Ha. I like the vga part but the part that makes your usb - c connector look like an old fashioned proprietary apple lightening connector is just too much!
Thank you for pointing that out, I didn’t notice it lmao
(I think that was a joke, it IS actually a lightning cable)
Yeah I’m not entirely sure, but it WOULD be possible to print a sticker like that
I know, I had to look at it for a while but the side edges in the pictures are rather sharp while a USB connector would have a completely round edge…
But which side would you put it on?
The outside
That reminds me of a joke about a dead baby and a blender.
Am I missing something? That’s Apple’s proprietary connector, all right. But it’s not “old-fashioned” in that it’s still currently used for new devices (at least for iPads in the US).
Left: USB-C connector
Right: Apple Lightning connectorAnd USB-C has the wires on the inside (which then goes inside the port on the device). So, unless I’m mistaken, they weren’t trying to look like anything other than the VGA part, because this connector wouldn’t work for anything other than an Apple device…
You could put a sticker on the left one and (from the right angle) make it look like the right one.
Huh? Both my M1 air and iPad Pro only use USB-C. Do some of the iPads still use Apple’s lightning? These are the only two apple products I own, so I have never had any other connector. Except for a couple random items (stupid mouse), everything I own can use the same charger. Packing and traveling is so much easier.
There’s a lot of iPad Gen 1-9s out there. Not to mention iPods and older iPhones…
I knew the phones and older devices had not, but I didn’t think there were newish models of the iPads that hadn’t switched to USB-C like the Pro line did.
I seriously love it. I can use the USB4/Thunderbolt ports to connect to my Dell monitor that includes PD (power delivery) and have 1 cable for everything. All of the ports for a keyboard, flash drives, Ethernet, whatever are on the monitor.
Ah, yeah that’s true. I know we get used to only the absolute newest things being the norm, but… they still sell the Lightning models all over the world. Even in the US, this is straight from their website:
(In case it’s not obvious, the USB-C port is on the wall charger. The actual iPad has the Lightning connector.)
Our new iPad 10 came with a usb c connector too. In the US.
It’s progress! I believe that’s the only regular iPad that has ever come with USB-C. Thank the EU, which required it! Gens 1-9 had the proprietary Lightning connector…
It’s actually kind of a pain because we have so many lightning cables set up where the old iPad (RIP) and our older phones charge.
I’m also a little dubious of the longevity of usb-c ports. 2 of the 4 on my MacBook are less that reliable when plugged into the charger.
Hopefully the iPad works out. The last one lasted us almost 10 years.
look at the vga connector again. it has a little icon on it that looks like a usbc slot
You mean this? That’s on every VGA cable…
That one is a rectangle inside a rectangle. The one in the OP looks like a capsule shape inside a rectangle, more like a usbc connector, so i assumed it was an intentional add by the the person who made the thing as another layer on top of the joke.
But yeah it could also be just someone trying to be clever while whining about usbc not being adopted by iphones sooner, and the icon is off because it’s designed to be made with 3d printer without a high enough level of precision
That is a work of art.
I would want an RJ45 charger.
The single screw version looks wrong somehow.
Nice
Why are technical drawings so much cooler?
Because engieneering is so much cooler.
Fun fact: if you design in fusion 360, you can make technical drawings quite easily with only a couple clicks.
[Fact Check!] A YouTube video series says it takes 30 days to completely master. Did skillshare send you?
To completely master yeah maybe, but if you just want the cool drawings, it’ll automatically make them from your model (I meant that assuming you already use fusion).
Fun fact: FreeCAD is better
I wish
Why two different and incompatible options?
Or, more generally, why can’t I ever read some USB spec and get out with less questions than I had in the beginning?
Probably for the same reason why they decided to rename USB 3.0.
I guess they had a liquor cabinet in the room where they held their meeting
Because for some reason, the USBIF has been hit over and over again with the stupid stick ever since USB2 came out.
These are for niche needs. For most applications neither is necessary. If needed and space is constrained the single pin variant allows additional connectors to be packed together on a single PCB. The dual pin option doesn’t, it takes up space that could be used for additional connectors.
But why not make a dual screw design by adding one more screw to the bottom of the current single screw one? Would be more compact and allow them to be more cross compatible.
PCB are designed with things on top of them. Typically they are mounted with the bottom of the PCB at the bottom of a case. So following normal conventions there wouldn’t be a place for the bottom screw to go into something. Unless you used a bespoke case. It’s much easier to have the two screw design place the screws above the PCB.
It may seem like a minor change, but it costs substantial more in design time and effort. New folded steel cases and injection moulded cases would have to be developed. Designers would use a different port, or worse deploy their own two horizontal screw design. There would then be several two screw designs (metric/imperial/very close/very far etc).
Anyone with the niche need of the two screw vertical design would likely rotate the whole connector or use a flex cable to join the connector to the main board.
I se no advantage at all for the dual pin design.
It looks exactly like what I imagined by screw-lock USB connector, but the single pin seems to be a really inspired design somebody had and made the entire committee angry for some reason.
The single pin only resists force. Two pins resist torques being applied to the usb connector. The single pin does resist torque but it uses the connector potentially damaging the PCB.
Short version: looks good, functions bad
Because USB is pretty much neither universal or standardized, just the same shape and somewhat compatible
I wish things actually used this, it looks really stable.
Well, you can buy them: https://www.coolgear.com/product/usb31-type-c-to-c-dual-screw-lock-cable
That’s cool, but I wouldn’t have anything to attach it to. It would be great if my laptop had those ports though.
You usually do not want connectors to be too stable.
The fact that it unplugs before any part breaking or pushing your devices away is almost always a feature, not a bug.
Coaxial for me
25pin serial cable and ain’t nobody at work gonna steal my phone charger no more.
A power plug, but the three-prong ones like we have in the UK. The two lower prongs would appear to be plugged into the phone, and the top prong would just hover uselessly above the phone.
Bonus points for following the shape of the plug properly and having the cable come out of the bottom of the wall wart, so the phone can never lat down flat while it’s charging.
Yes, yes and hell yes.
Holy shit, man - who crapped in your doritos?
This is evil. I love it.
A 24 pin mobo power connector just to strike ptsd into those who notice.
PATA? Like how you think
I think a standard IDE connector would do just fine
The pro move there would be to physically modify it so that the power is actually going through the ribbon cable. So bulky, yet so thin!
That isn’t even a terrible idea - with that many conductors, you should be able to carry tens of amps. Use two for “Data” (detecting charger) and you’ve got… 21 positive and 21 negative. I’d not be surprised to see that hit 100W without catching fire.
You inspired at least one print. Thankfully, I have blue filament on hand!
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It’s not the same without two little screws jangling about
You could take the screws out of your iPhone and glue them onto the knobs, it’ll void your AppleCare though.
I had fuckin bent pins and pins falling out of my vga connector. I had to straighten them and align them. Good times.
this is the most comments I’ve seen on lemmy. now i know the community I’m in. God help me.
Leave a factually incorrect, unprompted whataboutism about socialism or communism in a thread criticizing capitalism and I bet you could rival this comment count.
There was a thread this week about Biden’s achievements and it got at least 600 comments haha.
Nice! I can definitely see how that would stir the pot. I’ve had a lot of good discussion on Lemmy, I really enjoy it.
I like it here too. It’s smaller, nicer than… That other, silly place.
same here please don’t get me wrong it’s been great
You mean radical right USSA president?
Anarchy in the UK!?
What, you an HDMI guy? Son, we charge our laptops with VGA cables
I had to double check I wasn’t on Reddit lol. Glad to see it.
I came back to see how many people were truly offended by this like I was and…yeah. These are my people.
Can explain to someone with english skill issue?
Op still uses VGA. And is offended. 😬
My second monitor (CRT) is using a VGA to HDMI adapter.
Not in this house!
VGA was a standard though, wasn’t it?
Yes, VESA. Same people do DisplayPort.
Terrible ideas:
- Garden hose
- NEMA 10-50 - each “prong” could be a different connector
- CCS
- USB-A
- Quick-connect air coupler
CCS to USB-C?
The first one reminds me of this classic
How about a patch cable to female aux connector? Just leave it laying around somewhere visible in the office.
Hey, I’d buy it. Maybe, I mean money is pretty tight.
An ethernet cable that’s actually wired for a serial port
looks at network hardware vendors
Sounds like someone accidentally used the wrong port a few times.
That’s what she said?
But there aren’t any screws!?
That’s a console cable. They’re actually useful.
That’s a valid use of Cat5 cable.
Lawful good: Please don’t use 8P8C for anything other than 10/100/1000BASE* compatible protocols, especially on network devices. It’s confusing.
Chaotic good: Please don’t use ethernet cable for anything other than ethernet compatible protocols, especially on ethernet devices.
Lawful evil: That’s a valid use of Cat5 cable.
Chaotic evil: Let’s talk about RS-485True neutral: Wires are just wires and standards are just standards. In a parallel dimensions, somewhere, cat5 is used for 8-phase delta mains power.
I’ve seen it
How about display port that looks like HDMI? Oh wait…
You Villain!
No, how about DVI that looks like HDMI? Hold on…
Explaination: basically HDMI is patent-troll-guarded version of DVI with some additional(and useless or actively harmful) stuff
Yes officer. This post over here.
No, seriously, why am I offended. This is offensive to me.
Probably because the screws can’t be used!
Just gonna have to 3d print a phone case with the corresponding threads, I guess.
Because that stupid proprietary connector is now illegal in the EU YAAAAY
Are you calling twitter mob?
