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[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

"Passive ability: Permanent USB tunneling" unlocked

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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.

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

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.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

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

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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

My superpower is that I can plug in USB A the right way up on the first try pretty much every time

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

In that case you could pay tuem for their USB A plug-in service.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Hell yeah. Then you just just buy a bunch of new USBs instead of sitting there turning it around four times!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What is ironic is I bought a USB switcher for using Keyboard, Mouse etc with 4 systems; it has the USB ports upside-down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Your USB switcher is the work of the devil.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Captain Dongle!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The upside is where is the USB symbol on the plug, easy.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You should get familiar with your own ports. You not gonna flip the ports

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

My old Lenovo tablet has the USB port upside down on the plug, and consequently, the micro USB also plugs into the tablet upside down. And for some reason, stupid thing always breaks the little notches on the micro USB, so you have to position everything in a way so that it won't slide out while charging.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Got it. USB plugs have spin 1/2

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Yes I swear both ends are blocked off until I look straight at it with both my eyes to unlock it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Most factual Lemmy post

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Looking at the connector fixes the positron & you can connect first try.

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nostalgia? This is something I still deal with every day. What future are you living in?

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

A lot of notebooks have only USB-C for years now.

But true, i have not seen C Bluetooth dongles yet.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Thanks for the laugh!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

You must spin it two times, not three.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can buy reversible USB cables online. The connector works in either direction. They're pretty neat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Wow! Can't believe it actually exists lol

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

No, no, no. This is all wrong. USB has a spin of 1/2.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Get a USB with a notch on the casing. Observe the orientation with your fingertips.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

look at the plug and look at the hole. Square peg square hole

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