As long as it’s not male-to-male electrical extension cord.
Just another list in a long line of gay exclusion.
Really this would only be useful in a FMMF bi foursome
People need to stop using gender with cabling. It’s confusing as hell. They’re plugs, which mate with (plug into) receptacles, and there are pins, which mate with sockets! Is a plug with sockets male or female? What about a receptacle with pins?
As a wire harness master, I will die on this hill.
if it has pins it’s male because it shouldn’t have any power. feminist electrical theory.
A local electronics shop around here is selling one of those as a joke. Except it has a male plug on one end and a 220 volt dryer plug on the other.
You know, I never thought about this. Presumably it would just blow a fuse or trip the breaker, right?
People want them to conveniently power their house during an outage. Plug one end into a generator, the other into a random socket, and poof! You have power (so long as your house isn’t drawing more than whatever breaker you’re plugged into)
Problem is unless you turned off the whole-house-breaker, you are now feeding electricity back upstream into the grid. This is very bad. The friendly linemen who are working to get your power back on can’t de-energize the lines they’re trying to fix and will have a hell of a time working out which house is causing the problem.
While that is true the main reason they aren’t made is not because of your stated reason, the main reason they aren’t made is because you have two live metal prongs ready to kill when one end is plugged into power.
You say kill, I say take a trip to the breaker box to reset it after a light taze.
You’ll trip a gfi breaker, but probably won’t breaker a standard 15a breaker unless you’re quite wet and very touchy-freely with the ground.
I just saw this post before reading your comment about being touchy-feely with the ground. haha
Interesting, I had never heard this. I understood people wanted them for Christmas lights, which would leave an exposed live end.
The cable itself won’t do any damage. The problem is, what ppl do with it. Also if you plug it into a socket, you get a super secure not dangerous at all live wire to touch on the other side.
Sounds delicious
I assume you mean male to male? Female to male type A is a simple extension.
Are you sure? A bunch of arcade sticks use a USB A port to plug in an official controller and bypass some chekcs for console support. I assume you actually own this and it came with a male A to male A cable in the box? As in you’re not accidentally plugging in a USB A cable going to your computer in the port meant to plug in either a console controller or a bypass dongle?
I am, to be clear, asking for a friend and was never super confused about why my brand new leverless controller wasn’t working, myself.
I have a keyboard like this, yes it came with the cable (same A male plug each end) and yes it’s used as a USB device.
I have a Type A to Type A cable. It came with a simplified music player for dementia patients that I set up for my elderly aunt. No idea why they chose to do it that way.
So that you can be frustrated trying to plug in both ends.
What’s this music player called? I’ve been scouring the internet for years looking for a simple spotify enabled “boom box” that doesn’t require you to use a phone to operate. Seems like such a simple product that seemingly doesn’t exist.
Found it. It’s the Simple Music Player from https://www.dementiamusic.co.uk/.
I’ll try to find the info. It’s been almost 10 years since I set it up. Not even sure who has it now, it’s gone from my aunt to another relative in the meantime.
Those pcie x1 to x16 adapters also use one.
Oh man I forgot about these from my mining days! Do people use these for actual pcie expansions? I’ve never needed more than most mid to high end motherboards offer
I did it once with a mid atx that had only two slots but needed a card to boot and I wanted to put a networking card in the full sized slot so used one of these for the graphics card.
These are so bad for it, it’s not even USB.
The blue cable is actually a USB cable but being used for pcie
I have one of these 8bitdo sticks. It performs well, but more importantly, it’s compact compared to other fighting sticks with similar hardware. That borderline proprietary cable gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Meh, I have at least two hdd enclosures that use that cable.
Standards don’t mean that much when the hardware manufacturer just doesn’t care
Entirely likely they figured a cable with Type A on both ends would be a cheap “proprietary” cable.
God I hate those
I had a cheapo KVM that came with that A-to-A arrangement
