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..for the ATM machine.
Does it have an LCD display?
Department of Redundancy Department
^damnit
SMH my head
How to make the transition relatively painlessly:
- Buy a bunch of these, and tie one to the end of every USB C cable, now you only need USB C cables around.
- As you get more C-C cables, buy these for your existing USB A ports:
just be mindful of latency, so maybe you want to try a few
These are a passive component
You have to be mindful of the adapter standard to ensure you’re getting the data transfer speed you want, and from experience same standard usb adapters aren’t the same quality across makes
https://glidedigital.com/will-a-usb-c-to-usb-a-adapter-slow-down-my-data-transfer-speeds
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You guys have Micro!?
I'm still running stuff with Mini...
As a 51 year old guy with 51 year old eyes, I'd rather mini that micro. Mini isn't subtle.
Mini is much better. Micro is fragile and shitty, won't hold in after a while.
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Are you talking about the Micro-A plugs and receptacles, Micro-AB receptacles (which accept both Micro-A and Micro-B plugs), Double-Sided Micro USB, Micro-B plugs and receptacles, or 3.0 Micro-B SuperSpeed plugs and receptacles?
Yes.
Problem: There are 14 Competing micro-USB standards.
I was recently shopping for a Bluetooth speaker for the shower. At some point I realized that one of them used micro USB for power. Confused, I went back and looked at the others. More than half still used micro. Just... no.
And it still is terrible. I went in a recent road trip and at one point didn’t have a charger. It’s a newer iPhone and people don’t know what usb-c is, so I tried asking for an Android charger but got this crap instead
The lack of this basic type of knowledge in a plug people use every single day both astounds and disappoints me. Right down to people asking me if I have a charger for one of the new iPhones.
I know, right? You use these cables EVERY FUCKING DAY. There’s a ton of stuff people need to charge. And with the proliferation of USB-C, you’d think most people would at least know what that one is. But no. Most people have no clue that there’s even a difference between USB-C, -A, micro or a Lightning cable.
And when you ask people what plug they need they’ll tell you ‘oh it’s a Samsung’ or any other brand, like that’s supposed to narrow it down. It gets REALLY fun when someone needs something specific like a USB-C to Lightning or an A to C.
We really have regressed since the 90s. My generation grew up learning about these new cables and plugs, but everyone born since 1995 seems to have no fucking clue.
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yea. great. now we have a plug that looks the same but has a million different kinds of standards. hooray
Yeah like what do you mean I can’t use this cable to charge my VR headset? It’s usb c? Oh but that one is somehow more powerful and the other is weakling with no marking whatsoever? Fuck off
I have one tiny white super powerful usb c cable and all the other are weaklings. Some refuse to transfer files
If I take one of those unmarked losers on a trip just grabbing some random usb c cable I will have a bad time
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I would gladly take microusb over those magnetic pogo pins that they put on smartwatches and tablet keyboards, though.
I have an edc flashlight that I absolutely love, and it has a damned magnetic charger (way better type than the pogo pins) instead of a usb-c. Sure, it keeps it waterproof easier, but it sucks to have to use a proprietary plug that's useless for anything else and have to worry about losing it or not having it.
I'd buy the same light again, though. Nothing else as good out there.
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thank god I don't. everything I buy I make sure its USBC now
I have no reason to replace my current Kindle model, so I'm still using the one with a micro USB port
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USB-C MOD ALL THE THINGS!
Microusb has one feature over USBC. You can pull power from the pins without needing to solder a tiny 5kohm resistor to cc1 to tell the cable you want 5 volts.
You can buy connectors with a tiny PCB that already has it on.
I have never upvoted something so hard.
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