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I found it at the dollar store.

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 169 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't think of it as a tiny cable, think of it as a gender bender. You can put on the end of some female cable.

You're more likely to see dongles like this at fixed installations. Like somebody puts a USB port into a wall, like a speaker's podium, or a presentation stand. So one side is fixed, depending on what you want to hook up to it, you might need to have a gender bender.

[-] Starshader@lemmy.ml 56 points 1 year ago

Is the cable considered transgender after that ?

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 69 points 1 year ago

USB is bi-directional. So it really doesn't care about the plug gender. Some other protocols are directional, then the plug gender is very important, so adapters for directional protocols tend to be more expensive, it may even require external power.

Once USB on the go was invented it cease to matter at all.

[-] essellburns@beehaw.org 34 points 1 year ago

Today I learnt my sexuality is USB

[-] lud@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

Universal Sexual Bus?

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