• EpeeGnome@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I had a call to fix a guy’s printer. Look at the back and he’s managed to somehow jam the USB-B plug in upside down, destroying the port. He was elderly, and I don’t know how he managed to apply the force needed. Luckily this printer also can be connected via ethernet. Unluckily, he had previously jammed it into the ethernet port, also destroying it.

    • rdri@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      My guys plug USB-B into the printer’s Ethernet port just fine without destroying it. I also did the same a couple times… I mean it fits perfectly.

    • bonn2@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      Until you find out that a usbc plug fits inside a usba port and you can mix them up when reaching around your computer. (Don’t test this on anything that is powered on, I did it on accident once and it triggered my motherboards usb overcurrent failsafe)

      • vodka@lemm.ee
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        7 months ago

        Did this (on purpose) to HP laptops we were discarding at work (Elitebook G5) and you kill the entire USB-A part of the machine.

        10/10 would HP again

          • vodka@lemm.ee
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            7 months ago

            It is definitely HP just being HP.

            Other non HP machines we have are just fine if you short the USB-A ports

          • voxel@sopuli.xyz
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            7 months ago

            same with my old lenovo laptop, i shorted both the power and data pins literally hundreds of times while tinkering with microcontrollers, and all it did is disable the ports until a reboot

        • fl42v@lemmy.mlOP
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          7 months ago

          Likely RIP PCH (or the CPU, if those 2 are combined). That’s kinda weird they don’t install protection on USB ports 'cause those are like 20 cents (at least judging by those in my t480). On the other hand, HP’s gonna HP

  • BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    7 months ago

    3 tries only if you’re lucky. Normally it’s upwards of 5 or even infinite until you actually look at the port

    Schrödinger’s port

  • Alcatorda@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    One time I went to plug in my headphone and I accidentally plugged it into the USB port next to the jack… My laptop died and had to have parts replaced. Guy at the shop told me I shouldn’t have done that 🙄. I just said they shouldn’t have designed those ports to be right next to each other if the product breaks when you hit the wrong one.

    Anyway, be careful about plugging shit into the wrong port.

    • bitchkat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      What connector did your headphones have? I’m trying to imagine you plugging an RCA jack into ethernet port.

      • Alcatorda@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        TIL a jack is the thingy you plug in, I thought it was the thingy you plug into.

        Um, just a normal earphones jack, I think that’s 3,5mm? Not RCA and I don’t have ethernet ports either 😄

        • bitchkat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Yeah, I meant 3.5 mm but I get lazy these days and call them all RCA jacks to mean “those perfectly fine audio jacks that have been replaced with usb and/or bluetooth”. As an unabashed pedant, I will try to do better.

          BTW, it would appear that you are correct about which end is the jack: https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/audio-jack So it was TIL that the jack is the hole you plug in to.

  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 months ago

    It’s actually very simple. Look at the hole, look at the plug and then it’s a square peg square hole situation.

    Edit: I poop in cubes.

  • HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    This happened at my first job.

    While walking past an office I got called in, the headmaster’s secretary and the music teacher were struggling and told me the flash drive they had does not work.

    So I take a look and pull the flash drive out of the Ethernet port and plugged it into a USB port and told them they need to plug it into the correct port.

    The look on their faces.

    But then I admitted to them that I had never seen this happen before and that I didn’t know that the Ethernet port was the right width to take a flash drive.

    I mentioned this can be done on a Discord server I am on and nobody would believe me so I just told them to give it a try. They probably think I was trolling to this day.

  • Plopp@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    A classmate of mine once couldn’t use the ethernet cable in the lab because the RJ45 on his laptop was all mangled. Because he was gonna watch porn at night. Porn he had on a USB stick to hide from his wife. He wasn’t very happy that day.