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

In alt.comp.hardware, on Mon, 27 Dec 2021 09:44:07 -0500, bad sector
<forgetski@postit_INVALID_.gov> wrote:

>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.

My hardware is pretty standard, but about half of my questions are
oddball.   I can't help it.