Emma (IPG)In the UK, due to cultural norms there is a slightly different standard for device connectivity known as "Universal Serial Double-Decker Bus" (USDDB).
mae@ipg i love sending my postcode files over USDDB
@mae hi mae
Himbeer@ipg Is this the USB 3.2 Gen 2x3 everyone is talking about?
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Andy 
#RIPYassie@ipg where do I get these adapters? I'll need it for both ends.
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Saphira Lohikäärmekettunen 
🔜 KubeCon Europe@ipg USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 without USB C :>
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️⚧️📚⧖@ipg We tried Universal Serial Bendy Bus for a while but everyone hated it.
Björn Heile@christineburns @ipg They need to be red, though.
Peter Gordon 🇺🇦@christineburns @ipg ahh you beat me to it.
dodothedev 
@ipg @marxjohnson
I was about to reply "wtf you talking about!? I work in IT, and I've never seen a Double Decker USB!"
Then I got the joke. 😂
nachtpfoetchen2️⃣@ipg is this a misinformation?
Site Reliability Enby🏳️⚧️🏁🔦📈🐺👗😷@nachtpfoetchen @ipg Parody/humour, not misinfo. But not real, yeah
Seth Junot@ipg Did you know that in the UK the C in USB-C stands for Commonwealth?
Linh PhamYes! As an ode to their British heritage and Commonwealth influence, every time someone plugs in a Mini USB cable, a chorus of polite British voices exclaim, "Oh, jolly good! You've connected a Commonwealth-approved device! Cheerio!" The royalties are used to organize tea parties, distribute scones and clotted cream, and perhaps even hire a royal corgi as the official USB-C mascot.
Mister Dave
mossfet -> EMF 2026
Alice 
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Rob Synnott
s0 Is Not A Sysadmin
vy-let
Suoko
Victor Forberger@ipg
I see the double decker makes it super speed. Yay!
I see the double decker makes it super speed. Yay!
Markus Peuhkuri@ipg One is for hot bits and the other for cold bits?
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MarjorieR@metallcorn @ipg OK it's a double decker bus, but surely not a British double decker bus?
In the UK we measure torque in the very British (and SI) Newton, not the quaint American pounds-feet.
In the UK we measure torque in the very British (and SI) Newton, not the quaint American pounds-feet.
@marjolica @ipg When I took this picture from the Internet I did not even pay attention to the text on the top, it was only the bus itself that mattered
Now I'm laughing, thank you.)
Ash@ipg Each is andled a different way so it always works regardless which way you insert.
Or never works either way you plug it in.
Or never works either way you plug it in.
Nick B. 🇬🇧 🌳@ipg Do they fit under low USB bridges?
quangobaud@ipg
If you turn the picture upside down it looks like a goth Lego mummy. 🙃
If you turn the picture upside down it looks like a goth Lego mummy. 🙃
jdw@ipg is it still subject to the USB Uncertainty Principle?
Will@ipg There actually is something that looks kind of like this that’s a standard(ish) for use in Point of Sale systems called “PoweredUSB”!
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Alany@AlanyG21
Haha that would be awesome! It’s a perfect hacker project: it’s technically interesting and challenging while being completely useless 😂
Haha that would be awesome! It’s a perfect hacker project: it’s technically interesting and challenging while being completely useless 😂
@SiteRelEnby I highly doubt that port is doing any kind of power negotiation tho.
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Jernej Simončič �
Eric Jennings@rastilin @xanarin @ipg Before you knock PoweredUSB too much, remember that back around 99-00 when POS systems starting using it, the primary USB spec couldn’t do more than 5V at 0.5A and USB-C was was over 15 years away.
These power devices that early USB just wasn’t even interested in dealing with.
And even the 1.0 versions of the USB-PD specs at 20V 5A is less than the the 24V 6A PoweredUSB ports available 20 years ago. (Although most were 12V 1.5A plugs in my experience, I worked on POS software for a few years so had tons of test hardware). It’s really only been about 5-10 years since the main USB specification caught up with USB-PD 2.0. And for a lot of those years, implementations of USB-PD were really spotty and unreliable so the hardware manufacturers didn’t have any motivation to move.
Plus… PoweredUSB also had the advantage of easily telling which way to plug it in, unlike a standard USB-A plug. For the late-90’s, it was actually pretty nice.
ahimsa@ipg My husband, part of the team who worked on USB 2.0, is howling! 😂
Enfys // TôBach 🏴@ipg double decker bus 😭
Grove
Archie "Spanner" Eligius@ipg This strongly reminds me of the Schrodinger's USB Cable problem. XD
Gorgeous na Shock!@ipg OK you're joking but show the other end of the cable.
The Witch of Crow Briar@ipg Default 240v USB