I still think S-video tops them all in terms of impossibility. Or TOSLINK - remember when people had all the problem inserting it because they didn't take the dust cap off? Neither one of those can you insert without carefully aligning them.
Atomic Playboy
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That's why RCA is so convenient. Which way does this plug go? Pointy side in. BAM, money. Sometimes, I'll just spend all day spinning the plug in the socket while I point at my various USB devices and laugh.
BoomerD
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Uh...not always. My fucking Coolermaster case is just the opposite.
Must be a prank by one of those damned Chinese assemblers.
William Gaatjes
Lifer
- May 11, 2008
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True. Strangely enough, the connector hardly used any more for modern usb gadgets, USB-B plug seems far more robust :
Jeffg010
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PS2 is the worst. Like Rubycon said one bent pin it is game over. I have over 10 years of tech support and we had more broken PS2 pins then any thing else. Even bran new out the box it was not 100% going to fit. I have connected 1000's of these over the years.
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lokiju
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Worst for me is when I'm trying to plug in a USB cable into the outlet just behind my headboard next to my nightstand. My bed weights a ton (probably) with my super as dense as they make tempur-pedic mattress and solid wood frame with wood foundations so moving my bed is not really an easy undertaking. This always forces me to try and fiddle with using basically the tips of my fingers trying to plugin a USB cable into a AC adapter that I cannot see or reach well.
So damn frustrating!
So damn frustrating!
If they wanted a flat plug, they should've used the hermaphroditic plug that IBM used for token ring. Not so freaking big of course, I never did understand the reason for that, but the same design.
DominionSeraph
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Rubycon
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Yes that is the best way...
However when it's been done by others with a heavier touch and pins are out of whack it becomes significantly harder to find the spot so it glides right in...
That sounds sort of kinky in a semi-metaphysical way like screwing in a dark closet with greasy walls. :twisted:
slayernine
Senior member
lxskllr
No Lifer
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Uh...not always. My fucking Coolermaster case is just the opposite.
Must be a prank by one of those damned Chinese assemblers.
My case is the same way. I always mean to flip it over when I clean it, and I never remember :^/
lokiju
Lifer
- May 29, 2003
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I need to get this.
I have a hub on my office desk at home that I went to plug into just this past weekend and it was upside down. It doesn't give good feed back though as your trying so I pressed a bit more and all the sudden everything else that was attached to the hub dropped. It really sucked cause I have a number of external hard drives and even a 4 bay hard drive enclosure all going through that.
Guess it shorted it out for a moment or something.
Thankfully nothing seems to of been damaged or of lost data from it.
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