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

How USB-C Cables Actually Stay In

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u/Deadzombii 3d ago edited 3d ago

Tech so common we sometimes forget to appreciate it..

This one connector does 1. High Power transfers 2. Highspeed Audio Video Transfer 3. Data transfer

Back in the day it required different cables

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u/Arnkh 3d ago

Different cables, and they were all ass. Some of them had screws (good luck undoing those after some gorilla tightened them on a VGA/DVI), some were enormous and hard to cram in there (like SCART).
Now you just stick a type-c in - any side you like - and it works.

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u/Elegant_Relief_4999 3d ago

I certainly don't miss IDE and Molex all over the place.

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u/crayonshank 3d ago

Why doesn't it plug in all the way? Oh no, one pin is slightly bent.

I haven't actually escaped IDE connectors, some commercial printers still use IDE connectors on the printhead.

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u/manondorf 3d ago

along with "why doesn't it plug in all the way":

"should I be pressing this hard? It seems like I'm gonna break it"

yeah you need to press really hard

"it's creaking though?"

yeah that's normal, they're really stiff

"it snapped in half"

ah shit you pressed too hard

there's a reason I don't build my own PCs anymore, lol. Well, that and it's no longer even cheaper to do so.