Re: Is a USB cable for data, or only power; how to tell without testing it?

On 12/25/21 20:22, micky wrote:
> In alt.comp.hardware, on Mon, 20 Dec 2021 18:04:37 -0500, bad sector
> <forgetski@postit_INVALID_.gov> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/18/21 11:11 PM, micky wrote:
>>
>>> The flashdrive had over 600 songs. It didn't do the sorting so the car
>>> radio must have done it.  Why?   And where is the logic to do the
>>> sorting?   And what other kinds of logic does the car radio have, that
>>> we don't know about?  
>> After listening to the car radio for about 15 minutes one 
>> night on my way home from work I hit the brakes and pulled 
>> off because I absolutely wanted to note the FM frequency 
>> and the exact time so as to allow me to look up the program 
>> later. Man, that DJ had my taste in everything! As I looked 
>> closer I realized that it was one of my own tapes!  ..true story,
>> probably not very original  :-)
> 
> On at least 3 occasions I've googled technical problems and found a link
> on just the right topic.  Once it took me 10 lines to realize it was a
> post I'd written 10 years earlier.  

been there a couple of times but it seldom helps; EXCEPT that 
I also realised that the reason my posts were not getting many 
resolving responses was that I was using oddball hardware.
I spend a lot more time now on avoiding unproven or windows-only
bundleware for example.