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Devine Lu Linvega

> A standard Type-C/micro USB port can be inserted into or removed from a USB port for more than 10,000 times(if you insert or remove your data cable three times a day, it should last for more than 9 years)

*Looks at dead micro cable connector that is 6 months old and was disconnected once a week at most*

23 Jun 2022 at 23:39 | Open on merveilles.town
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@neauoire Hey, it's Universal Serial Bus, not Boat.

23 Jun 2022 at 23:52 | Open on merveilles.town
TronDD

@neauoire *under controlled laboratory conditions

23 Jun 2022 at 23:54 | Open on bsd.network
radioactive isosoph

@neauoire i _heard_ that small wiggling on the port is worse for it then harshly plugging/unplugging it

24 Jun 2022 at 0:15 | Open on merveilles.town
nomand

@neauoire I love type C. What I dint understand is why they opted to have a male interface have a female slot and the female interface have a male input. That's awful for durability. You have a tiny thin piece of plastic holding all the connectors that the male plug inserts around, it's just crazy.
Apple's lightning cable is way way better in regards to this - just a tab with contacts that plugs into a hole with contacts.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

24 Jun 2022 at 0:59 | Open on merveilles.town
bird girl

@neauoire When I had a device that used those and was commonly charging it, I regularly had issues with the micro USB (I think it was micro USB) charging cable dying. Like, it was a *thing*. IIRC, it would bend a teeny tiny bit and then the little bits that stick out on one side wouldn't quite be sticking out far enough to make contact and that would be the end of that, or something along those lines. I remember trying to bend them back the other way to keep them working a bit longer, but not what the success rate was ...

@neauoire When I had a device that used those and was commonly charging it, I regularly had issues with the micro USB (I think it was micro USB) charging cable dying. Like, it was a *thing*. IIRC, it would bend a teeny tiny bit and then the little bits that stick out on one side wouldn't quite be sticking out far enough to make contact and that would be the end of that, or something along those lines. I remember trying to bend them back the other way to keep them working a bit longer, but not what...

25 Jun 2022 at 0:41 | Open on hackers.town
f.rift :fire_blue:

@neauoire
I kill micro cables basically constantly. Some of the better ones have a properly sturdy connector but many are basically floating in soft plastic and die inside weeks of actual use.

25 Jun 2022 at 11:55 | Open on hackers.town
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