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Discussion Thread 🪷 Wednesday 8 April 2026 (aussie.zone)

submitted 6 days ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's not the usb C per se, it needs the ac adapter (in the dock) to give the gpu enough balls

[–] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You'd think a dock that can run a big fat Dell laptop and two monitors could power a Switch, but those docks often have their own processors which could throw things off a bit.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago

Proprietary as fuck my friend. My dell dock cracks it if i plug my other one in, despite both being USB-C