Related question: what is the deal with this particular type of cable and external hard drives?
Why does this cable exist?
It doesn’t seem like it can be a throughput speed thing because it’s a standard USB-A on the other end. But we’ve gotten multiple drives over the years that have this cable. I don’t understand.
@massa OK but as that data and power are both successfully passing through a USB-A on the other end why make this thing? Why not just have it be USB-A at both ends? This USB had long since become cheap commodity hardware.
@flaki to be clear I don’t know what the difference between white and blue is. And I feel like surely it would’ve been cheaper to use USB-A at both ends. Does having a socket for one of these things make something easier with circuit board design?
@masto heh. It was getting hard to close a while ago, so i threw out all the cables that only worked in devices we didn't have anymore. I also threw out like half of the USB-A to USB-micro and i still have like 10 of them somehow. 🤦♀️
@massa I meant in the sense of why not use a standard USB-A cable with one male and one female end? If whatever's passing through it has to work in USB-A at one end why introduce a different end to the cable (with a conversion chip?)?
Why not use the cheap commodity connection on both ends? HOw does introducing this different funky, and presumably more expensive end benefit the manufacturer or the consumer?
I'm trying to get to the WHY BOTHER rather than the what.
I made a little website for my book. Before I publish it, is there any feedback you have? Does it answer all your questions? Are there bugs? Is anything missing? Thank you! ❤️
@Meyerweb photophobic people who have trouble with how damn bright the web is (like me) browse with tools like Dark Reader. Here’s what i saw whaen i viewed it on my phone.
I know this is niche and nitpicky, but it is an accessibility issue, and it’s a book about accessibility .
@soft it’s important to keep the seeds together until it’s time to plant. Otherwise you end up with like, a bunch of sesame bagel plants and those are fine, but…
The thing about me being a BDFL for #curl is that it has the D in there. I have the means and ability to push for just about anything I like. I say that I truly try to be a benevolent dictator, but then I presume quite a few dictators would say so.
Next week I will tell you all about how I view this dictatorship and how it is not quite like a dictatorship of a country since in our case, everyone could just leave if I misbehave.
@danirabbit
🤔it occurs to me that the best way to get good support for a linux hardware thing is to guarantee the team members behind your favorite distro each gets one sent to them.
Similarly if you want to buy hardware with good support from it you should get whatever those team members are loving.