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Yesterdays USB-C<->C cable mystery boils down to buggy/missing thunderbolt support on the (qualcomm arm) linux hosts; on an old cable that doesn't support thunderbolt it doesn't cause a problem - on a spangly new cable it triggers the thunderbolt path.
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