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[โ€“] deagle2008@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Causing fires

[โ€“] RHOPKINS13@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I actually have a APC UPS at work that uses a USB-A to USB-A cable. You can look up the cable online, it's part number 940-0504. I was surprised APC used such a cable. I think if you tried to do something dumb like connect two PCs together with it, one of the USB ports would fry.

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[โ€“] WereCat@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I would definitely find a couple use cases for these

[โ€“] ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago

Angering the USB-IF

[โ€“] Dirk@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Finally! USB Direct Connect!

[โ€“] fubarx@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

So your pets can't chew the hard-disk cables.

Unless you have a pet rabbit.

[โ€“] yoo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The way these are called male and female has always been so wild

[โ€“] Frigid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Don't know what to tell you, people just kinda tend to be horny.

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[โ€“] brunofin@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have a cheap HDMI capture device that takes in video input, exposes it to the computer as a regular webcam, and then outputs it back to HDMI. It gets the job done.

It uses an USB male to male for power, and a regular one for data.

That said, not sure how a short one like that would help.

[โ€“] kuneho@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I had an old Medion digital camera that used USB-A - USB-A cable for synching with PC.

This could be a shorter version of it, tho idk why would anyone use this for thus purpose, would be awkward

[โ€“] slazer2au@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

So you have 2 USBC devices you want to connect together, a laptop and a phone for example, but for some reason you can't find your USBC to USBC cable but you do have 2 USBC to USBA cables.

Well by breaking the USB specifications you can connect the 2 cables together to make a janky USBC to USBC cable.

Alternatively you can get single circuit boards with USBA ports on them and you can use this jank of an adaptor to link them together.

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