• Sparkega@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          Eliminates a malicious threat vector. Gives you piece of mind to charge your devices without worry that what you connect to is going to interact with your device.

        • eyeon@lemmy.world
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          it’s also safer when wanting to charge from untrusted chargers, though you can still get an adapter to block the data pins or just bring your own wall charger/battery when traveling

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        9 months ago

        I think power only cables should exist because they are significantly cheaper, but they should have some kind of marking to differentiate them enforced by the standard

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      9 months ago

      They are afaik not allowed to exist with USB C. And except for some very few very sketchy manufacturers, it’s also luckily not a thing in practice.