That's a Lenovo E480. There are two other USB-A and a USB-C and HDMI on the other side, plus you can't see behind the dongles but there's an ethernet port on the laptop as well.

I only have two complaints with what I'm looking at. One is there's probably not enough power for whatever you have connected to all of those USB things. And two, there's not enough support for the port that you're plugging this into to resist the weight of all of the dongles, which could damage the motherboard.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

What if they're external drives with their own power supplies? I've done things nearly this convoluted, but used self powered devices.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Then you're just constrained by the data bandwidth

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

I'm quite familiar with that one.

The worst one was the pre Raspberry Pi 3 boards. The early ones used an on board Ethernet chip set that was slaved directly to the USB controller. It was USB 2.0 so it could negotiate 100, but really run much less than that.

Then, if you put in a keyboard, mouse, and a USB thumb drive the USB host would multiplex over them and your bandwidth for data transfer would drop precipitously.

I was so happy when they moved to a real Ethernet chip instead of a USB adapter. The new limitation became the microSD... Of course they also introduced the grounding reset issue on the USB port, but just don't plus or unplug anything and it'd be fine.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world -2 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

It's plugged into the USB port not the motherboard.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The USB port is attached to the motherboard.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 9 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

And the leg bone connected to the knee bone.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Ohh! Now I get why my knees hurt when I stomp my feet!

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

No that’s because you’re old.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 12 minutes ago

But then shouldn't it just be my foot that hurts?
What does it have to do with my knee?
It is yet to take an arrow.

[–] deacon@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

There is a generic leg bone?

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

duh, do you not know the song? idiot

(I'm kidding) <3

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Yup totally it probably just means femur, tibia, or fibula.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

What do you think will break first with enough downward force? The port, or the motherboard solder joints holding the weight?

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 6 points 16 hours ago

No this is a schooner.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I hope you're remembered like Ken M. I always find these funny, even when, or perhaps especially when, they don't land well in the thread.

[–] deacon@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

I will never not upvote the ‘Fart