Bro, just get an A-C Adapter. They are like 20cents und always useful, especially if you have old hardware
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gramie@lemmy.ca 9 hours agoAnd I have about 20 USB-A flash drives, up to 128GB, that I should just toss in the trash because…why exactly? Because they are “old”?
Juviz@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
So now we need to buy dongles for something that should be standard on a computer?
Next thing we’ll need a dongle for the power button, because Apple decided that shouting “POWER ON APPLE” is the better way to turn on a laptop.
ddplf@szmer.info 4 hours ago
Stop whining so much, there’s nothing wrong with USB-C slowly replacing USB-A and becoming a new standard.
We’d never be rid of VGA if we were listening to the ever nagging old dorks that can’t get themselves an adapter.
Juviz@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Thank you, I was just about to write a lengthy paragraph about serial ports being the only standard ever needed 😅
Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
No - but you can get a A to C adapter if you expect that you’ll bring it to someone who might only have USB C.
And from my perspective: if I expect other to being me data id expect from myself to bring such an adapter. That way I’d both parties try to remember chances are one of them have. :)
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
It’s not normal to expect someone to not have USB-A on a computer though.
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
Is it not normal to expect someone to not have serial on their computer?
Standards change.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
USB-A is still widely used, serial is not.
Apple is forcing standards when there is no need, … again
SlacksMcTavish@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
I don’t like it either, but in 2026 on laptops at least it is normal.
ahornsirup@feddit.org 9 hours ago
No? Just get an adapter?
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
USB-A to USB-C adapter. They’re inexpensive, and you don’t have to get one for each of the 30 flash drives you have.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
If it’s just for documents I may still have single digit GB memory sticks somewhere that are more than enough space.
BorgDrone@feddit.nl 7 hours ago
Who the hell still uses flash drives in 2026? Especially a slow-ass USB-A one. I can’t think of a single use-case for them.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
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BorgDrone@feddit.nl 3 hours ago
Linux distros (either install media or straight live boot disks like Tails)
What’s the advantage of using a slow USB drive instead of just network-booting the install media or mounting it through IPMI?
moving files larger than like fucking 2gb without relying on spyware or self hosting a cloud service
Just send the data between machines using SCP, much easier and faster.
redundant backups of your most important files
Backups you do either to a NAS or to a Thunderbolt-connected SSD, not a USB-A drive. Again, much too slow to use a USB drive.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 minutes ago
I don’t have internet spawning from my ass, so it works better in non-connected environments.
More importantly I have no fucking clue what any of that means, but I can plug rectangle into rectangle hole. And absolutely 0 “how to install linux” tuts come with your set-up, so I’m gonna guess most new people don’t know how to either. “Do network magic because some dickhead wants to remove all ports” isn’t going to be a selling point for them.
Can I SCP my dad the pictures of my vacation from 3 states away? Maybe. Would he prefer I mail him a “zip drive?” Yes. Not everyone on earth is a 1337 H4x0r like yourself there zero cool.
You really need your monthly 3rd redundant backup of your .kdbx file to be lightning fast? I can wait the .03 seconds it takes to transfer I’m not in as much of a hurry as you.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
What’s the advantage of using a slow USB drive instead of just network-booting the install media or mounting it through IPMI?
Why spend 30 minutes setting up the networking when I could just plug in the USB and go do something else for 5 minutes?
Turret3857@infosec.pub 9 hours ago
“all my recent flash drives have had both ports so I can use them with usb a or usb c!”
“WHAT SO I SHOULD JUST TOSS ALL MY OLD HARDWARE?”
no one said that. youre just saying shit. you can still use your usb-a flash drives.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
“SO YOU HATE WAFFLES?”
“That’s a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talkin about?”