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.
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The "empty" half of the plug (with the two hollow squares) is either at the top or on the right in 99% of cases. Once you realize that you barely ever have to flip it even one time.
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.
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.
USB has the female side on the cable :)
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
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
Exactly
Plug is on the male part on the cable. Receptacle is the female part on the device
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.
The irony is the USB keyboard- mouse -peripheral switcher I bought has the USB ports upside-down from normal
My superpower is that I can plug in USB A the right way up on the first try pretty much every time
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.
In that case you could pay tuem for their USB A plug-in service.
Hell yeah. Then you just just buy a bunch of new USBs instead of sitting there turning it around four times!
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.
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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
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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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Got it. USB plugs have spin 1/2
Looking at the connector fixes the positron & you can connect first try.
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
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Thanks for the laugh!
Here's the way: look at the little "crack" on the middle of the plug on one side (the vast vast vast majority have one) – that should be facing down. I haven't used a vertical plug in a while but I think it faces left there.
For the forsaken anguish of God, microUSB, it's reversed, so crack up.
This post cracked me up!
But seriously, this is the way. Works even when the cable wasn't properly marked with a USB symbol.
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.
You must spin it two times, not three.
So that's why I can't plug it in without looking
That actually explain quite a lot.
You can buy reversible USB cables online. The connector works in either direction. They're pretty neat.
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No, no, no. This is all wrong. USB has a spin of 1/2.
heheh, it has teeth
Get a USB with a notch on the casing. Observe the orientation with your fingertips.
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