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recable is handmade for you in Merseburg. We only produce what is in demand to avoid electrical waste. We source all individual parts from within a 500 km radius - with the exception of the plugs. Our COโ‚‚ footprint is about half that of standard USB cables. You can read more about this here.

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[โ€“] Tweak@feddit.uk 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We do actually need more of this, non-Chinese cable manufacture. USB cables these days contain microcontrollers (to negotiate charging power, it's not just between the device and charger anymore but a 3-way decision including the cable) and these microcontrollers can have all sorts of dodgy functionality on top - but are still indistinguishable through most inspection methods. Such functionality can include wifi hotpots allowing remote configuration and script injectors to hack devices plugged in.

This problem is so significant that Microsoft changed how Windows handles USB devices and made many existing USB to RS232 serial leads non-functional in Windows 11.

However โ‚ฌ25 for a single 1m USB A to C cable is insane. That would be like โ‚ฌ3 on Amazon or eBay.

[โ€“] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

Lets remember that these Cables do not say anything about their Specs, so they may as well just be usb 1 cables without anything