You can buy reversible USB cables online. The connector works in either direction. They’re pretty neat.
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That actually explain quite a lot.
I firmly believe that rather than superpositional, these are 11 dimensional. It doesn’t matter which direction you rotate it, it will still take you on average five or six 180° rotations until it fits into the damned slot.
The upside is where is the USB symbol on the plug, easy.
That may help in the case of a properly installed usb port, but what if the port is upside down? Or what if it’s a vertical port? Is upside left or right?
You should get familiar with your own ports. You not gonna flip the ports
Not talking about my ports. Also ports can be installed the wrong way by the manufacturer. I had a pc case that the front usb ports upside down. But again, usb ports can be installed vertically, in which case it won’t matter if you know which is up or down your usb plug, because now it’s left or right
I mean, if your manufacturer installed USB ports the wrong way, you have to get familiar to know which direction the ports face(the wrong way if ports are wrong), then you only have to see the usb since you already know the ports
What about the back of your tv? Or friend’s PC? Or library computer? Or phone charger? Or… Any other Universal device using the Universal Serial Bus…
You may learn YOUR devices, but you may also have to interact with other devices at times and USB didn’t make it easy in the past.
Now, type C is a thing and it helps with plugging it in right the first time, but that one has the HUGE issue with allowing any protocol since USB 1.0 and everyrhing else is optional. So even though you can plug a type C monitor into a type C microphone, nothing will happen, so it’s not stupid proof anymore.
True, but rare. Back of your TV? You’ll defenitely see it while plugging in because you wouldn’t even know where the ports are otherwise. Other’s devices don’t work but you still can flip it three times since thats rare
I love how everyone is trying make up some ‘logical system’ or magical thinking about the completely arbitrary and random nature of the problem.
It’s not like there’s a big hairy USB god in the clouds who is going listen to all your jibber-jabber or that there’s some hidden alchemical formula that will turn the wrongly oriented USB connection into the golden correct orientation everytime.
It’s all bullshit. I don’t care if you are offended. It’s not the Bronze Age anymore. Just grow up and look at your damn USB connector, and then the socket.
SCIENCE, BITCH.
No, no, no. This is all wrong. USB has a spin of 1/2.
spin it two times*
Upvote for the nostalgia.
Nostalgia? This is something I still deal with every day. What future are you living in?
A lot of notebooks have only USB-C for years now.
But true, i have not seen C Bluetooth dongles yet.
when are we gonna get a barrel styled USB connector its clearly infinitely better than a USB c connector
Yes I swear both ends are blocked off until I look straight at it with both my eyes to unlock it.
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You must spin it two times, not three.
I think this kind of meme is the same thing as people who pretend to hate the word “moist.”
now what do you mean by that
Boring pop culture opinions that nobody actually likes but which wear the cadence of interesting content so people unthinkingly clap along out of habit even though nobody is actually edified by it or sincerely enjoying it.
USB devices just not fitting the damn slot is an all too common issue, and it normally takes me 2-3 rotations to finally insert it if I’m not actively looking.
I’ve been preaching this about “moist” for years. I genuinely haven’t found anyone with an aversion to it who disliked the word before dislike of it became a part of the cultural fabric.
You, my friend, are 100% correct in your take on the topic.
My superpower is that I can plug in USB A the right way up on the first try pretty much every time
What is ironic is I bought a USB switcher for using Keyboard, Mouse etc with 4 systems; it has the USB ports upside-down.
Your USB switcher is the work of the devil.
While I’m extremely envious of you, if I had the opportunity to choose one superpower, there are probably a million others I’d choose before that one haha
like a superpower that gives me exactly as much money as I need at any given moment anytime I need it.
Hell yeah. Then you just just buy a bunch of new USBs instead of sitting there turning it around four times!
In that case you could pay tuem for their USB A plug-in service.
Got it. USB plugs have spin 1/2
One day I realized I developed a skill for correctly inserting the USB on first try and I’m in an existential crisis ever since.
“Passive ability: Permanent USB tunneling” unlocked
The “empty” half of the plug (with the two hollow squares) is either at the top or on the right in 99% of receptacles. Once you realize that you barely ever have to flip it even one time.
Part of the reasoning is that dust can’t really settle on the contacts if they are facing down. It’s the same for the most part with rj45 (ethernet) ports.
Do you mean the empty half of the cable? Because the plug itself has the empty half on the bottom.
Usually easier to look for the USB logo or company’s branded logo on top. The bottom is usually blank or containing legal info. The bottom also has the zig-zaggy join in the metal.
Yeah they’re talking about the cable, as that’s usually easier to look at. Also a plug is on the cable, and a socket is on devices.
Also a plug is on the cable
Maybe this is an American English thing, because to me the plug is the socket. The two words are synonyms. Like I’d talk about the electricity plug in the wall.
Americans often call the wall plate the plugs, but technically in electeical hardware ordering catalogs the wall end is a female receptacle, and the cord end is a male plug
Could be, though I’ve heard people use plug interchangeably.
Connections for data, the female side is usually called a port; for electrical, it’s officially called a receptacle, though more commonly called an outlet or sometimes a socket. The male side is always the plug.
I’m European but I’m an English second language speaker, so that may be the reason I use this words that way. However wikipedia for example calls the male part the plug and the female the receptacle as well
