On Thu, 14 May 2026 13:31:20 -0600 "D. R. Evans" <[email protected]> wrote:
> David Wright wrote on 5/13/26 1:14 PM: > > > you may have a charging-only cable (good for privacy), or > > a duff cable. > > > > I confess that the notion that a legitimate "Universal Serial Bus" > cable would not, you know, actually transfer data ... well, that > never occurred to me. But an Internet search quickly disabused me of > my naïveté... even though it still seems to me akin to buying a box > labelled "Corn Flakes" that contains neither corn nor flakes. > > The power-only cables, usually described as 'charging cables' but often also, confusingly, as 'high speed' are becoming more common, and indeed USB is now pretty much a power distribution protocol. No longer is it just 5 Volts. I recently bought a couple of 2m USB-A to micro-USB cables, and it needed careful study of advertisements to be sure I was getting data cables. -- Joe
