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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michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months agoMy cheap AM3 motherboard doesn’t cares about USB short circuts. So it’s HP’s deliberate miscalculation.
It is definitely HP just being HP.
Other non HP machines we have are just fine if you shirt the USB-A ports
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