Charge! 0 ▲ the last word 2 hours ago · Tech · hide My charging apparatus is taking over my desk, my office, and my life. It seems like there are more and more things that need charging: iPhones, watches, tablets, computers, camera battery packs, strobe battery packs, LED photo lighting battery packs, emergency battery packs, remotes, photo stacking devices, mice, keyboards, flashlights… There’s not a lot of compatibility. You can’t charge Nikon or Hasselblad batteries with a Fuji battery charger. You can’t even charge all the Nikon and Fuji batteries with the same charger. And then there are the chargers themselves. Thanks to GaN, they are now small. But they usually have USB-C outputs with different connectors, different protocols, and different capacities, with the capacities indicated by small low-contrast printing in obscure terms. Folks, it’s the 2020s. Can we finally ditch USB-A connectors on chargers? There are plenty of adapters out there. They’re cheap. They’re mostly reliable. And how many devices do we have that need to use… Commenting on Bubbles has been removed. Why? If you want to talk about this post, write to the author, use the comments on their blog if it has them, or reply with a "RE:" post on your own blog. Suggestions? feedback@bubbles.town
