Some basic info about USB

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Handy guide, but this whole USB situation is a cock-up, since it needs the freakin guide in the first place.

Meh, while there really could be less. At least they are all physically compatible. And backwards protocol compatible to the lowest common denominator. Which is a huge step forward.

Seriously, as an IT person, I still never know what most of my USB ports are capable of, but I'm glad they are backwards compatible. If something is slow, then I try a different cable and port.

At least they are all physically compatible.

They mostly support an electrical least-common-denominator (like, I have USB devices that won't accept USB PD for charging below a given level), but they definitely aren't all physically-compatible. There are a lot of physical USB connectors.

Thank you, I had almost forgotten that you can't make a comment on the Internet without someone misunderstanding even basic assumptions. Like in this case, a picture exclusively showing usb-c, could be assumed that a comment about it, would also be referring to usb-c.

P.S. (I'm fully aware the last one is usb-a, the writer even makes note of it and why they included it).

There nothing in the comment that you are responding to or OP's original post that is specific to USB-C. OP references USB-A and USB-C both, and the comment you responded to doesn't specify USB-C.