cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cringecollective.io/post/75583

why isn’t it ok? why???

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.”

  • sundray@lemmus.orgEnglish
    191·
    4 months ago

    In the long, long ago, we used to use USB-A to A cables to transfer customers’ Mac OS X user profiles when they would buy a new Mac. Also worked with Target Disk Mode, way back when.

    • mea_rah@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 months ago

      I only remember doing this with FireWire. Which model supported target disk mode over USB-A?

      • sundray@lemmus.orgEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        Ha, old man brain glitching there. The A to A cable we used for file migration, but we had to stick an A to C adapter on one end to use TDM on some machines (had to be USB 3 rated, I think). It was around 2016, if I remember correctly? It honestly didn’t come up that often.

      • sundray@lemmus.orgEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        They did, but the first run of MacBooks we got that didn’t have Firewire would let you use USB. But we needed an A to C adapter to make that work.