Comment on Me trying to insert a flash drive at night

tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• bonn2@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Until you find out that a usbc plug fits inside a usba port and you can mix them up when reaching around your computer.

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  • vodka@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did this (on purpose) to HP laptops we were discarding at work (Elitebook G5) and you kill the entire USB-A part of the machine.

    10/10 would HP again

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    • fl42v@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Likely RIP PCH (or the CPU, if those 2 are combined). That’s kinda weird they don’t install protection on USB ports 'cause those are like 20 cents (at least judging by those in my t480). On the other hand, HP’s gonna HP

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    • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      HP = Horrible Product

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    • michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My cheap AM3 motherboard doesn’t cares about USB short circuts. So it’s HP’s deliberate miscalculation.

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      • vox@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        same with my old lenovo laptop, i shorted both the power and data pins literally hundreds of times while tinkering with microcontrollers, and all it did is disable the ports until a reboot

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      • vodka@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It is definitely HP just being HP.

        Other non HP machines we have are just fine if you shirt the USB-A ports

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  • eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Duude I tried blindly plugging in a USB-C at the back of my PC ones, I was like “Aha, gotcha” and then my PC just shut down. First came confusion, then I realized it wiggled left and right. That was incredibly scary, luckily ASRock has good protection circuits so nothing happened.

    But I sure as hell haven’t blindly plugged in USB-C since then.

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