It was always terrible

my reaction when when

You think it couldn’t get any worse than that…until you have to interact with micro HDMI

How to make the transition relatively painlessly:

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

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

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?

You guys have Micro!?

I'm still running stuff with Mini...

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

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

USB-C MOD ALL THE THINGS!

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.

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

This is my life rn. I beg for universal USB C.

I have never upvoted something so hard.

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.

It's fucking hilarious to me that the USB consortium ever allowed Universal Serial Bus cables to be made without the serial part (data transfer)

USB-C anything requires a minimum of 2.0 which is how Micro should have always been.

thank god I don't. everything I buy I make sure its USBC now

Fuck those things man

You reminded me to fit some tape in my phone's MicroUSB port, so the cable actually sits in somewhat properly. edit: I fucked it up, but it's still better.

May I have the meme format? 😄

I’m looking at you, RaspberryPi Pico2…

I went through probably 8 micro USB cables on my previous 2 phones over like a 6 year period. Since I got my current phone in 2016 I'm on my second USB c cable.

At least you knew which way it went in.

i dunno, i kind of want to hunt down every mini usb in existence and send them to the hydraulic smasher guys

USB-A dude. There’s still things that ambush me with a USB-A and I immediately return it. Micro-USB too but nothing as foul as USB-A.

USB C is better, yes, but I've never had a Micro USB fail at the connector.

The only time i was okay with micro USBs are on Oppo phones, which developed a Super VooC charging protocol on micro-usbs that was so crazy fast that plugging in the micro-usb correctly was worth it.

oppos currently at 90w charging speed, having moved onto usb-c

They've been ahead of the curve with charging for years now.

Hate with a passion

‘MRW’ <- What’s that stand for?

Edit: this has been handled appropriately in the thread…

I've used more usb gadgets than most people, as I deal with electronics a lot, but I never had a single problem with micro usb. Not sure why people hate it so much.