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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
It’s not normal to expect someone to not have USB-A on a computer though.
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Is it not normal to expect someone to not have serial on their computer?
Standards change.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
USB-A is still widely used, serial is not.
Apple is forcing standards when there is no need, … again
SlacksMcTavish@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I don’t like it either, but in 2026 on laptops at least it is normal.
ahornsirup@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
No? Just get an adapter?
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
luluberlue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I’ll just laugh at you with my 256GB “slow” USB 3 flash drive if you ever need any boot utility like memtest or gparted then.
Who use those? Well simply people who actualy maintain computers.
BorgDrone@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
If I need any of those I simply set the machine to network-boot. I have all of those and more available as network boot images on my LAN.
Alternatively I can simply log in to the IPMI interface on any of my machines and attach the disk image as a virtual drive and boot it from that. No need to even physically go to the machine as all my x86 machines use server-grade hardware with remote management capabilities.
luluberlue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Those are not things all motherboard support, and the whole discussion stemed from laptop ports, do any consumer laptop (or any laptop at all) have IPMI?
As for PXE boot, doesn’t this one relies on the existence of a rj45 port on the target machine? Did you believe a laptop that replaced every port with usb-c somehow still had one of those?
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
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BorgDrone@feddit.nl 2 weeks 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.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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?
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks 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.
Turret3857@infosec.pub 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
“SO YOU HATE WAFFLES?”
“That’s a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talkin about?”