Meme “the number of people who think this is an abomination” over a photo of a USB-A to USB-A cable, “but think this is perfectly acceptable” over a photo of a USB-C to USB-C cable, “makes me sick.”

  • The Pantser@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    The top cable actually was useful for some software like PC Mover where you could back up one machine to a new one with USB instead of having to have a wired network and deal with windows horrible file sharing settings. But I think those had a bit of smarts in the middle being used as some kind of middle man processing.

    • Khanzarate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Yeah it was secretly just two cables, and some kind of microprocessor or something that faked it was a hard drive on either end, I think.