I think you have them backwards, surely the Charizard is the granddad

Don’t know, never been :P

I meant her. Mike and his guitar; Sarah and her violin; The computer and its speakers.

“its” is comparable to “his” or “her”, not to e.g. “Dave’s”.

Going to concerts. It’s too loud and it’s crowded, I just don’t see the appeal.

And while we’re at it, dancing. It’s unnatural, I tell you!

When a country goes to war, internal conflicts (i.e. left wing vs. right wing) are forgotten, or at least put on hold, and everyone is suddenly on the same page.

you kid, but there’s no shortage of steam games where steam (a launcher) updates the game’s launcher

I haven’t seen them, but based on your description, I think this xkcd explains how these movies were conceived:

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Ooh, I did guess wrong! That is an interesting specimen.

My suspicion is that they are experts in ergonomics, not in electrical engineering, so they probably aren’t aware of how silly and possibly dangerous what they did is. Or perhaps they simply don’t care because “it gets the job done”, standards and specifications be damned.

Anyway, in this case I’m happy to be proven wrong. Thanks.

It makes sense, if I remember correctly the older USB cable (i.e. everything before Type-C) are passive, so as long as the pins are wired symmetrically it wouldn’t matter which side is which. But whoever made your keyboard really blundered, there is no reason in the world why anyone would do this. There’s so many options: the B connector, mini USB, micro USB. All would make sense to put in the keyboard. A just doesn’t.

Let me guess: you got it from an ultra cheap online store? AliExpress/Wish/Temu?

I think the biggest problem I see with A to A is: who’s delivering power, and who’s receiving it? Maybe if you use it only with the device it came with then it’ll be fine, but if anyone tries to just hook up that cable to two random computers, it might actually cause a short circuit and fry something.

Whereas Type-C was explicitly made to handle such situations.

Or a shorter reason: Type-C cable is allowed by the spec while Type-A is not.