this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2023
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is for external hard drives, the same ones that plug into Macs......

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That is micro-USB 3.0 and it’s an annoying connector that now is just as obsolete as micro-USB 2.0 and for some reason, around 2014, sone smartphone manufacturers thought it was a good idea adding it on their phones. Didn’t last long and got replaced by normal micro-USB again (which is much worse than lightning imo).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My Samsung S5 had one of those. You could just put a normal micro USB cable in them to charge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's for devices that require more power usually, many external harddrive/ssd cases still use them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yea, and since usb-c there’s no reason why. Micro b 3 is worse in every way