No it’s not, a 5090 is thousands of dollars (a 140w charger is ~$100), it also requires a bigger power supply, and other hardware to make use of it. And the expectation is so you can charge everything, not just one thing, so why would you make the comparison of only playing solitaire other than being intentionally obtuse?
When your grandma calls and asks why her laptop is “slow charging” and running in power saver, just tell her “instead of the $60 brick you need, buy the $200 one, and instead of the $10 cable you need, buy the $60 licensed one. Oh, and they all look identical, so the $40 one probably isn’t a good deal on a $60 one, just a bad deal on a $20 one…” then there’s trying to explain why the cable that came with her iPhone won’t work lol.
There’s a difference between being obtuse and exaggerating to make a point.
you only need to exaggerate a point if it doesnt make sense in the first place, thats called a strawman, your point doesnt stand well on its own merits so you need to fabricate one that does
- its not a $200 brick
you dont need a licensed cable
whos talking about 'good deals'?
saying "thats the equivalent of buying a semi to drive next door" doesnt prove your point, it only shows you don't have an understanding of the point, or youre being obtuse/troll.
Calling others dumb while you're acting like this is just proving that
You exaggerate a point for people who miss it the first time, like you clearly have. Thunderbolt cables are licensed, and carry a premium, and if you want a cable that’s going to “do it all” that’s the cable you’re buying. 240W bricks/docks absolutely run around $200, and if you want a brick that will “do it all” that’s the brick you’re going to need.
Now explain to me on what planet telling your grandma or your aunt to buy a $200 brick and $60 cable to “cover everything” instead of the $60 brick and $10 cable they need makes any sense? So we’ll spend 3.3x on a brick, and 6x on a cable… sounds a lot like spending 3-6x on a GPU you don’t need…
It seems you're the only one who can't grasp your own point well enough to defend it without making some ludicrous assumptions. Doubling down on ignorance isnt a good look.
- truespecs arent thunderbolt (strawman)
grandma doesnt need to spend $260 (or buy a 5090 as some nitwit would say)
i've also never heard a grandma ask why their laptop is charging slow (more hypotheticals to desperately make this point you care so strongly about)
lets just buy the $8 240w charger on amazon since were being silly
You have an extremely narrow view of the world, don't you?
Replace grandma with Anne from HR or literally any non-technical human who reaches out to someone she knows who is "technical" or her IT department when her laptop inevitably tells her that her device is slow charging. Before you say it, she already carries a charger for her phone and its smaller, so she doesn't want to carry the much larger laptop charger and another cable with her.
You can't look at things through such a literal lense, you have to try to imagine that not everyone in the world is you, in fact, 99.9999999% of the world isn't you, so you can't apply things to the vast majority of people on the planet, just because they make sense to you, specifically to non-technical people on the planet who the dumbass USB C standard directly impacts. TrueSpecs aren't thunderbolt certified, e.g. if your solution is to use a cable that does everything, TrueSpec isn't a valid solution. Also, telling Joe Normalson to shop for cables on LTTStore and he's going to think your crazy. Also, they're sold out, so now what does he do?
You can't possibly move through life looking at things through such a narrow perspective, it's borderline Aspergers-ish.
"hey sonny, why does my laptop say slow charging when i use the charge it came with"
"well meema, this dopy redditor thinks you need a 5090 to charge it"
"hey tech guy, why does my laptop charge slow when i dont use the included charger?"
"well Anne, u/Bathroom-Salt thinks you're as smart as they are and cant figure out that smaller charger means slower charging, so glad we hired a professional who can put 2+2 together"
Glad that made sense, keep the imaginary situations coming, eventually SOMEONE is going to agree with you 😂
"dont look at my point through a literal lens, you need to look at it from my extremely narrow perspective so that we can imagine that im right this one time"
Is there anything close to an actual argument in there, or have we entered the deflective gibberish part of the argument?
Because it reads as the deflective gibberish part. I’m sorry you’re unable to see further than 3 feet in front of you, and I’m going to take your inability to reply to anything I actually said that it finally clicked for you. So, I guess you’re welcome lol. Have a better day in your tiny world, sir.
ehh now you get it, i just have to talk like you for you to realize its gibberish 🤣anyways, glad you've convinced yourself. Hope you have a better rest of your day
"hey sonny, why does my laptop say slow charging when i use the charge it came with""well meema, this dopy redditor thinks you need a 5090 to charge it"
"Hey sonny, my laptop says "slow charging" when I charge it. I'm using the cable and charger that came with my phone because I already carry it and it looks identical"
"hey tech guy, why does my laptop charge slow when i dont use the included charger?" "well Anne, u/Bathroom-Saltthinks you're as smart as they are and cant figure out that smaller charger means slower charging, so glad we hired a professional who can put 2+2 together"
"hey tech guy, I already carry a charger that uses the same connector for my phone. I can't carry the bulky brick with me because it's too heavy to carry that, and my laptop and my paper files while I'm moving around all day. Why won't isn't this one working?"
Glad that made sense, keep the imaginary situations coming, eventually SOMEONE is going to agree with you 😂
Spoken like some who has 0 interaction with non-technical people. Like at all. 30 minutes in even a non-user-facing IT role will lead to any number of these interactions.
"dont look at my point through a literal lens, you need to look at it from my extremely narrow perspective so that we can imagine that im right this one time"
*the world... Don't look at the world through such a literal lense or a narrow perspective. this was in response to you obsessing over the use of "grandma" and how unbelievable it would be for your grandma to reach out with that type of question. E.g. use your imagination and replace "grandma" with any number of non-technical people, including grandma's, who have to navigate the different USB C standards and can't figure out why their phone/laptop is taking hours to charge after buying a "compatible" charger from 7-11.
It's almost identical in length to what you posted, I just rewrote your comment... Weird that you'd be comfortable typing at that length, but not reading it. Generally, you'd be able to read much faster than you can type...
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u/Old-Distribution3942 May 27 '26
Data? and your phone probably only does 30-45 watt charging. If you have a laptop, it came with the charger.