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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 86 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 46 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 37 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Hominine@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Does it have an LCD display?

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Department of Redundancy Department

[–] glnpf148@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Preferably at 10 AM in the morning

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[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

SMH my head

[–] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 3 months ago (3 children)

You think it couldn’t get any worse than that…until you have to interact with micro HDMI

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 38 points 3 months ago (5 children)

How to make the transition relatively painlessly:

  1. Buy a bunch of these, and tie one to the end of every USB C cable, now you only need USB C cables around.

  1. As you get more C-C cables, buy these for your existing USB A ports:

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (5 children)

just be mindful of latency, so maybe you want to try a few

[–] numanair@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

These are a passive component

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

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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[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago (14 children)

You guys have Micro!?

I'm still running stuff with Mini...

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 23 points 3 months ago

As a 51 year old guy with 51 year old eyes, I'd rather mini that micro. Mini isn't subtle.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Mini is much better. Micro is fragile and shitty, won't hold in after a while.

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[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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?

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Problem: There are 14 Competing micro-USB standards.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 22 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

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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[–] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (4 children)

yea. great. now we have a plug that looks the same but has a million different kinds of standards. hooray

[–] Emmie@lemmings.world 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

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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[–] drathvedro@lemm.ee 16 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I would gladly take microusb over those magnetic pogo pins that they put on smartwatches and tablet keyboards, though.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is my life rn. I beg for universal USB C.

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

You can buy connectors with a tiny PCB that already has it on.

[–] tacofox@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago

USB-C MOD ALL THE THINGS!

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 points 3 months ago

I have never upvoted something so hard.

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’m looking at you, RaspberryPi Pico2…

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 8 points 3 months ago

That's not so bad. I have a few Arduinos with the square USB type B ports...

[–] Steak@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

Fuck those things man

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