going back in time to the original USB committee meetings. I'm gonna appear out of a portal, wearing an eyepatch and a dozen scars, and yell at them to explicitly forbid power-only USB cables before collapsing into a heap of dust on the floor
It's strange how power-only USB cables seem to be prone to spontaneously developing cuts in them
actually I want to see a spec mention this.
like "You shouldn't ever build cables like this. we don't know why not, exactly, but when we considered allowing it, somebody from the future showed up and told us not to, before dying horribly from Time Sickness"
