• Aneb@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Me stacking my deck with ‘Draw 2 cards’ with no damage or money cards in my hand

    • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      That’s a Lenovo E480. There are two other USB-A and a USB-C and HDMI on the other side, plus you can’t see behind the dongles but there’s an ethernet port on the laptop as well.

      I only have two complaints with what I’m looking at. One is there’s probably not enough power for whatever you have connected to all of those USB things. And two, there’s not enough support for the port that you’re plugging this into to resist the weight of all of the dongles, which could damage the motherboard.

      • azimir@lemmy.ml
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        3 months ago

        What if they’re external drives with their own power supplies? I’ve done things nearly this convoluted, but used self powered devices.

          • azimir@lemmy.ml
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            3 months ago

            I’m quite familiar with that one.

            The worst one was the pre Raspberry Pi 3 boards. The early ones used an on board Ethernet chip set that was slaved directly to the USB controller. It was USB 2.0 so it could negotiate 100, but really run much less than that.

            Then, if you put in a keyboard, mouse, and a USB thumb drive the USB host would multiplex over them and your bandwidth for data transfer would drop precipitously.

            I was so happy when they moved to a real Ethernet chip instead of a USB adapter. The new limitation became the microSD… Of course they also introduced the grounding reset issue on the USB port, but just don’t plus or unplug anything and it’d be fine.

      • Jyek@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Ehhh I deploy a lot of these thin and light machines in place of desktops. The goal is to use a dock and have the IO that is needed at a desk but also have the portability of the small laptop that can do work remotely. The benefit is that you don’t have to remote into your work PC.

    • db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      I wish… unpopular opinion but I love Apple’s approach with the MBAir. I want a skinny device with 2-3 C Ports max.

      I’m done with USB A, on the rare occasion I need it I gladly use an adapter to improve portability the other 90% of the time. Any hardware made for Linux by non-US companies has several A ports, a few C, ethernet, HDMI, SD card… nope, I got a tower with all the ports. My portable should stay portable.

      • Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de
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        3 months ago

        USB-C isn’t a straight upgrade of USB-A though. Both have their pros and cons.

        USB-C has much higher bandwidth and allows more power draw. 2 nice features, but totally useless on something like a mouse.

        USB-A is soo much cheaper and more sturdy. A much better connector for simple peripherals like mouses and keyboards.

        So a laptop with only USB-C is quite dumb. It costs nothing to add a couple of USB-A ports, and it will save you a lot of money.