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USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only usually

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

I say usually but it's basically the rule. Of all my things only the QNAP NAS has a slim side down port, and maybe that's some other convention I'm not aware of since it's for the copy-data port. That's among a random pile consisting of a Cisco networking equipment, Intel NUC, old macbook, new microsoft and HP laptops, a hdmi/usb switch, ps4, and a raspberry pi

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

Ooo so much tech, much IT /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm an IT worker so ya I have a bunch of junk and I've seen a lot of ports