▲ 239 ▼ One day USB-A will be so uncommon that people will say "back in my day, it took at least 3 tries to put the USB in" (lemmy.world) submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world 66 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) The pain of those clips breaking so fucking often 😭 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago* I've had them break, but nowhere near as often as people online claim. Maybe I've just been lucky. I've also has USB C break down on me already, so.. permalink fedilink source parent [–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago* I've had them break, but nowhere near as often as people online claim. Maybe I've just been lucky. I've also has USB C break down on me already, so.. permalink fedilink source parent [–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago* I've had them break, but nowhere near as often as people online claim. Maybe I've just been lucky. I've also has USB C break down on me already, so.. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 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. permalink fedilink source parent
breaking so fucking often 😭