Ha. I like the vga part but the part that makes your usb - c connector look like an old fashioned proprietary apple lightening connector is just too much!
It’s not the same without two little screws jangling about
I had fuckin bent pins and pins falling out of my vga connector. I had to straighten them and align them. Good times.
You could take the screws out of your iPhone and glue them onto the knobs, it’ll void your AppleCare though.
this is the most comments I’ve seen on lemmy. now i know the community I’m in. God help me.
Leave a factually incorrect, unprompted whataboutism about socialism or communism in a thread criticizing capitalism and I bet you could rival this comment count.
There was a thread this week about Biden’s achievements and it got at least 600 comments haha.
Nice! I can definitely see how that would stir the pot. I’ve had a lot of good discussion on Lemmy, I really enjoy it.
I like it here too. It’s smaller, nicer than… That other, silly place.
same here please don’t get me wrong it’s been great
You mean radical right USSA president?
Anarchy in the UK!?
What, you an HDMI guy? Son, we charge our laptops with VGA cables
Op still uses VGA. And is offended. 😬
My second monitor (CRT) is using a VGA to HDMI adapter.
Not in this house!
I came back to see how many people were truly offended by this like I was and…yeah. These are my people.
Can explain to someone with english skill issue?
Yes officer. This post over here.
No, seriously, why am I offended. This is offensive to me.
Probably because the screws can’t be used!
Just gonna have to 3d print a phone case with the corresponding threads, I guess.
Are you calling twitter mob?
Because that stupid proprietary connector is now illegal in the EU YAAAAY
How about display port that looks like HDMI? Oh wait…
No, how about DVI that looks like HDMI? Hold on…
Explaination: basically HDMI is patent-troll-guarded version of DVI with some additional(and useless or actively harmful) stuff
A power plug, but the three-prong ones like we have in the UK. The two lower prongs would appear to be plugged into the phone, and the top prong would just hover uselessly above the phone.
Bonus points for following the shape of the plug properly and having the cable come out of the bottom of the wall wart, so the phone can never lat down flat while it’s charging.
Holy shit, man - who crapped in your doritos?
That’s brilliant. Do you have
.stls available for that?An ethernet cable that’s actually wired for a serial port
looks at network hardware vendors
Sounds like someone accidentally used the wrong port a few times.
That’s what she said?
But there aren’t any screws!?
I’ve seen it
That’s a console cable. They’re actually useful.
That’s a valid use of Cat5 cable.
I would want an RJ45 charger.
Coaxial for me
25pin serial cable and ain’t nobody at work gonna steal my phone charger no more.
At first I thought it was great standard connector. It turns out to be non-standard garbage.
You have to buy a million dollar iPod to use it.
Make it look like an old Apple 30-pin.
That is a work of art.
Side note, does anyone know some sort of cable sleeve similar to this that instead grabs onto the device and stabilizes the port?
As much as I like type-C, the ports on my laptop have worn down significantly and aren’t always stable
Depends on what you mean by stable.
It’s likely dust in the port. If you gently clean it out with a toothpick or other small flat instrument you will get it to seat better. If dust is the issue, you should see some lint at the bottom of the port.
Sorry for not being clear, I’m not talking about connection stability, I mean the type-c port (female) becomes flimsy over the years and doesn’t hold the connector (male) securely anymore
Neither are they. If there’s dust or fuzz down in there, it doesn’t physically seat correctly, and ends up being wobbly.
This isn’t usually the cause. If the cable isn’t inserting fully then yes it can be dust and that often helps the problem, but the retention mechanism itself wears out over time leading to the cable slipping out easily and depending on the design things can get wobbly. I work with electronics for a living and with laptops more often than not it’s the latter category with dust not being too common of an issue since they aren’t kept in pockets. Phones on the other hand it’s usually dust, but I don’t interact with many USB C phones old enough for wear to be an issue.
Personally I have the opinion that usb-c should be a connector for mobile devices only and there should be something with the size of a type a or b for stationary stuff. The size makes the connector too flimsy
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USB-C has been really fragile for me. Cables tend to only last a couple of months on my phone. People say it is a robust connector type, so idk if my phone is defective and destroying them, or if people are being overly generous about the connector resilience.
This was my experience with micro usb, and everyone seemed to agree they were total shit. As for USB-C, I’ve never even heard of someone having trouble with the actual cord. Generally the issue is that there is lint or something in the charge port. I don’t think I’ve ever thrown out a USB-C cord, to my memory.
In short, check for lint, and if that’s not the issue then yeah it really might be your phone. Mind if I ask what kind of phone you have?
Pixel 7 Pro. It’s definitely not lint. I’ll try the cables with other devices after they stop working and they’re dead. I’ve resorted to buying the expensive cables and even those eventually wear out.
I’ve had issues with the cable on my pixel 6 pro not staying seated - so I plug the phone in and if there’s slight movement and it stops charging, very annoying… I also had the same issue with my pixel 5, so much so that I had to get it repaired. I don’t do anything unusual wear and tear wise (like working on a building site), and since the 5, I always make sure the port is debris free before plugging in.
It’s frustrating because I have an iPhone for work and the connection on that is reassuringly solid.
Yeah, the iPhone cable is nice. It’s just a simple male to female, not this double inception stuff that USB-C is. But USB-C is faster, and more universal. I guess the problem is probably my phone. I already had to get it replaced once because the port burned out. Great job Google! Nice flagship phone you’ve got there.
I don’t really know why your cables would be falling so fast, but to be fair part of the design of USB C is that, inverting the design of USB A, the connector is on the cable side, in the hope that the cable should be the part that deteriorates first. That way fewer devices get trashed for having dodgy sockets.
Maybe they’re lonely and just want to talk to someone about it.
Hey, I’d buy it. Maybe, I mean money is pretty tight.
VGA was a standard though, wasn’t it?
Yes, VESA. Same people do DisplayPort.
