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These things don't seem to last very long, do they? (infosec.pub)
submitted 3 days ago by tetris11@feddit.uk to c/casualuk@feddit.uk
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I have three of these I've collected over the last 3 years, and none of them work anymore.

Is this the new USB-C future we were promised? With a single-point of failure for everything as the number of ports on laptop decreases year-on-year?

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[–] cloudless@piefed.social 17 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Dell docking stations seem to last forever, but are very expensive.

[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I was gonna say, Dell makes a ton of crap but their dongles are solid. I've been using the DA310 "puck" for over half a decade and it still works like new. I think they're like 50 quid.

The other thing is to just avoid those no-name Amazon ones like the fucking plague. I've worked IT long enough to know that they pretty much all die within a year, that is if they function at all.

[–] Quatlicopatlix@feddit.org 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

No absolutly not, dells docking stations are the worst crap ever. We exclusivly have dell at work and these things are so super unreliable. Every time they do a software update something breaks. I had 3 seperate stations that stopped charging randomly and lost the video signal on random. My colleges dock started its fan up on 100 for no reason sometimes after one specific softeware update but no new version fixed that.

The one in your picture is fine, it cant charge and the usbc cable is a little short but it works for now. But id rather buy any other product than something from dell.

[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sorry- yeah I meant the dongles, not the docks. And yeah, no passthrough power on the puck either.

I've had similar experiences as you with the docks, lol.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

I found the docks had their flaws, but on the whole they were a decent proposition, especially when sourced second hand.
We did find that for units that the fans went mad on (1 in 20 or so), taking them apart, checking the fan connector, and removing the bottom rubber fixed it.

The power-off-frames bug is infuriating. Thankfully, any decent managed switch prevents it.

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