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[–] 49 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

"You'd always stick it in wrong at least once, preferably twice, and then swear about it under your breath, as was the style at that time. And the smaller devices had the micro USB ports that had the same problem. And you'd have to take out your mouse's ball and gently clean all the lint off it when it would start getting all onery. And don't even get me started about when they removed all the audio jacks from all the cellular phones!"

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Was it mini or micro usb, tho?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    USB-B always getting forgotten

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    USB micro 3 was the weirdest. One of my Samsunk Note phones used it.

    Neat thing a lot of people didn't know about it though was that you could still plug an older Micro B in and leave the rest unplugged, so it was backwards compatible for things like charging and slow data transfer.

    I also have a widescreen conferencing monitor at work with a USB3-B connector for its built-in camera. It also has Type C, but I guess they wanted to give options for people with computers that didn't have Thunderbolt ports or were using older docking stations.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago*

    I have an old Samsung tablet with a USB micro 3, gathering dust in a drawer somewhere. Galaxy tab 2 or 3 maybe? It was a top-of-the-line device in that era, and the only device I've ever seen with that funky connector. I actually find it curious we didn't see the standard more, as it's backwards-compatible with regular micro-USB in a pinch, but when you did use the proper cable it enabled both faster charging and data transfer.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Mini was okay, micro was awful

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    The pain of those clips breaking so fucking often 😭

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    huh really? i'm using micro 5pin on my daily driver phone for more than a decade now and my stock cable from 2013 still works perfectly

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    This is one of those cases where the name brand cable probably is better than an off brand.

    Tangential story, but a cheapo headphone cable once broke the headphone jack on my computer. It was too big and stretched out the connector in there.

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