India is following EU's footsteps. Per a report by Livemint, policymakers in India are about to enforce USB-C connectors on all smartphones and laptops....
  • jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    3 months ago

    When will they mandate stopping scam calls and stealing databases full of offshored data?

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      35·
      3 months ago

      They already are illegal. The problem is the police are corrupt and they’re bought off, and the central government doesn’t really care that much, so they don’t do anything about it.

      If you actually report these people sometimes they do get arrested, it just depends on who the chief of police in that area is. There’s a reason they’re all in the same part of India and it’s because the police in that area have been bought off.

        • NutWrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          Yup. With VOIP, you can spoof any phone number. If this technology were fixed, 99% of spam calls would disappear, and Caller ID would be worth something again. Our government is either too lazy or bought-off to fix this problem.

          They DID enact the national Do Not Call list and created heavy fines for people who violate that list, while knowing full well that they couldn’t catch the spammers in the first place (because of VOIP spoofing).

      • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        There’s a reason they’re all in the same part of India and it’s because the police in that area have been bought off.

        It’s Kolkata right? That’s the sense I get from watching anti scammer YouTubers like Jim Browning.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          Yeah, there was a BBC documentary with him in it, and they actually demonstrate this. Various scammers are arrested and even sentenced, and then for some totally innocent reason a mistrial gets called, and it all has to go to trial again, and surprise surprise in the intervening time the police have managed to lose all of the evidence.

          The only good thing about that whole case was that when they were arrested the scammers faces were broadcast all over national television in both India and the UK. Not that been shown in the UK will do everything, but I’m sure they don’t have a great time in India because the locals hate them. Oh and also when the police are showing off their scammers, for some reason they make them hold hands with the police. It’s really funny how unhappy they look about it.

  • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    Can’t wait until USB-D is the standard and these dumb areas countries are stuck using outdated devices because someone mandated a technology that will go obsolete faster than the law can be changed.

    • Tiger Jerusalem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      3 months ago

      Ah yes, let’s go back to that amazing time of pure innovation where every fucking company had their own connector standard for data, power and audio. Good times.

        • Thekingoflorda@lemmy.worldEnglish
          19·
          3 months ago

          Previous connectors had inherent flaws. The USB-C connector is sturdy, is easy to use etc. But even if we had made the micro-usb connector the only legal connector, it wouldn’t have been the end of the world. Existing standards can be improved instead of making new shapes each time.

        • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
          10·
          3 months ago

          A and B are the original, used for host and device sides, respectively. C is the same on both ends of the cable because figures there’s device classes which can sensibly act as both, in particular phones. It’s also the most modern of the bunch supporting higher data transfer and power delivery rates because back in the days where A and B where designed people were thinking about connecting mice and keyboards, not 8k monitors or kWhs worth of lithium batteries.

          The whole mini/micro shennanigans are alternative B types and quite deeply flawed, mechanically speaking.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      19·
      3 months ago

      Your comprehension of this technology is so limited that you actually think that’s how it works.

      The letter simply indicates that the physical wiring in the cable is different to a previous iteration of the USB standard. There isn’t a great deal of reason that they would change that now it has a pretty good potential for energy transfer and high data transfer speeds. In 15 years they might be looking at changing it but not any time soon.

      Usb and B came out at the same time in the '90s for god’s sake.

        • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          12·
          3 months ago

          With 7 years of active use, USB-C is already 25% of the way there then.

          Once you actually start using devices that fully utilize all that USB-C has to offer, there is no going back. Getting lots of Power Delivery, Display, Networking and enough bandwidth for other USB devices all over one cable is just so good. At work i just walk up to any monitor, which will have all the necessary stuff attached, plug in one cable to my laptop and im good to go.

          • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            3 months ago

            I resorted to splitting everything because I was burning docks, so now I’ve got four plugs taken on my laptop: a small USBC dock for one HDMI and power, one regular HDMI, one USBC to HDMI and one USBA for a four USBA hub… Which sucks because one USBC is able to handle all my needs, the docks are just shit…

    • The Octonaut@mander.xyzEnglish
      15·
      3 months ago

      Some of us live in functioning democracies where “switch to USB-D” won’t come with an “it’s illegal to give your son a name that wasn’t previous a job title” attachment.