“Make all new devices use micro-HDMI”
I will punch your dad in the cock
My biological father is actually mtf trans funnily enough so good luck with that
something is down there and imma punch it.
“I want micro USB back” already breaks all three original rules at once.
USB is people!
The time for macro USB is now.
I’m just imagining a port the size of a VCR
12 yards long, 2 lanes wide, 65 tons of American pride! Macro USB! Macro USB! Top of the line. Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
RS-232 FTW!
Laughs in obsolete industrial controls hardware
I hate when I get something that still has a micro or even worse a mini 🤮
At least mini is robust. Micro had that tiny tab that always got damaged after a year or less cuz you inevitably tried to plug that mf in backwards
Ngl this never happened to me ever and I’m clumsy asf. Guess I was lucky.
Mini may be more robust, but do you know how hard for me to find a mini cable?
I still have a few because PSP/ps3, but also https://www.monoprice.com/Product?p_id=3896
Monoprice! For all your cable needs.
I have some left for the same reason, the hard part is figuring out where I left them
It’s the rule of cables. If I look for a micro USB, I will only find minis. If I look for minis, why suddenly I have only micro USB!!! Maybe I’m in the bad place.
I don’t think I ever managed to break it by plugging it in backwards, but they indeed brake constantly. Mine would always bend since they were so bloody thin. The only micro usb cable that didn’t break is the one going to my PC tablet, which I barely move, every other one got bumped around enough, either in my backpack or just charging in bed/on the couch, to eventually break the contacts within a year or 2, 3 max.
I once got an adapter as a kid to plug in a controller, was super exited until I dropped it and stepped on it by accident with my naked squishy child feet, probably the fastest I ever broke one of these. Like what the actual fuck? Micros sucks so much!
Yeah, mini is the best! It is robust and has a ahape that makes it easy to figure out which way to plug it. I love it when i fet a device with a mini
has a ahape that makes it easy to figure out
May I introduce you to USB C then where it doesn’t fucking matter how you plug it? I definitely prefer mini over the micro abomination but it’s not “the best”.
I see you don’t work IT where the solition to “my docking station isn’t working” always, always, always is “rotate the USB-C cable”.
I am not kidding. Vendors fuck this up either because they’re dumb or because they want to cheap out (why make sure both work if they’re interchangeable?)
“Wishing for more wishes it is!”
Nah, what about if we just use a even mix of all usb types and then ensure that half of all cables sold don’t have data pins?
Ok, calm down Satan.
What kind of sicko would ever want to go back to micro USB??? 🤢
Mini usb is where it’s at!
Early 2000s nerdcore tech lovers unite! Get out your 640x480 digital camera and cf cards!
Most of my flashlights and rechargeable decives are micro USB still. C is superior but I’m not throwing away good electronics over a charging cable.
Well in this scenario it’s a genie granting a wish, so why not just wish for everything to be changed to USB-C?
The question wasn’t who still uses them, the question was who wants to go back.
In some senses i would go back. Then i could just keep using 1 wire. Things were great when everything had the same cable for me. Now ive got a mix of micro and C.
I do a lot backpacking and every gram really counts when you carry it all day.
idonno, back in the day there was mini-usb and micro-usb. it’s not like we had just one cable, and then it was often with some weird cable only that gadget could use
And dozens of proprietary connectors!
You can get USB-C to micro USB adapters for like 7 bucks
I still keep a micro USB to USB-C adapter on my keys. I’ve been thinking of getting one that’s reverse too.
I was just thinking that the only device that’s still micro USB is my Kindle, but remembered that I also have a PS4 controller
Fucking gross. Might as well ask for mini while you’re at it.
I liked microusb. I don’t know what everyone is doing with their connectors, but I never had any contact issues.
All I know is no matter how careful I was, it would end up not connecting unless it was held at exactly the right angle. I’ve yet to have a single USB-C connector have the issue
I’ve got a USB C that requires me to have it plugged in one specific direction or no charging
Oof that sounds annoying
I’ve had it with shoddy c ports on various devices, including a phone (thankfully had wireless charging also). The connection pin thingy breaks off pretty easily, and causes the same issue you described for several weeks/months ahead of the actual breakoff, where it has to be in exactly the right position (and wiggling it to hit the right position obviously exacerbates the problem).
I’ve actually bought some magnetic chargers for the more fragile electronics, so I never have to put strain on the port…
We must be buying different USB-C cables, then. I’ve been using anker ones for years and havent had a single break like that, and I’m definitely not gentle with mine.
Every phone I’ve ever replaced was replaced because the micro USB broke. Now with how fast charging is I don’t even use my phone while it’s charging, but I still don’t expect the USB-C to be the part that gives out first.
I think the real solution is repairable gadgets. A microusb port costs pennies and if the phones were repairable at all, it would be a 5 minute solder job. The same is true for USB C as well. It might be more durable, but it can still break and it feels so stupid to replace a decive because a single cheap part broke.
I would like to know what I’m doing with the connectors too, dammit.
I don’t blame any connector, all of them end up the same for me. Externally in good condition but the conductivity the poorest.
I want my 16 pin serial port on my phone!
might as well go for HPIB or MIDI
Bring back D-Sub.
Micro USB type A.
I think you mean mini USB, you sadistic fuck
That doesn’t exist, Micro USB is always type B, only full size is A
Full size micro plug. Hrhr.
Micro USB A does exist, although I assume it is very uncommon.
Huh til thx
Me with my mini-usb devices rolling over in our grave
Mini at least didn’t have a tendency to just break for no reason
The worst cables I’ve had to deal with have been the mini versions of perfectly functional cables. Mini hdmi gets stuck, micro usb snaps off and almost fits backwards enough to break it, etc
Maybe he has a ton of unused wires…
USB B is still the best
The micro USB most of us know already is a USB-B. Each cable before USB-C had USB-A on one side and USB-B on the other. The square-like one used for printers is a full-sized USB-B, as opposed to the one used in phones (micro USB-B).
I’m pretty sure there’s also a micro USB-A that just never got adopted.
Yes, that’s what I meant by “the micro USB most of us know”. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the A variant of micro USB.
Isn’t that the PS3 controller cable? It’s such a funky lil micro variant I’m so scared to lose my cable lol
Unlikely, the A plugs are for the host devices while the B plugs are for peripherals. It got blurred with smartphones (see: USB-OTG) but in general the host devices were big enough to have full-sized USB ports, so the smaller USB-Bs are extremely rare.
I’m so conflicted. It’s way too chunky, but I’ve never had one fail and it’s durable as shit. Damn.
There’s a USB 3 B. I just encountered it, and that bitch somehow got chunkier.
Micro version too:
TIL my external hard drives use micro 3b. I didn’t realize that was a standard… figured it was a proprietary to prevent using the wrong cable…
Samsung phones used this for a couple years, I think around the S5 days?
Yes, the Galaxy S5 was the only Samsung flagship using the micro USB 3.0 port. They backpedaled to micro USB 2.0 in S6 and S7, and then migrated to USB-C in S8. I’m not sure about the Note series.
🤮 Those are sooo awful
But the devices are compatible with old micro usb cables at USB 2.0 speed and power.
I doesn’t break cause it’s too chonky to be broken.
