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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 20:18:30 +0000
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On 11/03/2025 20:00, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> I very rarely watch youtube videos in browser, preferring instead to
> take links and download with yt-dlp to watch with mplayer. But sometimes
> I'll be on a page with an embeded youtube video and click the play
> button. Promptly my USB hub (and thus mouse) gets knocked off-line.
> 
That is weird.

> Hardware: Surface Go 2 (which has only one USB port, hence hub)
> Browser: Firefox, true for multiple versions over the last year
> Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS
> Kernel: 5.12.14-surface, with Surface specific hardware mods
> X11 configured to use Icewm instead of whatever Ubuntu has as default
> Hub is "uni" branded USB-C to 4 x USB3 A ports; IDs as "Generic":

I would suspect the hub. Friend came over a few weeks back because his 
Pi wouldn't read a a USB SSD.

Read mine fine. Went back and changed hubs and it worked. My conclusion 
was that there are a lot of cheap hubs out there.

Is the hub separately  powered?

When Firefox is playing videos the power consumption will increase. I(t 
may be that if the hub isn't powered, the computers power supply simply 
cannot cope...

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