Comment on USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible

• 1847953620@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Only usually

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  • mayo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I say usually but it’s basically the rule. Of all my things only the QNAP NAS has a slim side down port, and maybe that’s some other convention I’m not aware of since it’s for the copy-data port. That’s among a random pile consisting of a Cisco networking equipment, Intel NUC, old macbook, new microsoft and HP laptops, a hdmi/usb switch, ps4, and a raspberry pi

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    • 1847953620@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ooo so much tech, much IT /s

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      • mayo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m an IT worker so ya I have a bunch of junk and I’ve seen a lot of ports

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