Male to male?
People are going to plug their phone directly into their computer without a cable?
Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way
Takumidesh@lemmy.world 4 months agoThat’s not a USB drive, it’s an adapter.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ha gayyyyy
Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 months ago
They are, but I don’t recommend it unless you want at least one of the ports to snap internally as it hangs out the front of the PC.
fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
The adapter shown is functionally identical to a usb 2 to usb c cable. I believe the meme is essentially suggesting the same thing you did with using a file explorer.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Kinda… But who the fuck has a male/female USB or usb-c cable sitting around???
One of the ends of this adapter should be female, or this should just be an A/C cord. The fact that it’s not made me think that this is actually a thumbdrive, not that I can confirm if it actually is or what OP actually meant.
fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I agree that a cable would be wildly more useful than what’s pictured, for what it’s worth.
That said (tangentially related), I have a few male/female usb cables and they’re a godsend. Extremely handy for game controllers and/or extenders for bluetooth or wireless device dongles.
Blueberrydreamer@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
Why would you need a male/female USB?
This device is basically just a really short charging/data cable. I don’t understand what’s so confusing about it. It’s functionally identical to using the standard charging cable, just with the devices closer together.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Nope, it’s a USB drive.
Quite a few of the usual memory device manufacturers make drives that have a Type A USB plug on one end, and either Micro USB or Type C on the other. They’re specifically meant for one end to easily plug into your PC, and the other end to go into your phone.
Example: pny.com/duo-link-usb-3-2-type-c-dual-flash-drive
Or: westerndigital.com/…/sandisk-ultra-dual-drive-m30…
I have one sitting in my desk that’s so old it still has a Micro USB connector on it and is therefore not terribly useful in this day and age.