• maculata@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    I love how everyone is trying make up some ‘logical system’ or magical thinking about the completely arbitrary and random nature of the problem.

    It’s not like there’s a big hairy USB god in the clouds who is going listen to all your jibber-jabber or that there’s some hidden alchemical formula that will turn the wrongly oriented USB connection into the golden correct orientation everytime.

    It’s all bullshit. I don’t care if you are offended. It’s not the Bronze Age anymore. Just grow up and look at your damn USB connector, and then the socket.

    SCIENCE, BITCH.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Here’s the way: look at the little “crack” on the middle of the plug on one side (the vast vast vast majority have one) – that should be facing down. I haven’t used a vertical plug in a while but I think it faces left there.

    For the forsaken anguish of God, microUSB, it’s reversed, so crack up.

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I firmly believe that rather than superpositional, these are 11 dimensional. It doesn’t matter which direction you rotate it, it will still take you on average five or six 180° rotations until it fits into the damned slot.

  • Vespair@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    I think this kind of meme is the same thing as people who pretend to hate the word “moist.”

    • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I’ve been preaching this about “moist” for years. I genuinely haven’t found anyone with an aversion to it who disliked the word before dislike of it became a part of the cultural fabric.

      • Vespair@lemm.ee
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        6 months ago

        Boring pop culture opinions that nobody actually likes but which wear the cadence of interesting content so people unthinkingly clap along out of habit even though nobody is actually edified by it or sincerely enjoying it.

    • Allero@lemmy.today
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      6 months ago

      USB devices just not fitting the damn slot is an all too common issue, and it normally takes me 2-3 rotations to finally insert it if I’m not actively looking.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    You can buy reversible USB cables online. The connector works in either direction. They’re pretty neat.

  • miridius@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    My superpower is that I can plug in USB A the right way up on the first try pretty much every time

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

      What is ironic is I bought a USB switcher for using Keyboard, Mouse etc with 4 systems; it has the USB ports upside-down.

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      While I’m extremely envious of you, if I had the opportunity to choose one superpower, there are probably a million others I’d choose before that one haha

      like a superpower that gives me exactly as much money as I need at any given moment anytime I need it.

      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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        6 months ago

        Hell yeah. Then you just just buy a bunch of new USBs instead of sitting there turning it around four times!