• masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
    391·
    4 months ago

    How to make the transition relatively painlessly:

    1. Buy a bunch of these, and tie one to the end of every USB C cable, now you only need USB C cables around.

    1. As you get more C-C cables, buy these for your existing USB A ports:

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      4 months ago

      Should the C to micro cables always work for charging?

      Think I bought a bunk one… I never cheap out on cables anymore, of course the one time in YEARS that I do…

      • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        4 months ago

        Usb C has a default of 5V, 2A. This matches/exceeds the micro USB standards. In order to get a higher voltage, it negotiates up. (Or it’s supposed to! China can produce some NASTY exceptions!)

      • ArchRecord@lemm.ee
        6·
        4 months ago

        I’d recommend making sure whichever ones you buy explicitly say in the description that they support charging/data transfer (depending on what you want out of them) I usually end up using Amazon since it’s just harder to find these at any in-person retail stores, or other online retailers, so check their product images for those claims as well.

        Most of them are sold by dropshippers, that don’t care much about the actual functionality of their tech, so when they explicitly put it in there, it’s usually because the original manufacturer listed that feature too.

        If any of them don’t match the specs (don’t charge/transfer data) or don’t match the images (have a logo when it showed no logo), contact Amazon support and they’ll usually give them to you for free. In my experience (having bought 7 completely different adapters from various sellers) they usually work as advertised in the description, although I tend not to trust anything claiming it meets fast-charging standards. That’s usually bogus. (good thing to tell Amazon support to get them for free though 😉)

        I coincidentally bought these ones recently. They didn’t have a logo in the photo. They arrive, whaddaya know, they have a logo. Contacted support, they gave me a full refund.

      • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        Yeah, I think so…

        I do have some micro usb devices that won’t work with some newer Power Delivery Adapters, but it’s the brick part, not the USB C cable since the same cable / adapter will work with a different brick.

  • Zwiebel@feddit.orgEnglish
    26·
    4 months ago

    Are you talking about the Micro-A plugs and receptacles, Micro-AB receptacles (which accept both Micro-A and Micro-B plugs), Double-Sided Micro USB, Micro-B plugs and receptacles, or 3.0 Micro-B SuperSpeed plugs and receptacles?

  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
    231·
    4 months ago

    I was recently shopping for a Bluetooth speaker for the shower. At some point I realized that one of them used micro USB for power. Confused, I went back and looked at the others. More than half still used micro. Just… no.

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    212·
    4 months ago

    And it still is terrible. I went in a recent road trip and at one point didn’t have a charger. It’s a newer iPhone and people don’t know what usb-c is, so I tried asking for an Android charger but got this crap instead

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
      291·
      4 months ago

      The lack of this basic type of knowledge in a plug people use every single day both astounds and disappoints me. Right down to people asking me if I have a charger for one of the new iPhones.

      • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
        8·
        4 months ago

        I know, right? You use these cables EVERY FUCKING DAY. There’s a ton of stuff people need to charge. And with the proliferation of USB-C, you’d think most people would at least know what that one is. But no. Most people have no clue that there’s even a difference between USB-C, -A, micro or a Lightning cable.

        And when you ask people what plug they need they’ll tell you ‘oh it’s a Samsung’ or any other brand, like that’s supposed to narrow it down. It gets REALLY fun when someone needs something specific like a USB-C to Lightning or an A to C.

        We really have regressed since the 90s. My generation grew up learning about these new cables and plugs, but everyone born since 1995 seems to have no fucking clue.

        • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
          5·
          4 months ago

          I feel like the generations that have grown up with smartphones/tablets have a smaller understanding of how they work or the hardware inside. They’re just mystery boxes that shoot out videos and games.

          • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
            11·
            4 months ago

            It really is the proverbial double edged sword.

            I was born in 1982. The very first PC I ever used was a Commodore 64 at school. When we got our first home PC in 1996, we kids had to learn everything: how to install things, how to fix driver or OS issues, how to get software and hardware working. You basically learned how things worked, because you needed to in order to fix them. And things broke frequently.

            Back in those days, PC’s and the web were nerd domains. There was a knowledge barrier to entry.

            When we had that first PC, my dad never used it. You couldn’t explain him how to use a right mouse button, much less anything else. To this day, he’s never touched an actual PC or laptop.

            But you wouldn’t know it if saw you him on his iPad. He can stream things, email, send pictures to people, sell stuff online, talk with people… but he still has ZERO fucking idea how it works. They’ve dumbed everything down so much even a toddler and a chimp can use it. And my dad.

            But people who grew up with toddler-proof iPads and phones never had to learn how they worked. They don’t know how to fix a thing if it doesn’t do what they want. I’ve had to help teens with phone and tablet issues, because they lacked the basic skills to diagnose and fix an issue.

            I understand why people are now regressing to tech illiteracy - but it’s also frightening to see.

            • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
              2·
              4 months ago

              Yep. We’re pretty much the same age. I got a hold of a computer earlier than you did, though. It was definitely a different age of knowledge. I was flipping dip switches and upgrading ram to a whopping 4MB. Crazy that we’ve gone from 30Mhz to well over 3Ghz across 8+ cores.

  • jenny_ball@lemmy.world
    212·
    4 months ago

    yea. great. now we have a plug that looks the same but has a million different kinds of standards. hooray

    • Emmie@lemmings.world
      13·
      4 months ago

      Yeah like what do you mean I can’t use this cable to charge my VR headset? It’s usb c? Oh but that one is somehow more powerful and the other is weakling with no marking whatsoever? Fuck off

      I have one tiny white super powerful usb c cable and all the other are weaklings. Some refuse to transfer files

      If I take one of those unmarked losers on a trip just grabbing some random usb c cable I will have a bad time

          • figaro@lemdro.idEnglish
            2·
            4 months ago

            I used to keep a long one in my car, and used it to walk my dog if I happened to forget his leash. Upcycling!

        • Emmie@lemmings.world
          21·
          4 months ago

          And where to get new ones? I refuse to pay for a forking cable you know

          Those things are basic human rights. The right to get usb cable for free. I have hundreds of them and if anything I want to exchange

          Chargers same, if I see a charger on the street or anywhere I am looting that forking thing cause they don’t include these things anymore and put it into my drawer full of these things

    • buttfarts@lemy.lol
      2·
      4 months ago

      I have one very nice USB C made from the softest silicon rubber. It feels premium, never kinks and it is tough like nylon rope. It has max specs for USB C for power delivery and data transfer and it cost me $30.

      All the others are freebies that came with various devices and are all disposable compared to my “one true cord” which is the only one to enjoy being apart of my personal arsenal of accoutrements

  • drathvedro@lemm.ee
    171·
    4 months ago

    I would gladly take microusb over those magnetic pogo pins that they put on smartwatches and tablet keyboards, though.

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
      7·
      4 months ago

      I have an edc flashlight that I absolutely love, and it has a damned magnetic charger (way better type than the pogo pins) instead of a usb-c. Sure, it keeps it waterproof easier, but it sucks to have to use a proprietary plug that’s useless for anything else and have to worry about losing it or not having it.

      I’d buy the same light again, though. Nothing else as good out there.

      • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee
        3·
        4 months ago

        I’d like to know the flashlight in question as a fellow enthusiast, even though the proprietary plug is a deal breaker for me.

        • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
          2·
          4 months ago

          Lol. I guess I should have just mentioned to begin with. Here’s the link

          It’s an Olight Arkfeld Pro. Flat, nice clip, forever warranty (that I’ve used, once) nice bright green laser, and a bright UV light. The laser is just fun, but the UV light comes in handy for a lot of shade tree auto work I do and for curing UV reactive glues I use for phone repairs and windshield chip repairs, so it’s a great perk for myself to have. I got it on sale for like $70 bucks.

  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
    13·
    4 months ago

    Microusb has one feature over USBC. You can pull power from the pins without needing to solder a tiny 5kohm resistor to cc1 to tell the cable you want 5 volts.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
      51·
      4 months ago

      As an iPhone person, I thought I was late to the party. However now I’m usb-c for my phone and my watch and my tablet and my e-reader

      … but usb outlets only have one usb-c port, laptops only have one or two. Some Chargers might have multiple usb-c but they’re all dodvial purpose with different power rather than equal to charge all devices. Apparently at least some Android phones are micro usb. I was promised the rest of the world already moved on, but where are they?