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If their response is to put aside money to pay the fine instead of actually stopping doing the illegal thing, the billion dollar fines are obviously still not big enough.

It's been 30 years and jokes about Windows expanding to fill available space still work.

Yeah, but because pricing jumped like someone set a firecracker off under it's chair people are actually still using vintage GPUs.

Whatever compromise anyone tries to come up with will be ignored and exploited as hard as advertisers possibly can.

A compromise that actually works would depend on advertisers actually complying. The advertisers that do will be vastly outnumbered by the advertisers that don't.

So we're getting the arms race either way.

QC 2.0 is proprietary but it would probably still be identified as a device on a standard USB port. For $2 it's probably worth giving one a try, anyway.

Looking at the PD spec I got the impression devices are supposed to pull the D+ pin up to a certain voltage, but I got lost partway through.

OP asked for the easiest way and deciphering the spec docs probably isn't it.

One of the QC 2.0 type-A trigger boards?

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006449224730.html

So they're YouTube, but with no video controls. Awesome.

I'm not interested in my computer striking a balance between my needs and the needs of people seeking to manipulate me into buying things.

I paid for my computer, it serves my needs. Yes I do run Linux, how did you guess?

Nobody went and flipped the breaker for the jacuzzi? People like that obviously need practice dealing with inconveniences.

The devs have been working hard to hammer out those troublesome edge cases. There's a lot less of them than there was a year or two ago.

IIRC Nvidia needs explicit sync support to work reliably. It's fairly new and might not have landed in some distros, especially the stable releases.