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I found it at the dollar store.
Such A-to-A adaptors and cables always have been prohibited by the USB spec, but people built them anyway. A common usecase for "illegal" A-A cables i remember was connecting PCIe cards (especially GPUs and mining cards) externally to riser sockets.
It turn@ a usb extension cable into a regular usb
I guess that could be a use case?
wouldn't that just make this thing longer? we'd still have the same problem
There are female-female USB extension cables. As to why those exist...
They are good for wifi/bt/radio usb receivers used for keyboard/mouse/gamepads...so they can be in a better place like higher or further.
Those still need to get plugged in to the device somehow lol
Yeah.... honestly somehow I missed the female-female part π I thought it was male-female.
Well then it's used in combination with a male male for sure otherwise yeah O don't see any use unless there is some weird device with male input.
Sometimes you have a female to female cable.
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To connect two USB-A ports.
Basically the same as a USB-A to USB-A cable, just really short.
USB-A to USB-A cables do not exist, the USB standard does not allow them, if you have a cable with two USB-A connectors then itβs not actually a certified USB cable. The same goes for USB extension cables and this adapter. Note how there isnβt a βUSB certifiedβ logo on the package.
USB-A to USB-A cables do not exist
wtf are you talking about, of course they do.
Show me where in the USB standards these are specified.
They cables and exist and they work. So being "specified" doesn't mean jack shit.
They might sometimes work. They arenβt guaranteed to work.
USB-A to USB-A doesn't exist
*looks at old charger from an American device*
HOLY SHIT A CRYPTID CALL SCP
Thatβs not a USB charger.
HOLY SHIT AN UNIDENTIFIED CRYPTID CALL SCOOBYDOO!
Itβs not hard to imagine a product that would require one, though. Itβs how every phone charging cable works, just with a different size male USB on one end.
Itβs how every phone charging cable works, just with a different size male USB on one end.
No, it's exactly not how every phone charging cable works, at least not for non USB-C cables.
Pre-USB-C cables are explicitly unidirectional. In USB there are 'hosts' (usually computers) and 'devices' (flashdrives, camera's, mice, keyboards, etc.). The host side always has a female USB-A connector, a device either has a female USB-B connector (if it's intended to be used with a cable), or a male USB-A (if it's intended to be plugged in directly into a host, like a flash drive). A real, standard-conformant USB cable can only go from USB-A male to USB-B male (with the addition of USB-C, it can also go from A-to-C, from C-to-B, or C-to-C). Never A-to-A or B-to-B, extension cables (male to female) of any type, A, B or C, are not allowed either.
USB was specifically designed like this so you can never connect a device to a device or a host to a host.
On the host side, you pretty much only see full size USB-A ports. On the device side there are 3 common types of USB-B ports: standard size (you can for example see these on printers and scanners), mini-USB-B used a lot on older phones, and later micro-USB-B. On each side the male part is on the cable, the female part is on the host or device.
LUSBian sex obviously!
I dunno but it bothers me how much plastic wrapping that fucking thing apparently needs.
You ever watch Requiem For A Dream?
ASSSSSSS TO ASSSSSSSS
It's an Usb-A gender changer. It's not that useful but you could use it to turn an otg adapter (female usb-a to male usb-c) into a regular usb-c cable. I'd rather buy a usb-c cable though.
Many cheapo sata connectors need a cable like this(I use a male A to female micro b and then a female micro b to male A, it gets the job done)
But connector, idk
Not one that short but I do have A to A cord like that in use. In my case it's with a KVM that I lost and AC adapter for but found that if I plugged in to one of the rear console connections it could get it to power on from the USB device. Cable it to a USB charging port on the front of one of the UPS and away it goes.
So your pets can't chew the hard-disk cables.
Unless you have a pet rabbit.
Angering the USB-IF
I actually have a APC UPS at work that uses a USB-A to USB-A cable. You can look up the cable online, it's part number 940-0504. I was surprised APC used such a cable. I think if you tried to do something dumb like connect two PCs together with it, one of the USB ports would fry.
pretty sure i tried it as a kid and nothing happened.
Finally! USB Direct Connect!
I have a cheap HDMI capture device that takes in video input, exposes it to the computer as a regular webcam, and then outputs it back to HDMI. It gets the job done.
It uses an USB male to male for power, and a regular one for data.
That said, not sure how a short one like that would help.