Total side note but the utility knife pictured is the Stanley FatMax utility knife. It’s not perfect but of the 6 or so I’ve tried, it’s the one I hate the least.
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Can confirm, such combined hubs have almost always a weak/cheap part that makes the whole thing useless on failing. That's why i now go with a single-job-per-component principle. Ethernet to USB-C adapter and HDMI to USB-C adapter on a hub for example.
Tell that to the brand new, pretty expensive laptop I recently got from work which has a whopping 1 USB-C port that also doubles as the charging port. In no way can I get a multifunctional adapter to charge and output DisplayPort or HDMI at the same time. I'm starting to dislike USB and the clusterfuck of incompatible or optional protocols it can carry.
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Did about a year of a docked laptop setup. Basically anything CableMatters is good. I used the 201331-BLK-J (DisplayPort Ultrawide) and the 201310-BLK-N (HDMI 2.1 OLED TV).
I would pass through my 100W charger and it worked fine. Audio would be sent over the video connection which meant no driver issues. I had speakers connected to the monitor.
The rest of the USB ports were miscellaneous and at least one cable going to the monitor to use its USB ports.
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I'd really like a tiny USB hub with 2 to 3 ports (say 2x A and 1x C) and a mSD reader, as an accessory to my phone or tablet.
I don't get why everything needs to be so large and overengineered.
There's a pretty large market of people who want to use a desktop, with its large, dual monitors, high-capacity external storage, printer, high-speed wired network, physical mouse/input device when they're in their office, but still have the flexibility to carry a relatively high performance computer with all their stuff to meetings.
Simple usb dongle/expanders are much easier - I've got a 4 port with all As, a usb-mSD adapter, and a A/C adapter, and I don't think I paid $30 for the whole deal. Something like https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MLRPTT2
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USB-C hubs all seem to be dodgy crap made by anonymous Chinese companies and resold through various companies, including the likes of Apple. There's an absolute dearth of hubs made by actual reputable firms.
I don’t know why it has taken so many tries for the original writer to realize this. I did the same mistake back in 2020 with a hub rebranded that I paid 80 euros and after I saw that the charging power this hub is providing is capped at 70 watts, fired up AliExpress and like the movie “spoilers obviously”
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I saw all the same products just for 10 euros or so.
I ended up buying a dell docking station second hand for 50 euros that is doing what it promised to do and although might not be the best product but delivers enough power to my laptop.
I bought a $200 USBC hub. It worked for a few months and then suddenly would do something to my laptop so that it would stop accepting a charge until the battery died completely and I restarted it.
Still works for my Steam Deck but largely a giant waste of money.
If you tell the support you use Linux, do they listen a bit better?
This is a Haiku install, but that's not import-
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Haiku? It's an experimental OS that I... Oh never mind.
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Tl;dr: Mac driver has issues with an often used cheap and buggy realtek network chip.
I’ve use a CalDigit TS3 Plus on my MacBook Pro for a couple of years, it’s pretty reliable. There is a lot of noise over the headphone port though, so I don’t use that.
I swear by the Kingston nucleum.