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USB-A, FireWire and that video output converged to Thunderbolt, which also means I can connect several displays to e.g. a 2021 MacBook Pro. The separate headphones and microphone jacks got merged as well. After the whole Touch Bar brouhaha, the card reader and HDMI also made their return.

So the one connector we did lose is Ethernet. Which, to be fair, is a bummer indeed. Luckily, we can easily push a Gigabit over Wi-Fi nowadays.

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vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
You can push Gigabit Ethernet through USB-C too, so a single USB-C connection will likely be our future port allowance 😇

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- errer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It’s a bummer you really have to mash the RJ45 into the USB-C port now, totally ruins the connector in my experience, but I guess that’s the price of progress.
  
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  - vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    … together with power, bidirectional audio, external display, storage and potentially human interface hardware like keyboard, tablet and mouse, not to mention plenty of other devices, smart or otherwise.
    
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ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Copium…

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ebolapie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
you can push a gig over wifi now, but what’s that going to cost you?

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- evujumenuk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I don’t know, since I didn’t have to specifically buy anything to get that throughput. So, in my case, it cost me nothing.
  
  It was just an ISP-provided router and an older Mac Studio. I didn’t check but there’s a good chance the wireless link actually supports even higher bandwidth; at the time, I was bottlenecked by the 1 Gbps connection to my ISP.
  
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