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 7 months agoMy cheap AM3 motherboard doesn’t cares about USB short circuts. So it’s HP’s deliberate miscalculation.
vodka@lemm.ee 7 months ago
vox@sopuli.xyz 7 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