TIL; there are different types of USB-C cables with functional differences.
How do you know what type the cable is? Is is possible to detect it visually?
How do you know what type the cable is? Is is possible to detect it visually?
You can't tell them apart visually, and you can't always trust the specs promised on Amazon either.
There are testing tools like https://www.tindie.com/products/aroerina2/usb-cable-checker/
There was a Google engineer (Bensen Leung) who bought, tested and reviewed all the cables he could find, but with the shutdown of Google+ the archive seems to be lost.
Unless you're telling me they are one and the same.
Edit: original link: https://medium.com/@leung.benson/how-to-design-a-proper-usb-...
didn't realize amazon is the arbiter of all knowledge hardware..
It's tempting to build some sort of test rig for this (though I hardly have the background for it)...
They're also usually marked with a little ThunderBolt and also perplexingly a little "3" presumably in case there's a ThunderBolt 4 sometime in the future that's mad enough not to release with its own connector specification.