>>2936585
> crackling
> wear
Behold. The optical 3.5 mm jack.

>>106099355
We’re moving (back to) to this, instead:
Optical 3.5 mm “headphone” jacks.
Supplies power.
Copper good enough for HD video.
100 Gb/s optical data in the tip.
MIDI
35 times more robust/durability than USB C.
You can use your grandfather’s cables that you inherited.
Cheaper to manufacture.
Doesn’t need 24 fucking wires like USB C (it’s more of a parallel port now, isn’t it?)
No DRM.
You don’t have to swipe your payment card over both cable ends to transfer data.
The government can’t remotely disable your 3.5 mm Jack.

>>105812662
Oh.
The 3.5 mm jack supports video, too, so we’re talking around 1 to 3 GHz.
Some apple devices support an optical receiver/transmitter at the end of the jack like Toslink. And actual toslink. Which, if you use for networking, is in the 10 GHz range.

It’s the ONLY port we ever needed.