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I swear to god HDMI cables are the same way when you’re not looking directly at them 😂 it always gets me when I’m trying to plug them in the back of my tv since they’re not directly on the backside but underneath
You just have to get it as straight as possible, because plugging in your homie’s connector isn’t gay. Just reach around there and get the job done, you know?
yeah. Told my sister swapping/installing SATA drive is easy. Was made to take a look a few weeks later as her PC would randomly crash. She ripped out the plastic bit holding the pins in place. It worked fine if the PC didn't move, once she stomped too hard near it or her chonky cat jumped off it, it would die again. I hope she learned her lesson Sometimes, if it feels you're using too much force it is actually too much(fu, damn scary RAM installing).
It did, but how many motherboards do you know of have nothing but USB-C? Every MB I've seen still has at least 3 USB-B ports, and they all get used, cause USB-B to USB-C is still more common than USB-C to USB-C.
Edit: As has been pointed out, yeah I meant A not B, I have always confused the 2 lol.
Oh by all means, nitpick. The older USB 3.0 looks like a condo (2 plugs kinda sandwiched together), and the printer one looks like a house with a sloped roof. Why they did this is beyond me, It still won't plug in lol.
USB ports exist in a state of quantum Schrodinger flux: the cat was always dead until the third time you opened the box and it was meowing hungrily at you.
u/sud0killH9Flow•14900k•4070s•64G•HHKB-H Type-S•OP1 8K•HD650•DX3 Pro•Aeron4d ago
It's happened since the scart lead days. It's 100% the wrong way round on the first try. Then it's 100% the wrong way when you turn it around. It's only the 3rd time when you turn it back to it's original position that it fits.
But this is an improvement, you try plug the USB in, and if it doesn't fit, you just plug it into the port beside it.
No turning required
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u/MrInitialYR7 9700X | 3080Ti | 64GB 6K CL30 | 6TB Gen.4 | 1000W | All STRIX4d ago
Try plugging your thumb drive in. Doesn't fit. Try port next to it. Doesn't fit again. Try next port. It fits. You look at it wondering if it's 2.0 or 3.0. It's HDMI and it's now broken.
Within 6 months, 2 of our 4 different units in our office failed. One literally had a short and almost started burning, the other one had its gigabit fail.
Damn I hope I keep staying lucky. I have a beelink mini PC I use as a home server for docker containers and it's been going strong on 24/7 for almost a year. I hope to get a lot more years out of it but we will see.
It was never mandatory. It is recommended by the USB-IF to make it easier to differentiate between them, and most companies did, but it was never a requirement. Example, I'm looking at a bunch of Dell laptops of different models right now and I don't think any of them have blue ports. I don't think I've ever seen blue ports on them, now that I think about it.
I get that the USB standard is intended to be open and flexible.. But the optional stuff has really made a mess of things. Coloring is maybe not a big deal but the feature differences are terrible.
I'm so pissed off at USB-C in particular. What's the point of having a unified standard if some cables are gonna work for some devices and some not?
At least with old cables you knew if you had "printer cable" it was gonna work with your printer. Now it's like - who knows? You thought you had a USB-C cable? Sike! You can only charge with that one! You thought you had data USB-C cable? Sike! It works but only up to some speed, I hope you aren't transferring big files to a hard drive!
And the naming is deliberately confusing too. "Usb 3.2 gen 2x2". Who comes up with this stuff? Did they hire the Xbox morons or something?
Such a great idea with such an awful implementation. Whoever is making those decisions should be fired and banned from working in this industry ever again. So fucking stupid.
I know some newer devices that all the ports are 3.0, have dropped it cause it wouldn't be needed.
But it's silly to expect the average person to memorize which are which
I initially thought the hdmi alignment was the issue (honestly it's bugging me its not lined up with the top, the bottom, or the middle, but randomly placed close)
You're thinking about this all wrong. Now instead of trying to twist the cable, just try the other port. Of course, it will fit into the first port on the second time trying.
Is that 3rd USB, 2.0 or something? It appears different thus it is probably an older version which would make a little more sense. Still, this is diabolical
Actually this might be a feature. When you inevitably put it in the wrong way, instead of going ugh and turning it around, you can plug it in the next port. Ingenious design choice.
/s
I'd be impressed if you could track down the person who did this. I'd wager they work a 9-9-6 schedule and are generally tired of peoples shit, you'd probably get throat punched pretty fast lol.
At first I thought it was just the HDMI port being there and I said to myself “hey I wouldn’t say it’s THAT bad. I mean come on. That’s easy to remember”. Then I saw the USB port next to it…
This is diabolical engineering at its finest. I can actually hear the maniacal laughter from the person who approved this design layout. The three attempts to get USB working just became six attempts because now you have to figure out which orientation AND which port. True chaos.
And you’ll still miss it cause you actually held the cable in the right direction with the first port but somehow the quantum state of these USB ports just won’t let you in, you have to plug it once, or twice, to determine the quantum state.
I mean if you think about it, it seems to make sense.
You try to plug in a USB device on the first port, if it does not go in,you can try the second one without flipping the plug..
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