Impossibly Hard Challenge

>>58101174
shut the fuck up OP

>>58101174
>2016
>still using cables

Just cut off the micro USB end and splice on a full USB plug. The wire colors should be the same so just match them up and you're good to go

>>58101174
You are literally retarded. Kill yourself.

>>58101174

I have 2.

Shit, one is even usb 3.

>>58101265
I'm going to do this. Thanks.

>>58101304
Liar. Image in OP is probably photoshopped.

>>58101352
I did this when I lost my cable for my cooler master mkb, it worked

>>58101352
I have one too from an external drive.

>>58101174
the struggle is real

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>>58101453
I have one that looks like it is but it actually has a notch in one side. Fucking retarded.

>>58101473
Both ends are type A.

99.999999997% of the time, if someone says they need a "USB to USB", they actually need something else.

The ONLY situation that this works is with certain types of data transfer software, and they need special drivers to do this.

If you're trying to connect two devices by their USB ports, you've made a mistake and need to rethink your problem.

>>58101174
Usb A to Usb A is in violation of the USB Specification friendo

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=usb+to+usb

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>>58101174
found it with some old shit tier external harddrive

>>58101651
R A R E

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If you had asked me this 5 min ago, I would have answered "Absolutely". But after looking through my USB bin, sorting through about 40 different cables, this is as close as I've got.

I can't really think what I'd need a Male A to Male A for anyway though.

>>58101174
I have a USB A to USB A cable, I only bought them to cut it apart and use it to make 120mm fans into USB fans for cooling my laptop

>>58101529
A crossover Ethernet cable is the proper solution for simple data transfer between 2 PCs

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>>58101651
the drive

>>58101725
Absolutely. But there are shitty software solutions that require their proprietary "USB to USB" cable.

Every tech store I've worked for so far wants us to use their crappy pain in the ass software, of course I just throw it in the trash and do it the easy way.

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>>58101174

Does this count?

>>58101760
Just cut up 2 USB cables and patch the wires together to make a USB A to USB A, nothing can possible go wrong

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>>58101774

USB 3 cable pulled from an inatech hard drive enclosure.

>>58101725
>crossover Ethernet cable
I know what you mean, but grandpa, those are not required anymore. Yes, even the cheapest modern motherboards can detect what you are connecting to it and will automatically crossover your cable.
I even set a system like this up yesterday, using just a normal ethernet cable.

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>>58101174
BUT DO YOU HAVE A DIAL UP MOUSE!

>>58101725
crossover isn't even needed anymore

>>58101599
This, but it doesn't mean such cable doesn't exist. Also checked.

>>58101802
>>58101793
Clearly you don't have people bring you old ass dells that they're upgrading

>>58101174
I have several in my cables drawer, why?

>>58101816
No, I'm not mentally retarded.

>>58101797
I've got some serial mice, but not a fucking masterpiece of a thing as that.

>>58101816
Well, it's not like they have been obsolete for long. I remember using a crossover cable for my Xbox 360 to avoid buying the expensive wifi adapter, but I don't know when they became obsolete for PCs.

>>58101174
You can't find one because it's not standard for any kind of protocol. Some very weird scenarios and hacks might call for it, but there are not enough of them to sell the cable in any kind of numbers.

I actually needed one of these a while back because I wanted to be able to use a PC to emulate a flash drive for my blu-ray player. I was going to create a virtual drive on my PC that would hold movies and let my blu-ray player connect to it through a flat USB to flat USB cable. I assume there was such a program readily available to do it, but it actually doesn't exist.

>>58101865
Like, 8 years ago or something?

>>58101174
I have one in my box of cables right now. Bought it in a lot of cables and computers online a couple months ago :^)

>>58101651
>>58101726
Is the Model M good?

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>>58101174
USB-A to USB-A connectors aren't supposed to exist because it goes against the standard. It's like trying to find a 3-prong plug to 3-prong plug power cord. It's shouldn't exist. USB-A for downstream host, USB-B for upstream device so there's no mistake on which side supplies the power and all that good stuff...

But they exist anyways because LOL FUCK YO STANDARDS!!!1

>>58101174
I have one. So what?

my newer external drive came with one of those. has two on one side for power.

>>58102354
I had one of those like 10 years ago for a garden tool. I never understood why it was done like that.

>>58102547
Presumably the company went out of business when enough people plugged them into both power sockets and blew up their houses.

>>58101174
I have one, it came with a USB hard drive enclosure.

>>58102375
>male to male
Have you told your parents yet?

>>58102375
So you're a faggot, that's what.

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How is this rare exactly? Some external HDD cases use them and so do some touch screen monitors.

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>>58101960
I like it a lot, but playing osu on it kills my fingers.

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?

>>58101174
A male to male cable?
https://www.amazon.com/Generic-Super-Feet-Male-Cable/dp/B000BSJFFC

>>58101174
UNIVERSAL Serial Bus
>normal
>micro
>mini
>square
>slim with a notch
>some other crappy special format licensed for special snowflake cameras
>male/female
>upside/downside

UNIVERSAL

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My mech keyboard uses male to male usb. What's wrong with that?

>>58101797
I bet uxwbill took this pic.

>>58104220
Don't forget purple, the third state of USB that can never be directly observed! 50% chance that the first time you try to plug a USB cable in blindly, it is purple. Flipping it makes it upside down, flipping again gets it right. Upon visual observation, USB connectors immediately change to one of the other two states.

>>58104220
The serial bus is universal, because it does everything. Doesn't say anything about the plug.

>>58101174
I have external hdd that uses that. Its been tempting, all these years and still didnt connect two computers together with it.

>>58101883
That's not how those things works.

>>58104300
Good point. Thx didn't even think about it that way, even though Im actually old enough to have hassled with old serial, centronix, game port quite a bit.

i have one. i've always wanted to try connecting 2 computers through it but too afraid to do so.

>>58101174
I have one I bought from coles for a project that didnt work out in the end

I also have one that came with my HTC Vive

>>58101174
I've got one, but shit if I remember what it came with. I hold onto it incase I ever need it.

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>>58104442
USB is designed to be host-to-device, and connecting two computers would be host-to-host, so the voltages involved could indeed damage the computers.

There are special cables that allow a USB PC-PC connection, but these have electronics in the middle of the line, so the connection is more host-device-host, and requires special software.

>>58101174

It's not supposed to exist, and it only exists for the purpose of shitty nigger tier chink shit external hard drives.

I have one for a shitty Chinese battery pack branded "Ducati" i got for free and my gf has one for an external speaker she bought in england. I hate them, devices like these which use a USB-A plug to get 5V are dangerous and these cables should not be sold

>>58101174
I use one for my keyboard

I have one for my old CM laptop stand. It has a fan that's powered by usb so it came with a usb to usb cable.

>>58102547
Holy shit that's dangerous as fuck, only time I saw an active male plug was in the country at a Friend's grandpa's house and it was handmade, europe so 220V, the old man clearly didn't know a shit about electricity.

>>58104861
Oh and OT, he even tried to explain me how to turn on a fire. Giving me old furniture's wood. With paint on it. To cook meat.
Shit, he was definitively trying to kill us

>>58104292
don't forget you're dumb as fuck

the plastic connector side on the usb cable ALWAYS face away from the way you're plugging it in

literally common sense and you can plug it in properly every time

except you're just a reddit meme spouting le epic intel advert faggot just kill yourself

The Vive link box connects to the PC with this, USB 3 flavor A male to A male

>>58104873
>turn on a fire

>>58104264
nothing. a lot of keyboards use it.

>>58104927
Not an English speaker and in my language we use the same word for fires and engines so sorry, you got it

>>58104938
>and in my language

>>58104945
>being this tolerant

>>58101174
I have one, used it the other day to connect an external hdd to my laptop.

>>58104873
"OT"?

>>58101473
That is a samsung galaxy usb cable my friend.

>>58101174
I found like 3 of these yesterday when I wanted a hdmi cable. Still didn't find that cable I'm using a goddamn vga now.

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Damn you OP, how did you know I needed one?

In my defense, I can say that's only the case with chink shit that's not USB compliant anyway, because USB-A is only meant for host devices, not clients (hence why USB-B and its mini/micro variants exists)

>>58101473
USB Micro-B 3.0 to USB A 3.0.

Have one, actually, it's for Asus' ROG Connect shit which has a specific port for it on the motherboard, and can plug into your laptop.

I have one for an external HDD. Sometimes I plug both ends on my laptop just for shit and giggles.

>>58101174
I'll do you one better. Got that, AND a bunch of M2F

>>58101682
Extension

>>58104912
>implying all USB ports you encounter ever will be facing up

>>58103472
I would like one but I feel like it's too loud.

>>58101174
>USB male to USB male

WHY OP?

Lol I have one
Its old but sometimes its useful

>>58101174
What's the use case, dumbdumb?

>>58101174
Yeah, I think I have about two USB-A-M to USB-A-M cables around here somewhere.

They're probably not all that common anymore because for the past few years USB-micro has dominated on mobile devices.

Plus, it seems like most of the printers/scanners/monitors/etc. either use USB-B on one end, or else the USB cable is permanently attached.

I think they might have realized that if they continued to encourage the proliferation of A-M to A-M cables, people might be tempted to do stupid things like try to plug both ends into the two USB-A-F host ports on two different computers, or connect their PC straight to their monitor's USB-A-F bezel convenience port. So I think they may have deliberately tried to avoid that by putting something other than a USB-A-M connector on the device side of the cable.

I get the impression that they didn't really have all the consumer-idiocy-proof concepts all completely thought out at the time they originally came out with USB, and that the industry kind of had to figure all that out over time.

>>58101174
One came with my laptop cooling pad.

>Usb Master to Usb Master
Are you retarded anon?

>>58109808
Because OP is a faggot.

>>58101191
FPBP

I have one that came with my monitor for the USB hub.

>>58106057
no actually I think that's micro usb type b, I have a lacie external hard drive with that same cable and it was from long before the galaxy s5 was out

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>>58101174

>>58101174
Best Buy sells them.

>>58113638
It's a USB 3.0 to USB 3.0 Micro. The socket is backwards compatible with original micro USB plugs.

>>58106057
underated post right here tbqh senpai

>>58103472
Osu on reds is an experience to be had, I like it with O-rings too personally, less noise and less travel.

The standard convention for USB is that USB-A was intended for host devices like computers and USB-B was intended for client devices like printers. Host to host or client to client made no sense at the time so it was specially forbidden by the standards committee. Later on mini-USB(A/B) and micro-USB(A/B) took over the regular USB-B role but the convention remained.

USB-C is the first one to break the convention with doubled ended cables although USB-OTG is now a thing for the older standards.

>>58106239
Umm extension is male and female in the same cable

>>58101174
I keep one in the drawer to my left.

>>58101725
we havnt needed crossover ethernet cables for about two decades now.

>>58101865
Once again, you havnt needed cross over for many years.
I did the same thing but with a normal ethernet cable, played like that for years with no issues.

>>58102354
>>58102547
Those are called a suicide cable, guess why.
You cant really just buy one at the store, Im sure china would sell you one.
Most people use these for BAD reasons like back feeding electric from a generator. This is retarded and you WILL kill linemen doing this.

However, I have and use one to light the garage, the electric was disconnected from it 15 years ago, but the lights and breakers still work. I plug one end into the garages outlets first, then connect the cable to the house.
Unhooking it, you disconnect from the house first, then the garage.

Before autists flip their shit, Im not the one that disconnected the electric. I dont consider this an acceptable method, and reconnecting the electric properly isnt an option.
I do however consider this a method that gets the fucking job done.

>tldr: dont do it.

>>58101174
Either your asking for a cross over cable for data transfer or you need to be euthanized

>>58102354
>goes against the standard
no it doesn't

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>>58101174
Found one immediately in my cable supplies, only USB 3.0 though

>>58106057
WD uses very-similar plugs like this on their externals

>>58120345
It's a standard micro-USB 3.0 you retard.

Pretty much every peripheral with USB 3.0 has it, except for printers who use the full sized version.

>>58119349
Let me get this straight:

You just feed electricity back into the outlet, and then you can use all the other outlets and lights and stuff?

I don't see why this wouldn't work, but I would have imagined they would put some kind of safety measure in place to prevent people from doing exactly this.
Like some kind of breaker that would drain all the charge to ground or something.

>>58101174
It's not meant to exist.
USB is a host-quest based protocol.
The big plug goes to host always.
The small plug goes to quest always.
Any manufacturer who needs a type A to type A cable is doing something horribly wrong. You can't have two hosts.

Now there's type C which is not host/quest based anymore.

>>58120408
Thats exactly what I do.

The electric works is it comes into a building
Then it goes straight to the breaker box where its split up to different breakers
The various switches lead to different things.

So what I did was, I had an extension gord that was cut anyway, so instead of adding a new female head, I just put on a male head matching the color of the mating wire inside the electric outlet for the garage.

When connected, electric goes form the cord, to the correct wires on the electric outlet circuit, thought the electric outlet breaker to the old mains input which IS DISCONNECTED.
Then it goes straight back into the other beakers > the light breaker > to the lights.
After I hoot it up, I flip the light breaker, the mains, and the electric breaker and it just werks.
Careful with the amps though, overloading wires in the extension cord or your back porch walls could set your actual house on fire.

The reason its ok for me to do this is the fact that there literally is no real electric wires going from the garage to any other circuit anywhere.

What people do is, during power outages, the do this exact same thing from a generator to their house, and leave their mains on so their neighbors can get electric too, a nice thought..
UNTIL THE LINEMEN WHO WAS IMMEDIATELY DISPATCHED GETS FRIED BY GRABBING - SHOULD BE - DEAD WIRES

If you havnt been playing with electric since you were 10,
and/or dont naturally foresee how things could go wrong well in advanced for 10 hours minimum
Dont do this.

Youll walk away to get something and your 3 year old will pull the plug out and an hero.

>>58101174
>square USB
Kek

>>58121883
yea, everyone knows usbs are circles.

>>58101174
Just make one, ya goober

>>58101174
Yes it does. But it's a data transfer cable. It's essentially useless because of this crazy thing called:
A network.

>>58101174
The replies I. This thread make me want to kill myself. Look up how usb works. It's a serial connection. Master slave blahblahnlahblah blah. A to a doesn't work because it doesn't male sense you bunch of fucking idiots.
/G/!= technology

>>58121996
Thanks for the input, phoneposter. We all know it's not compliant with USB standards, yet they still exist for some proprietary applications like Asus' ROG Connect.

>>58120409
mmf porn says otherwise

>>58104286
he found it cleaning up his poz bear sex dungeon

>>58104641
i have one of those, they are ms-windows only devices, and wont even work with wine, there is some sort of windows only executable embedded on the device in the middle of the cord

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>>58101174
come back when you have a challenge, OP

>>58101174
I have one next to my bed in a pile of electric stuff. I saw it at a thrift shop for 75 cents and thought it would be an easy way to transfer files between computers. Never actually got around to trying it out, not sure if it could just treat anther computer like an external drive or not. Cause after I got it I didn't find myself transferring as much data as I use to and often just use a USB drive or email it to myself. (I know bad practices and all, but it works for me for now)

>>58120408
>You just feed electricity back into the outlet, and then you can use all the other outlets and lights and stuff?
Yes, but if the cable is not rated to handle the amount of current that is being drawn by all these devices then it can burn up and cause an electrical fire. It's also possible for the generator to short out if the mains power kicks on and cause a fire that way. Also if the mains is not disconnected then there's a danger to linemen who are trying to restore power.

There's actually a *proper* way to do this, you need to have an electrician install a disconnect that disconnects the building from mains *before* the generator kicks on and then as long as there's no too much load on the generator then it should work safely.

>>58104641
Closest i have is one of these. I didnt buy it, it just showed up one day and now sits in a drawer.

>>58101174
>Square USB

Who the hell let's these people post here?

Ez
I have an HTC vive

>>58101174
I had one but threw it out recently because they're fucking useless.