So excited the eyes and mouth moved over to the sides
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WD-40 is healthy, tbf.
realizes USB port is turned the wrong way. Jams it in there anyways
βNow take that you little slotβ
He was later arrested when police found micro USB pics on his computer.
It was a different time in the 80s and 90s. Programmers often played around with memory less than a megabite.
USB-CSAM
Should have gone with the mini USB instead..
WD-40 is a cleaner and not a lubricant, this is the equivalent of using soap.
Female USB A cables are explicitly forbidden in the USB A spec, so this is some very specific, possibly illegal, fetish.
I have at least a dozen USB A extension cables at work that supposedly don't exist then.
*shouldn't exist.
I'm the same with adaptors though.
You fucking criminal
They are against the spec, but they exist
So wrong. So dirty.
I've got a webcam plugged into a daisy chain of USB A extension cables 15 feet (4.5 meters) long across a room. Works fine, surprisingly.
USB-IF thinks they don't, yes.
Also I have on more than one occasion used soap as lube out of desperation. I do not recommend.
Female USB-A cables were still common enough that we've learned to accept it.
It could be a lot worse. Imagine seeing your robot looking at male-to-male power cables. Call me old-fashioned, but that's where I draw the line, no robot of mine would have such extreme tastes.
Female USB A cables are explicitly forbidden in the USB A spec, so this is some very specific, possibly illegal, fetish.
Sickening
Wait, the female end on the cables isn't allowed? I've definitely had USB A extension cables
They are against the spec, but they exist
wait why
USB A extension cables exist and work very well, so I'm not saying this is justified, but...
My guess for the rationale behind the explicit ban on female USB A cables in the spec is that signals degrade over distance and they didn't want to try to go to the extra work to make USB host and guest devices hardy enough against noise in the signal to work reliably even in the presence of extension cables.
Apparently USB host/guest devices are hardy enough against noise to handle extension cables just fine. But I'm thinking that wasn't planned to be the case by the authors of the spec. Perhaps most USB host/guest devices exceed the spec in at least that particular regard.
Clearly not all female USB A ports are banned by the spec. Female ports on USB host devices, of course, would have to be allowed or USB would be useless. Given that, I'm guessing an active (powered) extension could be strictly compliant with the spec. (Think of it as a one-port USB hub.)
As far as I know, it was mostly about not creating confusion about who is the host and who is the peripheral device.
By limiting female connections only to hosts and male connections only to peripherals, there can never be a situation where you get host/host or peripheral/peripheral.
This still begs the question: why not allow extension cables? And it seems that they don't explain anything past the roles issue.
Idk how many people Iβve had to tell in the last ~30 years that itβs an astringent and not a lube.
USB Hub is the real joke.
Ironically, it's also a great place to get general tech support.
The WD-40 is a nice touch.
Wd-40 Is not a lubricant!!
ELI5 : why does it feel like it lubricates my garage door and other metalic-y things that rub together?
So unfortunately WD-40 as a product has become actually several different products with different properties, so it's possible that yours is actually a lubricant. But if you have to reapply it often then no, it's normal WD-40. What it does is it unblocks and cleans the gaps between moving parts, and it does have a slight lubricant effect but that doesn't last long, so after a while you have moving parts, where WD-40 has removed any remnant of lubricant, rubbing against each other directly.
I see. The one I usually use doesn't explicitly say it lubricates but that it can "loosen" metals and clean them.
If it's cleaning the metal parts, then it's actually removing the oil or grease that would lubricate the mechanism. WD-40 displaces and repels water, which can make it a good choice for coating metal you need to store, and it strips oils, which makes it useful for removing old, dirty, lubricants, but it doesn't really take their place. It can be good for loosening surfaces than have bound together, but that's its cleaning function, rather than lubrication.
You'd be better off getting some proper lubricating grease for your garage door, but don't use too much, or it'll tend to trap dirt, and you'll need that WD-40 to clean it off before reapplying it!
Depending on what you are unblocking, grease or simple oil can be a longer term solution
He will be using it to clean his workspace
Anything is a lubricant if itβs hot enough.
It's the white lithium one.