I found it at the dollar store.
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.
Is the cable considered transgender after that ?
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.
Today I learnt my sexuality is USB
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What your describing sounds more like a double ended dildo
As long as the double ended dildo provided low impedance electrical through ways, and distinct electrical paths for at least four conduits, with minimal capacitive cross talk… then yes
I like you and your style. Do not let a stupid dirty joke get in the way of proper electrical and data connections. It tells me where your priorities are and I respect that.
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double ended dildo
Isn’t that just a gender bender for women? Now we just need a double ended fleshlight for equality… And no I’m not going to google that!
Ass to ass
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Have you never just wanted to plug 2 PCs into each other back to back?
Ass to ass as it were
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Back and forth, forever.
If you think about it, this is the USB equivalent of a double ended dildo
does this mean there’s also double ended flesh lights?
Isn’t that the nickname of your mum?
It turn@ a usb extension cable into a regular usb
I guess that could be a use case?
Or turn 2 extension cords into a long one.
But a serious answer is that these are sometimes sold in a kit of adapters that would let you change the head. Most kits like used a normal cord as the base cord, but some used USB extension cords as the base cord. So this is meant to be a replacement part, not useful in its own right.
wouldn’t that just make this thing longer? we’d still have the same problem
There are female-female USB extension cables. As to why those exist…
They are good for wifi/bt/radio usb receivers used for keyboard/mouse/gamepads…so they can be in a better place like higher or further.
Those still need to get plugged in to the device somehow lol
Yeah… honestly somehow I missed the female-female part 😂 I thought it was male-female.
Well then it’s used in combination with a male male for sure otherwise yeah O don’t see any use unless there is some weird device with male input.
Such A-to-A adaptors and cables always have been prohibited by the USB spec, but people built them anyway. A common usecase for “illegal” A-A cables i remember were connecting PCIe cards (especially GPUs and mining cards) externally to riser sockets.
I have an external 3,5“ HDD enclosure that needs a male to male USB 3.0 A cable to plug into a PC. Still wondering, why they didn’t use B…
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Cost? A USB-A 3.0 connector is probably a few cents cheaper than a B 3.0 connector
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I have a similar caddy. Many years old now. The connection to the host computer is a USB-A female, so connecting it requires a male to male cable.
I bought a breadboard power supply and the options to feed it power are a barrel jack and usb-a. Considering the size of the thing mini or micro would have made way more sense.
The ones I have go trough the onboard voltage regulator and you can use them to power USB-devices. I suppose they’ve skipped diodes and other protective components so it can feed back to the circuit, but I haven’t tested that.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_On-The-Go
In 2001 the directionality became kind of moot. Especially if you want to do attach something with an on-the-go host
An OTG setup needs all 5 pins of the micro-B connector. USB A cannot be used for OTG. If a USB-A port can act as a client, that’s not OTG, it’s a botched implementation.
Technically, yes… but life finds a way https://pinoutguide.com/PortableDevices/usb_otg_pinout.shtml
I’ve used them for extension, as it allows you to attach a second, regular USB cable to it.
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They’re not priceless, they’re $3.00
It’s a banana, how much could it cost?
Well, what do you mean by “regular”? The cable would need to be female on at least one end, which I usually see in… USB extension cables.
Not that you probably need to know this, but for some other stranger: there’s a max functional length to USB cables. At work I remember pulling my hair out troubleshooting a printer until we swapped cables for something shorter.
And that max length goes down with each coupling.
We have smart boards in most classrooms, but in an entire wing of my department the smart board doesn’t work. Reason? When we built the wing, 8 or 10 years ago, the installers fitted their own low grade plugs on the USB connection for the boards, before figuring out that they snipped the cables too short. Instead of running new cabling the installers then introduced another extension.
Nobody cared to check it out before accepting delivery and my complaints went unheard by management, until it was too late to RMA it.
That said, there are “active” USB extension cables which draw current from the power lines and use it to boost the signal along the data lines
Sometimes you have a female to female cable.
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LUSBian sex obviously!
To connect two USB-A ports.
Basically the same as a USB-A to USB-A cable, just really short.
USB-A to USB-A cables do not exist, the USB standard does not allow them, if you have a cable with two USB-A connectors then it’s not actually a certified USB cable. The same goes for USB extension cables and this adapter. Note how there isn’t a ‘USB certified’ logo on the package.
USB-A to USB-A cables do not exist
wtf are you talking about, of course they do.
Show me where in the USB standards these are specified.
This is like saying that a building isn’t a building if it’s not up to code
Or like saying usb-a to usb-c adapters don’t exist because they’re not part of the standard but we all have like six of those damn things even though we’ve never actually bought a single one.
But those are actually part of the standard.
Are they? Everything I can find seems to say they aren’t.
I remember when the first usb-c Macbooks hit stores Apple didn’t have usb-a to c adapters for sale because they weren’t in spec, a lot of reviews mentioned that.
They cables and exist and they work. So being “specified” doesn’t mean jack shit.
They might sometimes work. They aren’t guaranteed to work.
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They meant cables in spec with the USB specification at the time usb-a was new.
Now with usb-c, it’s kinda moot, as most cables are male to male anyway… of course that means we’re more likely to see USB-C female to female adopters now
USB-C female to female adapters also are out of spec. The USB standard does not allow for extensions. USB cables only have male connectors (with the exception of USB-OTG dongles).
The cables exist; they just don’t follow the standard. I’ve used them when developing consumer electronics: the host controller on the device switches to device mode in the bootloader, allowing a host machine to connect and debug/flash the device.
USB-A to USB-A cables do exist.
I have seen many (very cheap) peripherals use USB-A sockets. I figure those sockets must be a few cents cheaper than alternatives.
And there was a USB certified logo on these cables and devices?
China stuff loves to slap logos on there that do not apply, so probably without having seen this particular abomination myself. Fake CE markings are super common though.
USB-A to USB-A doesn’t exist
*looks at old charger from an American device*
HOLY SHIT A CRYPTID CALL SCP
That’s not a USB charger.
HOLY SHIT AN UNIDENTIFIED CRYPTID CALL SCOOBYDOO!
They do exist, despite the USB standards not allowing them
See: cheapo video capture card for work, other side is just HDMI-IN and OUT
They shouldn’t exist but don’t mean they don’t when you get the cheapest little devices you can find
They do exist, despite the USB standards not allowing them
A USB cable is a cable that conforms to the USB specification. If a cable does not conform to the USB specification then it isn’t an USB cable by definition
I’m not saying a cable with 2 USB-A style connectors doesn’t exist, I’m just saying that it is not a USB cable. Just like a glass of Pepsi is not a glass of Coca-Cola even though it may look like one.
It’s not hard to imagine a product that would require one, though. It’s how every phone charging cable works, just with a different size male USB on one end.
You ever watch Requiem For A Dream?
ASSSSSSS TO ASSSSSSSS
I dunno but it bothers me how much plastic wrapping that fucking thing apparently needs.
Ass-to-ass.
Docking
I used to have a portable hard drive that had a usb-A/ e-sata hybrid connector and I had to use a USB A to A cable (or e-data) to use it.
