The ladt couple of years I've likewise come to the conclusion that faulty cables can cause some nasty annoyances and headaches, not easy to solve unless you know that a cable can be faulty .. 😵💫
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It seems to be far more common than I'd expect had I not seen evidence to the contrary. I mean, it's a wire.
Humans have been making wires for a while now and I feel like if my speaker wire never goes bad, then my USB wires should not go bad either!