Lemmy at mair.io
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world ·
edit-2
8 days ago

One day USB-A will be so uncommon that people will say "back in my day, it took at least 3 tries to put the USB in"

message-square
message-square
61
link
fedilink
1
message-square

One day USB-A will be so uncommon that people will say "back in my day, it took at least 3 tries to put the USB in"

TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world ·
edit-2
8 days ago
message-square
61
link
fedilink
  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    8 days ago

    “You’d always stick it in wrong at least once, preferably twice, and then swear about it under your breath, as was the style at that time. And the smaller devices had the micro USB ports that had the same problem. And you’d have to take out your mouse’s ball and gently clean all the lint off it when it would start getting all onery. And don’t even get me started about when they removed all the audio jacks from all the cellular phones!”

    • towerful@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      8 days ago

      Was it mini or micro usb, tho?

      • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        7 days ago

        USB-B always getting forgotten

        • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          7 days ago

          USB micro 3 was the weirdest. One of my Samsunk Note phones used it.

          Neat thing a lot of people didn’t know about it though was that you could still plug an older Micro B in and leave the rest unplugged, so it was backwards compatible for things like charging and slow data transfer.

          I also have a widescreen conferencing monitor at work with a USB3-B connector for its built-in camera. It also has Type C, but I guess they wanted to give options for people with computers that didn’t have Thunderbolt ports or were using older docking stations.

        • trannus_aran@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          7 days ago

          Unless you’re an office worker or musician

      • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        8 days ago

        Yes.

      • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        7 days ago

        Mini was okay, micro was awful

        • Axolotl@feddit.it
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          7 days ago

          The pain of those clips breaking so fucking often 😭

          • hexagonwin@lemmy.today
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            7 days ago

            huh really? i’m using micro 5pin on my daily driver phone for more than a decade now and my stock cable from 2013 still works perfectly

            • ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              0
              ·
              7 days ago

              I’ve had them break, but nowhere near as often as people online claim. Maybe I’ve just been lucky.

              I’ve also had USB C break down on me already, so…

    • TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      8 days ago

      Grandpa, What’s an audio jack? Is that what you guys used to eat those tide pod things?

      • Hamartia@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        8 days ago

        Can’t you see that gramp’s busy cleaning his ornery balls

    • applebusch (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      8 days ago

      ornery

      • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        8 days ago

        Ornery vs Onery. They are both valid.

    • lonefighter@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      8 days ago

      I actually miss having to clean the mouse’s ball. It was oddly therapeutic.

      • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        7 days ago

        Nah give me lasers, but it was fun to spin as a fidget toy

Showerthoughts@lemmy.world

showerthoughts@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !showerthoughts@lemmy.world

A “Showerthought” is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you’re doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

  • Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
  • When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
  • More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as “capitalism” and “communism”. If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy’s Code of Conduct and the TOS

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 82 users / day
  • 476 users / week
  • 1.05K users / month
  • 4.05K users / 6 months
  • 0 local subscribers
  • 43.3K subscribers
  • 1.53K Posts
  • 27.1K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • vatlark@lemmy.world
  • forkball@lemmy.world
  • SuperEars@lemmy.world
  • UI: unknown version
  • BE: 0.19.20
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org