Good stuff, but it's telling me that my USB-C Thunderbolt cable has been plugged in upside down but the connector handled this. I was not aware that you can plug in something into USB-C upside down!

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justusthane 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I wasn't either (insomuch as I had never thought about it), but it makes sense if you think about it for a second. If you have one end plugged in one way, and the other end plugged in the other way, each individual wire is flipped from where it should be. The fact that you _can_ plug it in either way means that the device on one end needs to be capable of recognizing that and logically reversing it. Same as automatic crossover in Ethernet.

That's all the program is telling you. It doesn't matter that it's backwards, but technically it is.

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regularfry 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It's not always the case that the cable will correctly fix it. I think (hope?) any that any which didn't would be out of spec, but they exist...

	▲	justusthane 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's the cable that is supposed to reverse itself and not the device? I'm not entirely sure I buy that - seems like it would add a lot of unnecessary complexity to every cable.

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jrmg 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What does it mean to be ‘upside down’ if the connector handles both orientations?

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sleepingNomad an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

This has been fixed now, apologies.