I have something similar, a hub with several USB slots and HDMI, but it drains the battery and gets insanely hot which annoys me. I don’t know if that’s a design flaw of this exact thingie or a general issue of these things

I have something similar, a hub with several USB slots and HDMI, but it drains the battery and gets insanely hot which annoys me. I don’t know if that’s a design flaw of this exact thingie or a general issue of these things

It seems like that’s the case (it’s an AOC CU34P2A), the USB-hub is already powered, but it seems data stream doesn’t go through HDMI output only. Sad.

Thanks, I think that’s it. That also means I can’t avoid using a dongle, because according to Apple, two USB-C slots are enough for everything, one is taken by the power, the another by the screen input. Damn.

Yes, that’s what I did. The screen is connected using a HDMI/USB-C cable, the mouse’s USB-A is plugged into the screen’s socket, and nothing.

…but then you’re not getting your computer in a cheese grater box!

…but then you’re not getting your computer in a cheese grater box!

tl;dw What is the use case for this? It seems like a desktop machine priced like a server, just without flexibility, or RAID