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[–] [email protected] 191 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Ha. I like the vga part but the part that makes your usb - c connector look like an old fashioned proprietary apple lightening connector is just too much!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for pointing that out, I didn't notice it lmao

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(I think that was a joke, it IS actually a lightning cable)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah I'm not entirely sure, but it WOULD be possible to print a sticker like that

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not the same without two little screws jangling about

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How about display port that looks like HDMI? Oh wait...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

You Villain!

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes officer. This post over here.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No, seriously, why am I offended. This is offensive to me.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably because the screws can’t be used!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Just gonna have to 3d print a phone case with the corresponding threads, I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (8 children)

this is the most comments I've seen on lemmy. now i know the community I'm in. God help me.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Leave a factually incorrect, unprompted whataboutism about socialism or communism in a thread criticizing capitalism and I bet you could rival this comment count.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There was a thread this week about Biden's achievements and it got at least 600 comments haha.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice! I can definitely see how that would stir the pot. I've had a lot of good discussion on Lemmy, I really enjoy it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like it here too. It's smaller, nicer than... That other, silly place.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

What, you an HDMI guy? Son, we charge our laptops with VGA cables

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (4 children)

A power plug, but the three-prong ones like we have in the UK. The two lower prongs would appear to be plugged into the phone, and the top prong would just hover uselessly above the phone.

Bonus points for following the shape of the plug properly and having the cable come out of the bottom of the wall wart, so the phone can never lat down flat while it's charging.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's brilliant. Do you have .stls available for that?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (5 children)

An ethernet cable that's actually wired for a serial port

looks at network hardware vendors

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sounds like someone accidentally used the wrong port a few times.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've seen a few renditions of this one so far:

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At first I thought it was great standard connector. It turns out to be non-standard garbage.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I would want an RJ45 charger.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Why two different and incompatible options?

Or, more generally, why can't I ever read some USB spec and get out with less questions than I had in the beginning?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Probably for the same reason why they decided to rename USB 3.0.

I guess they had a liquor cabinet in the room where they held their meeting

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Because for some reason, the USBIF has been hit over and over again with the stupid stick ever since USB2 came out.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (27 children)

Side note, does anyone know some sort of cable sleeve similar to this that instead grabs onto the device and stabilizes the port?

As much as I like type-C, the ports on my laptop have worn down significantly and aren't always stable

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Depends on what you mean by stable.

It's likely dust in the port. If you gently clean it out with a toothpick or other small flat instrument you will get it to seat better. If dust is the issue, you should see some lint at the bottom of the port.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Terrible ideas:

  • Garden hose
  • NEMA 10-50 - each "prong" could be a different connector
  • CCS
  • USB-A
  • Quick-connect air coupler
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Make it look like an old Apple 30-pin.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That could actually be one of the more confusing ones.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

A 24 pin mobo power connector just to strike ptsd into those who notice.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

That is a work of art.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Print USB-A sleeves with the logo on the wrong side. People will be so surprised and confused when they can't plug the cable in on the first try!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

...There's a logo on one side?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Hey, I'd buy it. Maybe, I mean money is pretty tight.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

You inspired at least one print. Thankfully, I have blue filament on hand!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

VGA was a standard though, wasn't it?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

V G A! V G A!

VGA master race.

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