It won't tell you the _quality_

It just tell you want the e-marker said.

Thunderbolt 4 passive (over usb) is 0.8m in length, longer cables are active, up to two meters I think, so they do exist.

How do you define "thick" or "short" to a non-engineer/tech person? Relative to what exactly?

Great, and what about non-Thunderbolt cables? How do I distinguish between power only, USB 2, USB 2+PD, and USB 3.2 cables? I've got a whole pile of cables that, without my Treedix tester, are indistinguishable re: functionality and support.

What does it mean to be ‘upside down’ if the connector handles both orientations?

I wasn't either (insomuch as I had never thought about it), but it makes sense if you think about it for a second. If you have one end plugged in one way, and the other end plugged in the other way, each individual wire is flipped from where it should be. The fact that you _can_ plug it in either way means that the device on one end needs to be capable of recognizing that and logically reversing it. Same as automatic crossover in Ethernet.

That's all the program is telling you. It doesn't matter that it's backwards, but technically it is.

This has been fixed now, apologies.

TIL, and they look great indeed. Shame they are all sold out except for <= 0.3m lengths. https://global.lttstore.com/products/ltt-truespec-cable-usb-...

You mean LTT ?

Everyone knows you have to flip the USB cable twice before it’s no longer upside down.

And it's been updated, with full releases, many times since.

I like this tool, but I agree that it was rushed and it is still being rushed. I urge the developer to slow down and get it right.

Just because it got pushed 2h ago it doesn't mean they didn't test it on their end.