• Kalash@feddit.ch
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    1 year ago

    Will go up to 48V (240W) with the next USB-PD standard.

    But as long as it’s reputable hardware that actually implements the starndard, I’m not too worried.

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      1 year ago

      48V and we’re back to POTS (plain old telephone system) voltages :-)

      I agree, but that’s the problem even from reputable sources, glitch happens. Old 5V-only chargers would need much more things to go wrong to fry our devices. A 20V (or 48V !) one is just a small (sw or hw) glitch away to zap a device that doesn’t support such voltages.

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        1 year ago

        The USB standard is usally really robust and the changes of SW errors is small. If you have a good brand laptop it will probably come with very reliable charger as well. I really don’t worry about it.