Comment on Planning on buying a SteamDeck. What should I know before purchasing?
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks agoYou can disable wake from bluetooth in system settings now, and you can even disable it per device.
Also 180 degree USB-C connectors are really nice, but they actually aren’t USB-C spec compatible and can potentially burn up or other issues. Basically when you use a USB-C cord, there’s 3 way communication where the charger and cord both report to the deck what voltages and amperage amounts they support, and then the Deck decides what to charge at. The 180 degree connector isn’t part of this communication, and is invisible to the rest of the system. If it’s not able to support the charge rate of the other devices, it can burn up and potentially destroy your deck and cable.
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 1 week ago
Good to know!
The JSAUX one is definitely robust enogh to handle Steam Deck charging. Also, I’m pretty sure it has a chip in it. It was advertised as such when I bought it. That means it probably is compliant.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
The thing is it can’t actually be compliant, because the spec doesn’t allow all 4 pieces to communicate. The adapter is either passing on the cable’s info (and pretending to be invisible) or it has to overwrite it with its own info.
The adapter could maybe do it safely if it evaluated itself vs the cable, and specifically reported the lowest performance piece to the device, but that would still be a standards violation.