Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way

• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Nope, it’s a USB drive.

  Quite a few of the usual memory device manufacturers make drives that have a Type A USB plug on one end, and either Micro USB or Type C on the other. They’re specifically meant for one end to easily plug into your PC, and the other end to go into your phone.

  Example: pny.com/duo-link-usb-3-2-type-c-dual-flash-drive

  Or: westerndigital.com/…/sandisk-ultra-dual-drive-m30…

  I have one sitting in my desk that’s so old it still has a Micro USB connector on it and is therefore not terribly useful in this day and age.

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• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Male to male?
  People are going to plug their phone directly into their computer without a cable?

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  • Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ha gayyyyy

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They are, but I don’t recommend it unless you want at least one of the ports to snap internally as it hangs out the front of the PC.

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  • fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The adapter shown is functionally identical to a usb 2 to usb c cable. I believe the meme is essentially suggesting the same thing you did with using a file explorer.

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    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Kinda… But who the fuck has a male/female USB or usb-c cable sitting around???

      One of the ends of this adapter should be female, or this should just be an A/C cord. The fact that it’s not made me think that this is actually a thumbdrive, not that I can confirm if it actually is or what OP actually meant.

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      • fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I agree that a cable would be wildly more useful than what’s pictured, for what it’s worth.

        That said (tangentially related), I have a few male/female usb cables and they’re a godsend. Extremely handy for game controllers and/or extenders for bluetooth or wireless device dongles.

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      • Blueberrydreamer@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Why would you need a male/female USB?

        This device is basically just a really short charging/data cable. I don’t understand what’s so confusing about it. It’s functionally identical to using the standard charging cable, just with the devices closer together.

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• Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way

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