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I strongly disagree with this. I purposely do not buy anything that’s not USB-C or lightning because I like being able to bring one charger for everything. Do you have older version of the RPi4? They accidentally made the USB-C non compliant but was fixed in late 2018, early 2019. Overall, as long as you have a 100W USB-C cable, you can practically charge anything (minus the now 240W standard).

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To clarify: I want both. I only buy laptops with barrel jack and USB-C. The same with mini PCs.

It is OK for travelling. But my portable USB-C monitors randomly switch off for power renegotiation!

USB-C is not so great for stationary use. I always run into issues where all USB ports can not be fully powered, despite sufficient power rating on USB-C adapter. Older Macbooks would even discharge, while plugged, USB-C could not deliver enough juice, for high performance apps!

And those bloody things are supper expensive (like 100 euro). Cheaper are highly questionable and not even grounded!

> Cheaper are highly questionable and not even grounded!

Hey man, I like the light vibrations I get when I rest my forearms below the keyboard at night.

Nope.

I'm fine with either. The big advantage of the old way is if you have something approximately the right voltage (and sufficient wattage) all you need is a $0.25 barrel connector to charge. I damaged the power brick for my laptop once and ran it off of a bench supply with the original DC cable while I was waiting for the replacement to arrive in the mail.

With USB-C PD, If you live sufficiently close to a Best Buy (or similar) you can usually just get the USB PD brick with the most listed versions supported and have it work "good enough" but I have definitely seen laptops/PD brick combinations that negotiate rather low power.

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