I'm going to tell my kids this connector was "AI"-generated.

[petrillic@hachyderm.io]

@thomholwerda looks like 6 fingers to me

[balcanquhal@tldr.nettime.org]

@thomholwerda I had an sdcard reader which was fine with USB2 B but when plugged in using that USB3 B extension, it would kill USB controllers and laptops

[jackyan@mastodon.social]

@thomholwerda Thank you for putting “AI” in quotation marks.

[schnedan@social.tchncs.de]

@thomholwerda its not that bad... technically ist not the worst USB idea.

[mossman@social.vivaldi.net]

@thomholwerda funny... I'm using one of these right now - backing up to an external hard disk which has this connection

[gerardthornley@hachyderm.io]

@thomholwerda damn, that made me laugh out loud.

I have far too many of these cables, as most of the external drives I used to buy came with them. In a pinch, it's possible to convert one into a USB 2 connector, although if you do it with a hacksaw, you need to be really diligent about cleaning up all the filings.

[nothacking@infosec.exchange]

@thomholwerda Is it bad that the most expensive USB peripheral I own uses this?

[furrybeta@shark.community]

@thomholwerda It certainly would make a lot of sense if it were

[bedast@beige.party]

@thomholwerda When this first came out, a lot of products using it got negative reviews for using "a proprietary connector". Thankfully I had already seen it before and ignored those reviews.

[alterelefant@mastodontech.de]

@thomholwerda The only USB with actual hardware compatibility.

[loic@pouet.chapril.org]

@thomholwerda I've got a scanner with one of those god forsaken plugs.

[mrdos@hachyderm.io]

@nothacking @thomholwerda Saleae logic analyzer?

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

@thomholwerda Using this to connect a hard drive as we speak.