alt Hacker NewsYup. I have a work laptop that is meant to charge via USB ... But only one of the two ports will charge ... They are right beside each other! An evil trick at the office is to move someone's USB cable from one port to the other.
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PunchyHamster • today at 11:12 AM
Mine work at both but connecting dock to different port re-names every monitor output
benj111 • today at 9:23 AM
Of course there's also the issue of whether your cable is suitable and your charger suitable too.
We appear to have taken a good idea and made it shit very quickly.
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i_am_a_peasant • today at 9:21 AM
thinkpad?
Not exactly the same situation but some older MacBooks had an issue where you had to charge from one side of the laptop and not the other. Technically, the wrong side would charge it just fine but it would also make the computer quickly overheat and throttle until it was unusable, frozen or until it crashed.