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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Make it look like an old Apple 30-pin.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That could actually be one of the more confusing ones.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

Especially on an Android phone :-)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

this is the most comments I've seen on lemmy. now i know the community I'm in. God help me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Leave a factually incorrect, unprompted whataboutism about socialism or communism in a thread criticizing capitalism and I bet you could rival this comment count.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

An ethernet cable that's actually wired for a serial port

looks at network hardware vendors

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like someone accidentally used the wrong port a few times.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

That's what she said?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Terrible ideas:

  • Garden hose
  • NEMA 10-50 - each "prong" could be a different connector
  • CCS
  • USB-A
  • Quick-connect air coupler
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The first one reminds me of this classic

cable with an HDMI connector on one end, and a water hose connector on the other

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yes, yes and hell yes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Holy shit, man - who crapped in your doritos?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

This is evil. I love it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago

I wanna see scart with a usbc

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

How about display port that looks like HDMI? Oh wait...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

You Villain!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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 connector

And 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...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

look at the vga connector again. it has a little icon on it that looks like a usbc slot

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You mean this? That's on every VGA cable...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I believe the joke is calling Apple old fashioned for still sticking to a proprietary cable and/or calling proprietary cables old-fashioned in general. But also, Apple will be switching the iPhone cables to USB-C next gen iirc, so maybe it's also old fashioned that way?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Apple has already switched their whole lineup to USB-C as far as I can tell, currently replying to this from my USB-C iPhone 15. Even my AirPods are USB-C.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I believe in EU!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for pointing that out, I didn't notice it lmao

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

(I think that was a joke, it IS actually a lightning cable)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I'm not entirely sure, but it WOULD be possible to print a sticker like that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But which side would you put it on?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

That reminds me of a joke about a dead baby and a blender.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

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...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's not the same without two little screws jangling about

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

You could take the screws out of your iPhone and glue them onto the knobs, it’ll void your AppleCare though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I had fuckin bent pins and pins falling out of my vga connector. I had to straighten them and align them. Good times.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I would want an RJ45 charger.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes officer. This post over here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No, seriously, why am I offended. This is offensive to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Because that stupid proprietary connector is now illegal in the EU YAAAAY