ooli@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoUSB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversiblewww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square241fedilinkarrow-up1583arrow-down112
arrow-up1571arrow-down1external-linkUSB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversiblewww.pcgamer.comooli@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square241fedilink
minus-squareBilliam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoYep. It’s not that it isn’t reversible, it’s that it’s non-reversible contacts inside a symmetrical connector.
minus-squareSharkwellington@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year agoWhich boils down to: people want to be able to plug something in without thorough inspection. An easy, cheap solution they could have popularized from the start would be to print something like an arrow on both the port and plug to line up visually.
Yep. It’s not that it isn’t reversible, it’s that it’s non-reversible contacts inside a symmetrical connector.
Which boils down to: people want to be able to plug something in without thorough inspection.
An easy, cheap solution they could have popularized from the start would be to print something like an arrow on both the port and plug to line up visually.
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