How to plug in USB the right way - A simple guide on understanding the USB plug and how to plug it in

Manul Otocolobus said:
I completely agree with you. The glacial pace of USB-C adoption was caused by the latest USB still offering USB A/B, however, now that USB 4 is only USB C, USB A & B, in all their retarded forms, are officially deprecated. Everyone is finally "all in" on USB-C in just the last few years since Intel agreed to use it as their only connector Thunderbolt 4 connector (which means Apple is on board as well, I think, they are still using thunderbolt on ARM Macs, right? I'm a little out of date when it comes to Mac) and in USB 4 they have made PCIe, DisplayPort, and Power Delivery modes mandatory, so nobody will really need to use anything else for any kind of connection ranging from external monitors to hard drives to charging. With USB 4 the USB-C should finally become dominant. There is also talk that the HDMI people are thinking of switching to USB-C since it is so much smaller and easier to implement than the current HDMI plug.
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I guess we'll see, though even with USB 3 being perfectly backwards compatible, 2.0's still very common, and AFAIK you still can't get a lot of random stuff in even USB-C variants. Even the most expensive RGB keyboard Corsair's making now apparently doesn't have a USB-C version, but still does that thing where it has two USB plugs, so you can fully use it on a system without a USB 3.0 port. Which I use, because my AM4 motherboard somehow has enough 2.0 ports to waste, and I still have to conserve my precious 3.0s.

Another thing: USB-A ports on wall outlets are just now becoming a common thing. Though, I did an image search for one and saw this one with a USB-C port:
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so that's cool, I'd like to install one of those
 
Manul Otocolobus said:
How so? Explain your premise.
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Without the prongs or some other similar mechanism, any force you apply to the plug while it's inside the socket transfers directly to the middle operational part. This increases wear a lot, especially if people aren't careful. From personal experience, there was only 1 time when my oldschool USB-micro B port wore out and had to be replaced. Only one time, despite years of abuse. With USB-C things, I'm already paranoid about cables because half of them don't properly fit and there is a sizeable sample of people detailing how they fucked up their sockets on the Internet.
 
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I never understood why USB doesn't have different colored sides on both the jack and the slot, so inserting can be done from the side with no issue.
 
Wait so you're telling me the step about shoving it up your ass to 'activate' the USB cable isn't necessary?
 
Caustic Gelatin said:
Whats so hard about this? All you have to do is try to plug it in, flip it, try to plug it in again, flip it, then plug it in on the 3rd try. EZPZ.
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It's Generation FAIL.. They can fuck up even the wettest of wet dreams.
 
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