Comment on USB-C gets a bit more universal as the EU’s mandate goes into effect

• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lightning and barrel connectors are pretty solid.

  Micro USB is worse than USB-C for sure. See my other comment on this post.

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  • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve got a an iPhone 5c that still charges and works well (for playing some old seasonal games my wife loves) and its lighting port is still fine. As are all the other lighting ports I’ve got (7-8 devices over the years). I tend to use my devices for as long as they get OS support (and way longer on the laptops). The cables are the first to fail when bent or mishandled while charging.

    I’ve now heard a few stories about melting connectors when they’re being held (a bad habit my wife has while laying in bed, but it only hurts the cable, so it’s not the end of her phone if it happens…yet). The USB-C charging on my MacBook is finicky as fuck, but it at least has 4 different ports if one fails.

    The MagSafe connectors on MacBooks are the best IMO, my older MacBooks always connect with a click and start charging with a led indicator to show status. They never should have changed it. Which is probably why they changed it back.

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