This is a development kit, so the transmitted signals / pinout could have nothing in common with regular usb-c and they just needed more lanes than one usb-c cable can provide, leading them to develop this monstrosity.

Similar to the PCIe extenders that use USB3 male to male or HDMI as their connector / cable.

In other news, there are also efforts from a lot of chinese companies to establish the GPMI connector, aka. wide boi usb-c.

The Samsung Galaxy S5 lineup was wild:

There’s an app for that: https://github.com/zacharee/Tweaker

You’ll need to use adb to grant special permissions that an app can’t request on its own.

adb shell pm grant com.zacharee1.systemuituner android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS
adb shell pm grant com.zacharee1.systemuituner android.permission.PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS
adb shell pm grant com.zacharee1.systemuituner android.permission.DUMP

• Audio & Sound --> Disable Safe Audio Warning --> Disabled
• Persist Options --> Checkbox Disable Safe Audio Warning