Comment on Why is there no USB-C (female) to mini-B (male) adapter?

• JDPoZ@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ah yes. Good ol JXMOX… a household name in quality electronics.

  So glad this is the world we live in where a cat that’s attacking a keyboard can provide company names that fart in and out of existence every month on the monolithic online shopping monopoly site we all basically are forced to use if we need anything since RadioShack, Fry’s, and every single other boutique electronics shop is gone.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Look, JXMOX is a fabulous company. Nothing like that piece of shit JXMOW that had to shut down due to horrible reviews.

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  • isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s white-labeling with a side of trademark spam for good measure.

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re basically the brands of the very same Chinese factories that make the big-brand name stuff that’s sold to you for 4x the price.

    Whilst I can understand your point, you’re basically celebrating the modern strategy were Developed World electronics brands are nothing more than one big Marketing operation with the actual manufacturing and often even design of their products subcontracted to some Chinese factory.

    Now, the risk with getting the factory brand stuff is that it’s not at all uncommon for them to use inferior designs or materials because that brand is so shallow and they don’t really care about defending it (that does not apply to established Chinese brands, by the way) and are mainly competing on price, whilst Western brands often enforce that better materials and designs are used and proper Quality Assurence is done to keep failure rates low, though if you’re old enough you might have noticed that quality of the brands popular in the West is now way lower that 2 or 3 decades ago and practices such as planned-obscelence have become common.

    All this to say that while brand is this cozy familiar thing, it’s not worth the price and the gains from it are quite limited because there is no inhouse manufacturing behind the brand anymore and the whole thing has been cheapenned at the manufacturing end.

    My recommendation is to disregards brand for the stuff that’s cheap and not mission critical - such as the kind of USB converted the OP is looking for - since when the brand name stuff costs you 4x you can risk getting 2x that break easilly and it will still be cheaper. For more expensive stuff, you probably want the well known branded stuff, because there’s more money at risk, the non-branded stuff savings aren’t all that much, their better QA makes it less likely that it will break easilly, there is proper Warranty support and you can more easilly research it upfront to find out the best device of that kind for you which is actually decent because there are more user-reviews out there for stuff from big brands.

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• jasep@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have a pack of these, although perhaps not this specific brand. I swear by them. Mini and micro usb can die in a fire please.

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  • averagedrunk@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same. I have a lot of legacy recording equipment that I won’t replace until it stops working and it’s all mini USB.

    I’m just glad I got what I did instead of FireWire.

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    • ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      FireWire was ahead of its time. Thunderbolt is USB’s answer to FireWire

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      • averagedrunk@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I can’t argue with that because honestly I was jealous of the folks running it. But they are buying new equipment today and I’m not.

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• MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Aww, unavailable.

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  • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, many nations outlawed these during the great USB wars. So many packets lost, so many busses unserialized, and we still feel the consequences today.

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    • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, there are laws for shielding and chemicals and stuff, which are often more stringent in swiss.

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  • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Try aliexpress

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  • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Check AliExpress

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• multitude@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When clicking that link it came up with the last time I’ve purchased it. So as a random Internet stranger I can actually vouch for these.

  I’ve got an old Sonicare travel toothbrush that used that as a charger and really didn’t want to pack another cable. I’ve bought another pack because I ended up giving one away to a friend that lost the cable for a digital camera they use for work, and cannot use their cell phone for compliance reasons.

  In both cases it has worked fine for just charging, and for data transfer.

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