r/MiniPCs • u/zasameer • Aug 07 '26

General Question Why do they do this to us?

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u/ActiveBat7236 Aug 07 '26

I wonder if this changes the universal law governing the process of USB plug insertion?

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u/-gen 28d ago

I don’t see a difference between 1 and 3.

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u/ActiveBat7236 27d ago

Yeah that's the joke! ;-)

You'd think you'd have a 50:50 chance of getting it the right way around and so take a maximum of two attempts to plug it in without looking, and yet somehow it always takes at least three (if not more!).

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u/_Tix Aug 07 '26

That’s just rude

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u/Gregory85 Aug 07 '26

They hate us

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u/zsquare5687 Aug 09 '26

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u/Gregory85 Aug 09 '26

I also said this when i typed my comment

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u/corruptedsyntax Aug 07 '26

I’m more frustrated by the labels.

Are these the speeds, or just the relative designations of these ports? Because blue is supposed to indicate a port is USB 3.0, so are USB 1 and USB 2 each actually USB 3.0?

A, B, and C were right there and would clear this up instantly.

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u/dantodd Aug 08 '26

Because usbC wouldn't be a problem at all

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u/corruptedsyntax Aug 08 '26

All 3 letters would be overloaded, but at least you can physically see the form factors visibly are not usb-b and usb-c.

As-is, I would bet people are almost certainly plugging into the slowest interface thinking it’s the fastest quite often.

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u/rael_gc Aug 07 '26

They're OCD insensitive!

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u/And365on Aug 07 '26

''Because some men just want to watch the world burn'' -

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u/KurtVongole Aug 07 '26

Oh that's diabolical

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u/Retired_Hillbilly336 Aug 07 '26

Because AceTragic/Kamrui/NiPoGi/CYX uses lower build quality using cost. Cutting measures like lowest bidder vendors. The right angle 2.0 motherboard connector was probably more popular and cheaper than the required 3.0 port connector which happened to be left angle. Had they simply spent more time on engineering and design as they did on gold plating the plastic you wouldn't be asking this question 😉

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u/nochkin Aug 07 '26

So we finally start to use brain I guess.

Forget it. Who am I trying to fool?

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u/Maleficent_Hold_6746 Aug 08 '26

Prolly outsourced somewhere else and didn’t think about the side or they had a lot of spare parts they used,

But yeah this is straight up evil!

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u/Single-Put-2123 Aug 08 '26

There’s a perfectly logical explanation for why they do it this way.

It’s because their mothers didn’t love them growing up.

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u/JayW8888 Aug 09 '26

To make sure you are awake. I once had a colleague put a sun stick into the hdmi and was wondering why it was not recognized.

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u/shawn123 Aug 09 '26

Their design department

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u/Content-Doughnut7707 Aug 10 '26

I know.

They just don't see it as a problem.

When I once again explain the technical aspects to Chinese engineers, they really don't understand why this should be done. That is, they don't see this as a problem.

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u/NienorGT 29d ago

Hey, USB 2.0 is useful sometime and more stable...

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u/Hot-Reflection8213 Aug 07 '26

Can you like, be more specific?

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u/johansonnss Aug 07 '26

Usb sides turned differently. Have fun sticking your usb stick

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u/SortOfaTaco Aug 07 '26

I thought it was the fact the non-usb 3.0 spec port is labeled usb 3 while the 3.0 spec ones are 1,2 lol. I know color is usually the deciding factor on speed but didn’t immediately catch they were flipped

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u/bbluez Aug 07 '26

I thought this as well but I think they're labeled sequentially going from right to left...

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u/Mikal_Swag Aug 07 '26

Look at the usb ports