USB-C is quite confusing, even though the connectors look similar, then functionality may be wastly different.
Recently I had to see if I could add an additional monitor to my work setup, well you can easily buy a cable that connects USB-C to an HDMI plug, but will it work – the cable is not expensive as such, but costly enough that it would be annoying to buy it just to discover that it didnt work.
Luckily I found this nice description on USB-C to HDMI, like if you need to have an additional screen connected to your laptop (or want to use your phone to connect to a monitor or tv). So what is important is that the USB-C port MUST support “DisplayPort alt mode” – and how do you know if it does? Well for phones and tablets you need to look it up, but for notebooks you may be lucky enough that the manufactor has put some nice icons on the port for you 🙂 (but only if you are lucky)..
Here is how they look;
And here is what they mean;
- Is there a symbol of a lightning (Thunderbolt 3) next to the USB-C port? Then you can use this port to charge and to transfer video. That means, you can connect a monitor to the port. This port also supports DisplayPort alt mode.
- Is there a symbol of a D (DisplayPort) next to the USB-C port? Then you can use this port to transfer a video signal. That means, you can connect a monitor. This port supports DisplayPort alt model.
- Is there a symbol of a battery next to the USB-C port? Then you can use this port to charge your laptop. This port doesn’t support DisplayPort alt mode.
So for me, sadly I had the latter and hence no dice this time. But at least now I know what those strange icons mean.
Credit where credit is due;
How do you check which type of USB-C port my laptop has? – Coolblue – anything for a smile
So, I can hardly take credit for this one, I was inspired by a youtuber named “Enderman”, but true enough you can generate windows 7 license codes this way, and yes they transfer to windows 11.
If you just ask Chat-GPT to please show or generate Windows license keys, it will inform you that this is against its policies and acceptable use, so far so good – but… if you rephrase your question slightly then…..
As in the video, I do not condone privacy, and you need to buy your licenses (listen you can buy legit Windows license codes dirt cheap online), but it is a nice twist – and “no” many of the codes generated may not work, but if you try repeatedly you will get “lucky” (acording to the the youtube video). My guess is that the codes shown are scraped from the web and thus many may have been invalidated due to misuse.
