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I just get Thunderbolt 4 cables and I don’t have to worry about it. They’re more expensive, but they always work for everything and they’ll hopefully be around for a while.

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Aren’t they like $100 a meter or something? And unreasonably thick and stiff?

Yes, and yes. This is ridiculously bad advice when you just want a cable to put in your bag to charge your phone with when you're out.

No.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08YS59V4K

Apple sells them for $129 for 1.8m, which is way more than their other cables.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MN713AM/A/thunderbolt-4-p...

Fortunately Apple isn't the only company selling these cables.

They're $3 plus s&h for .3m on Amazingon.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0B18CW25H

An active device being sold for 3 dollars? Gotta be one of those amazon fakes.

It works fine for me.

Sadly this is probably the best strategy. As the Chinese saying goes,

  "He who buys the best cries only once."

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