Post #1694641

2026-04-19 06:49 UTC

USB-C is great about 80% of the time and yet somehow I have ended up with some seriously cursed things happening. Three years ago our IT department supplied me with a Dell laptop and a Philips USB-C monitor. Initially I couldn’t get the monitor to accept video from the laptop. Quite a lot of work from IT later we discovered that disabling Thunderbolt in the laptop BIOS solved the problem.

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@drmikepj@mastodon.social 2026-04-19 06:50

Then, one day, we plugged a colleague’s HP laptop into my monitor and once I returned to my laptop again, the video again stopped working. I had a spare Caldigit USB-C dock lying around and switched to using that, feeding the monitor via HDMI from the dock.

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@misingtale@mastodon.social 2026-04-19 16:46

@drmikepj I have Lenovo laptop and it was working fine with Lenovo dock until a security update stopped the second monitor from working. Switching to an older dell dock I get both monitors ( occasionally have to replug if it goes into sleep mode) but an annoying message saying it's not charging fast enough. I'm not sure how much of the issue is hardware and how much is drivers manufacturers trying to force you use their own hardware. It's not the utopia though.

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