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Some basic info about USB (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It’s useful but it got me even more lost 😅

So many different standards my god.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I've never seen the one enclosed in a battery, but I've seen the rest.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The superiority of german aryan ports proven once again.

(this is a joke, nazism is evil and I hate it)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

yet all I needed is a "this side up" symbol ...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, I didn't really have an issue with USB type A ports. They worked fine, and it was only a minor inconvenience to orient them the right way. I cared far more about capabilities of the port (speed, power delivery, etc) than I did about the actual port.

That said, micro-USB sucks in every way. The awkward "is this the right way?" thing is way worse than with USB-A, it's not meaningfully smaller than mini-USB, the port is incredibly hard to clean (and it always gets dirty), and the connector seems to break all the time. I would've been totally fine with moving everything to mini-USB instead. The connector was less flimsy without being that much bigger, and it had room for more wires.