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!
Thank you for pointing that out, I didn’t notice it lmao
(I think that was a joke, it IS actually a lightning cable)
Yeah I’m not entirely sure, but it WOULD be possible to print a sticker like that
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…
But which side would you put it on?
The outside
That reminds me of a joke about a dead baby and a blender.
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 connectorAnd 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…
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?
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.
Thanks to EU regulations.
EU, I belive in you!
I believe in EU!
look at the vga connector again. it has a little icon on it that looks like a usbc slot
You mean this? That’s on every VGA cable…
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
How about display port that looks like HDMI? Oh wait…
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
You Villain!
It’s not the same without two little screws jangling about
You could take the screws out of your iPhone and glue them onto the knobs, it’ll void your AppleCare though.
I had fuckin bent pins and pins falling out of my vga connector. I had to straighten them and align them. Good times.
this is the most comments I’ve seen on lemmy. now i know the community I’m in. God help me.
Leave a factually incorrect, unprompted whataboutism about socialism or communism in a thread criticizing capitalism and I bet you could rival this comment count.
Yes officer. This post over here.
No, seriously, why am I offended. This is offensive to me.
Because that stupid proprietary connector is now illegal in the EU YAAAAY
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.
This is evil. I love it.
Yes, yes and hell yes.
Holy shit, man - who crapped in your doritos?
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
I would want an RJ45 charger.
I wish things actually used this, it looks really stable.
Well, you can buy them: https://www.coolgear.com/product/usb31-type-c-to-c-dual-screw-lock-cable
Terrible ideas:
- Garden hose
- NEMA 10-50 - each “prong” could be a different connector
- CCS
- USB-A
- Quick-connect air coupler
The first one reminds me of this classic
Make it look like an old Apple 30-pin.
That could actually be one of the more confusing ones.
Especially on an Android phone :-)
An ethernet cable that’s actually wired for a serial port
looks at network hardware vendors
Sounds like someone accidentally used the wrong port a few times.
That’s what she said?
I wanna see scart with a usbc
