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spencer_ross
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3d ago
Switched my shop's charging drawer from a tangled mess of 6 random USB-C cables to 2 braided ones and the dead-port rate dropped from half to almost zero in 5 weeks
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karenw90
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6d ago
Spent 3 hours chasing a bad charge on my Pixel 7a when it was a $6 cable the whole time
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the_oliver
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7d ago
Bought a '100W' USB-C cable off Amazon for $9 and my laptop charged at 12W, so I cut it open
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theawest
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7d ago
Dropped $35 on a gas station USB-C cable in Des Moines and it died in 3 weeks
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evan151
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8d ago
My Anker 737 power bank died at 8 months, and the airport kiosk charger cost me $19 to get home
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nelson.finley
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8d ago
Lost 3 USB-C cables in one week and my phone slid off a Phoenix bar top because of it
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mason361
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10d ago
A guy at the Phoenix airport counter handed me a free USB-C cable and it killed my power bank in 2 weeks
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linda_butler28
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13d ago
Warning: my brother in law swore I needed a 100W brick for my phone, here's what actually happened
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uma_reed26
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14d ago
Thought the $6 multimeter from Harbor Freight was junk, then it found my loose USB-C ground
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cole_bailey85
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14d ago
Why does nobody talk about how a $7 Amazon cable almost cooked my power bank in Tulsa?
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nathan_bailey
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16d ago
Bought a $9 gas station USB-C cable as a joke for a 14 hour haul, it outlasted my $30 one
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joelsanchez
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17d ago
Appreciation post: the little rubber band trick that stopped my USB-C cable from falling out of my phone
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jesse_barnes37
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20d ago
Pro tip: stop yanking cords out by the cable, my last one died in 3 weeks
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lisa839
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20d ago
Serious question, why did my $25 gas station USB-C cable outlast the $40 one from the phone store?
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the_james
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22d ago
Can we talk about how my $25 '100W' cable only pushed 18W and I trusted the listing like a chump
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