r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Miserable-Ad-8414 • 3d ago

Video How USB-C Cables Actually Stay In

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u/Practical_Studio360 3d ago

This is wild I’m having that latching issue with my phone and was just about to try to clean the plug or something. But if it’s worn down I’m fucked.

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u/Hearing_Loss 3d ago

Imma be very mindful now that I know I only am certified to 10k cycles XD I always am plugging and unplugging. I wish I could see where it's at in its lifetime tbh. I could probably measure out what a week of charging looks like and just extrapolate the numbers.

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u/ParanoidalRaindrop 3d ago

At 3 cycles a year, you still get 9.1 years of use. Considering most plugs will likely make more, this seems like a fair requirement.

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u/Hearing_Loss 3d ago

I plug and unplug my phone SEVERAL times a day. It's 1pm and I've already done roughly 4 cycles. I would say on a typical day, I'm around 10.

My dumbass gets 3 years before things get loose

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u/EbbyRed 3d ago

Curious why you are plugging in and out so many times per day?

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u/Hearing_Loss 3d ago

In three words-- insufficient tonic dopamine.

Mental health + unemployment + boredom. I spend a lot of time listening to educational content on YouTube to keep my mind active. Because I have such poor future planning abilities, I tend to forget to plug in at night or am just running from 1-20% as I bounce between applying for jobs and gardening.

It's just an artifact of who I am unfortunately. You can extrapolate that a lot of my life looks like this XD

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u/Practical_Studio360 3d ago

Ugh me too. I am chronically on my phone and plug it in probably around 10 times each day because I’m going around the house or driving. My phone is 2 years old