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Which is the most satisfying IO connector system, in your opinion? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by nevernevermore@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Do you like a tactile click? Are you a sucker for screws? Or something you can put in any direction? Maybe it's yours or another country's power plugs?

This is sounding more sexual than I intended I think

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[-] kenblu24@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Best insertion: Displayport Locking
- Runner-up: Ethernet (RJ45), Apple 30-Pin (Locking)
Best removal: Magsafe 3
- Runner-ups: USB-C, USB-B 3.0
Best differential pair connector: Lightning (because it's so consistent feeling)
- Runner-up: USB-C
Best residential AC plug: British BS1363 (Type G)
Best lightbulb base: Bayonet B15s
- Runner-ups: GU10, GU24, Fluorescent Bi-pin
Best audio port: 6.35mm TRRS (1/4")
- Runner-ups: Banana Jacks, Neutrik SpeakON
Best video port: HDMI
- Runner-ups: RCA Composite/Component, DVI, BNC, USB-C
Best device-internal connector: JST GH series
- Runner-up: any miniature mezzanine connector

Worst differential connectors: USB micro B 3.0, any ethernet cable with a bubble boot or broken latch, mini-HDMI, micro-HDMI
Worst HF connectors: Coaxial, all miniature HF wire to board connectors (holy crap the naming is inconsistent) i.e. UFL, IPEX
Worst audio connectors: cheap 3.5mm, spring clip terminal, binding posts (especially plastic knob ones)
Worst residential AC plug: Europlug
worst device-internal connectors: wire soldered through-hole, any Molex connector or power connector inside a computer

[-] trafficnab@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Worst internal connector by far is dual USB3, the cable is so thick and unwieldly, I always feel like the pressure from trying to bend it is going to rip the header off the board

[-] kenblu24@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

TRUE especially since the pins are tiny. I bent two of them inside the shroud somehow and they snapped, so now I only have one front USB 3.0 port.

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