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		vetinari on April 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The day Windows died > USB serial port working in Windows The whole FTDI hoopla happened only because FTDI serial driver was the only one shipped with Windows, so only one that was really plug and play.

Gordonjcp on April 3, 2023 [–]

It's not even FTDI, it's any of them.

And if you plug it into a different socket, it has to go on the Internet to find the driver all over again.

Janky.

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