USB-C stick 4tw.
Until you find out that a usbc plug fits inside a usba port and you can mix them up when reaching around your computer. (Don’t test this on anything that is powered on, I did it on accident once and it triggered my motherboards usb overcurrent failsafe)
Did this (on purpose) to HP laptops we were discarding at work (Elitebook G5) and you kill the entire USB-A part of the machine.
10/10 would HP again
My cheap AM3 motherboard doesn’t cares about USB short circuts. So it’s HP’s deliberate miscalculation.
It is definitely HP just being HP.
Other non HP machines we have are just fine if you short the USB-A ports
same with my old lenovo laptop, i shorted both the power and data pins literally hundreds of times while tinkering with microcontrollers, and all it did is disable the ports until a reboot
HP = Horrible Product
Likely RIP PCH (or the CPU, if those 2 are combined). That’s kinda weird they don’t install protection on USB ports 'cause those are like 20 cents (at least judging by those in my t480). On the other hand, HP’s gonna HP
Duude I tried blindly plugging in a USB-C at the back of my PC ones, I was like “Aha, gotcha” and then my PC just shut down. First came confusion, then I realized it wiggled left and right. That was incredibly scary, luckily ASRock has good protection circuits so nothing happened.
But I sure as hell haven’t blindly plugged in USB-C since then.
SD card supremacy
I flipped one like 5 times yesterday before I realized that I was 90 degrees off…
Every time I plugged USB-C into SDCX: perfect height, but why are you moving?
Why three tries in the top panel? It normally takes me 4, bcs I also try it sideways - but you got it right the first time, noi?
He’s very good
I stumbled upon a fully reversible USB A to Micro-B cable a couple weeks ago. Blew my mind.
I used such a cable from ugreen. This cable lasted 1 month, while standard cables from this company lasted for years.
link doesn’t load but one came with my jbl speaker (type-c-to-a with reversible usb-a side)
the middle part is a bit floppy and just slides off to the right side when you push it in
it works surprisingly well and still works even after a year of use
He got tha apple vision on got damn
This one speaks to me
Getting the entire Internet on a USB stick
Me trying to insert a USB cable to a port on the back of my PC below my desk.
plugs flash stick into Ethernet port
Flash stick bulges and pops like a balloon as the internet streams into it
Nice meme but please:
There also was a cool one with a monitorhead
It’s actually very simple. Look at the hole, look at the plug and then it’s a square peg square hole situation.
Edit: I poop in cubes.
Makes me want to build a combo ethernet usba socket
3 tries only if you’re lucky. Normally it’s upwards of 5 or even infinite until you actually look at the port
Schrödinger’s port
One time I went to plug in my headphone and I accidentally plugged it into the USB port next to the jack… My laptop died and had to have parts replaced. Guy at the shop told me I shouldn’t have done that 🙄. I just said they shouldn’t have designed those ports to be right next to each other if the product breaks when you hit the wrong one.
Anyway, be careful about plugging shit into the wrong port.
What connector did your headphones have? I’m trying to imagine you plugging an RCA jack into ethernet port.
TIL a jack is the thingy you plug in, I thought it was the thingy you plug into.
Um, just a normal earphones jack, I think that’s 3,5mm? Not RCA and I don’t have ethernet ports either 😄
Yeah, I meant 3.5 mm but I get lazy these days and call them all RCA jacks to mean “those perfectly fine audio jacks that have been replaced with usb and/or bluetooth”. As an unabashed pedant, I will try to do better.
BTW, it would appear that you are correct about which end is the jack: https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/audio-jack So it was TIL that the jack is the hole you plug in to.
