USB-C roulette is real, and only some of your ports are actually fast

You’d think plugging a cable into a port would be effortless by now. After all, we’ve spent decades perfecting USB in all its evolving shapes and sizes. Yet somehow, USB-C has managed to turn what should be straightforward into something closer to a guessing game. Two ports can look identical, sit neatly side by side on the same polished laptop, and still behave like entirely different species.