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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

What's this cable used for ?

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What's this cable used for ?

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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

I don’t know much about cables so if type something wrong forgive me …

I was wondering around with some old stuff, and found this cable that is usb to usb “as shown in the image below”

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71hHpyqvvnS._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg

Now what i thought was that it might be used to connect 2 computers with each other so i tried that and connected 2 computers with each other using it and nothing happened Can anyone tell me what this cable is even used for ???

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That’s how you kill a USB port 101
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  Why would it kill the port? I think the power lines would be at equal voltages on both ends and the data lines just wouldn’t do anything.
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  Do you mean that it was risky connecting one pc to another with this usb to usb cable ???

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