• Taleya@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    Ooof be careful. A lot of switches got fried by aftermarket docks back in the day, they use specific voltage and amperage

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      4 months ago

      It straight up didn’t work and she’s brought it in since. It’s more that I could bring something like the Bazztop in and it would just work with any of the docks, but the switch needs its own shit to be able to run. I thought USB-C was meant to be a universal standard

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        4 months ago

        It’s not the usb C per se, it needs the ac adapter (in the dock) to give the gpu enough balls.

        Most tv/monitor USB ports don’t run enough voltage / amperage to power it

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          4 months ago

          You’d think a dock that can run a big fat Dell laptop and two monitors could power a Switch, but those docks often have their own processors which could throw things off a bit.

          • Taleya@aussie.zone
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            4 months ago

            Proprietary as fuck my friend. My dell dock cracks it if i plug my other one in, despite both being USB-C