, there are also efforts from a lot of chinese companies to establish the GPMI connector, aka. wide boi usb-c.
This one is for media, as an HDMI alternative. It goes up to 8K (192 Gb/s) and 480 W of power delivery. I hope there is no DRM on those.
yeah that sounds cool
Looks like the old school iPad dock connection.
That looks like the mini SATA connection for my external HDD
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