Mac M1 give me this error, when connecting to a thunderbolt port - "cannot use thunderbolt accessory"

I have two usb-c devices:

a monitor at work: Samsung LS32AM702UNXZA

a dock at home. startech tb3dock2dppd

Every time I get home from work, I plugin into my home dock I get the "cannot use thunderbolt accessory. Connect accessory to a thunderbolt port on this mac", and have found that rebooting is the only way to get it to work. It's plugged into the thunderbolt port, and it returns to functioning by rebooting.

Work around includes plugging into the other port. Which is a bad user experience.

Is there a way to not reboot every time?

Read this article:

If a Thunderbolt device doesn’t work with Mac - Apple Support (GE)

describes many steps that don't work, except the reboot.

Someone else pointed to this article, which seems to indicate that the usb-c port configures itself to one configuration when I plug into the monitor, but when I plug into the dock, it's incapable of reconfiguration.

also read this article - and quote it below.

cannot use thunderbolt accessory - Apple Community

http://www.usb.org/developers/usbtypec/USB_Type-C_Language_Product_and_Packaging _Guidelines_FINAL.pdf

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The ports on newer Macs are capable of many different interfaces. The first cable you attach customizes the interface into a specific subset of all it can do. (why does unplugging it not release that subset, but rebooting does?)

To use ThunderBolt devices, you must do that customization with a ThunderBolt cable. Others will not have all the wiring needed to support ThunderBolt. (example: the Mac charging cable plugs into that port, but supports ONLY charging or USB-2, and nothing more.)