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I rolled over a brand new cable with my office chair. Now it does this. I’m forcing myself to use it for a year as penance.
😂
Hey. I’m going to ask why? Like if you are extremely tight financially I get it. But why make yourself suffer every day if it’s not needed? It’s going to be annoying and a slight negative to your day every day.
Two reasons:
Because I’m a filthy hippy and I don’t want to throw a brand new cord in the landfill because I fucked up.
Dealing with it for a long enough time period will make me think of how I wrecked it and I won’t haphazardly leave my cables lying on the floor any more.
Ultimately it’s your life yah.
But I can’t help but think that adult humans don’t need to do penance and suffer for a year just because they made such a small mistake. It’s like a 12th century religious act.
I believe that adult humans can just learn not to do something without religious style self imposed suffering. If I burn my hand on the stove I don’t need to keep the wound in pain for a year in order to remember not to burn my hand again.
This all being said I am a humanist materialist. If people come from a spiritual background where self imposed suffering helps the soul I can see why they would do such a thing.
Calling it penance was a joke.
Ok. I’m curious now though. Do you choose to suffer unnecessarily as a joke on yourself? Is there a reason you choose to suffer when you don’t have to?
Like I can’t relate to your choice at all here and am very curious.
I don’t know what to tell you. It still works and I don’t need to move my phone while I’m working or sleeping.
I don’t consider minor inconveniences suffering.
I switched over to magnetic charging cables a few years back, and would never look back. Keeps the port protected, protects against wear out, and the cables are now universal with Micro USB and lightning devices.
This exact type of adapter fried one of the USB C ports in my macbook pro, lol
https://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/motlhn/magnetic_usbc_cables_are_not_recommended/
I use the ones that add on to an existing cable, that way I’m not bound to one cable type. Snatched like 25 of them when they were $2 on AE.
Get some needle-nosed tweezers or something very thin and use it to dig out the obscene amount of pocket lint that compacts itself down in there. Keep trying even if nothing comes out at first. This works for me every time.
I’ve found that a plastic toothpick is the perfect tool for this. It is a soft enough material not to scratch the phone but it digs out the lint. A normal wood toothpick also works, but the plastic ones tend to be thinner making them easier to scrape with.
If the phone is still having issues after that or looks visibly inside, some contact cleaner applied and scrubbed with a pipe cleaner will remove gunk.
I just used my new phone to take a picture of my old phones charging port, which worked only with some cables at certain angles, and, yeah… It’s a horror show up in there
Yeah my phone is in this stage, so I mostly charge it wirelessly now.
I’m just looking at this picture of the Hulk wearing himself as a hat.
If your port is clean and the cable isn’t messed up, maybe consider replacing the charging port or just get a wireless charger.
This. Get super fine tweezers and clean the port. Almost always full of pocket lint.
I use a slim tooth pick for port cleaning. Works perfectly!
A thin wooden toothpick (those rounded, not those flat), can do the job.
I’ve seen a clip of someone putting a dab of hot glue then pulling it out as it cools. Been meaning to try it
Depending on the materials used in the connector, this will either work, or fuck up your phone completely. If the hot glue sticks to anything built in, it’s not going to come out coherently. Cleaning it out manually would be an absolute bitch.
I hear a lot of people saying to clean the port and I agree. I’ve found with usb c it’s often very difficult to find something thin enough, but I’ve found a staple to be surprisingly good at the job
Yeah, it’s surprising how much pocket fluff gets in there. If it no longer clicks into place, chances are it needs a good clean.
Sewing pin
This is the one thing that sucks about Apple going USB-C. Lightning is easier to clean for me and my pockets are a lint factory apparently.
I have never been an apple user, but that lightning port always seemed like a good design. Seems way more durable than usb-c
The little pin that comes with phones to open the sim tray works well.
The sharp end of a safety pin did it for me
I use a disposable dental floss pick. The toothpick side is very narrow and no concern scratching too hard down in a port since it is plastic.
Dry air can does the job pretty well too.
Get a dental pick and use it to pull the lint out of the charging port
It’s me! New Cable!
Holup, is this real or fan art? When did they make Cable a twink?
German has a word for this: Wackelkontakt
There is a synth module designed specifically to replicate this effect for audio jacks:
https://bastl-instruments.com/eurorack/modules/wackel-kontakt
I have enough DIY Wackelkontakte already without ever trying…
Of course there is
This is funny?
Sadly funny, because everyone can relate at some point of their smartphone ownership.
For me:
USB-B : always doing this rather quiclky
USB-C : never does this
What about you?
I know that from microUSB but not from USB-C. You have dirt in it? Try to scoop it out with a paperclip.
Flat wooden toothpick is safer and less likely to damage it
