• Something Burger 🍔@jlai.lu
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    1 year ago

    No one really expected USB to be used to power everything

    Yeah, it’s not like the U stands for Universal or something.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, Universal Spower Bus. Sounds right. I was reading the “power” part emphasized in the comment you replied to. Prior to mass adoption by phone mfrs, USB wasn’t powering all that much. You’d usually have 5v wall wart and cable ending in a barrel connector. Hate those things.

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        1 year ago

        I chuckled more than I would like to admit about that spelled out USB name, dunno, it’s funny

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        1 year ago

        The Universal Spower Bus

        sounds like an awesome transit vehicle!

        Let’s take a ride!

        Edit: Spower is a contraction of Space and Power. Yes, you heard me right. It’s running on spinfinite space power!

        And there you have it,

        The Universal Spower Bus:

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        1 year ago

        The barrel connector was reversible, and I don’t think I ever had one fail.

        They did always use way too much space with their AC adapter things and for whatever reason nargles liked to steal them.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not really sure what that means. The original A/B specification did not allow for much variable voltage. It’s only universal in name, not in nature. There was absolutely no way to deal with high voltage devices, the cables were not adaptive.

      USB 4.0 specification allows for powering things like electrical drills. No way the original USB A/B specification can handle that.

    • averyfalken@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      You are right to an extent but the context of its original universality is in the rest of the name. Universal serial bus. The idea was a universal port for dealing with data and connections not neccesarily power.