Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️Don't mind Steve, he's from the alternate universe where USB was implented with TRRS connectors
What size?
1/4" at first. Later they switched to 3.5mm for mini usb.
Anyway he's still annoyed at us for thinking USB-C's flippable nature is neato. He's had that functionality in USB since 1997
★ Amy Star ★@foone my iPod Shuffle circa 2008 had that!
Mx Andrew Marsden@foone It’s the USB 3.x TRRRRRRRS connectors that I’m most interested in.
DHeadshot's Alt
Sami
Wil@foone flip as in flip the right and left output depending on the vendor and the standard they implemented?
mikechislett@foone wait, you mean they never standardised with the helicopter-folk on U174 plugs?
Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs@foone in his universe speed advancement stopped at a gigabit (this is a good thing)
Colin@foone 2.5mm were the dark days.
Ame Shortail@foone *insert joke about the iPod nano using 3.5mm USB*
delta~ foxgirl 
@foone on one hand, thanks i hate it, on the other hand this might actually work out fine?
Lambda@foone you jest, but my handheld radio actually does that
Luna Lactea
Andrew@foone “oh your USB-C connectors are reversible? That’s cute”
Johann150 ⁂ 
☮@foone hows usb3 looking over there
Dźwiedziu@Johann150
USB9, they had a sane numbering scheme.
Matteꙮ Italia@foone that's the universe where digital cameras use USB mini for video composite output
Studio 8502 
@foone Hey, that could actually work pretty well, if they were a size other than 3.5mm/2.5mm. Or maybe square 3.5mm, so they don't fit in a standard audio socket?
The Witch of Crow Briar
Stephen Hoffman@foone Imagines all the bus transients arising with hot-swapping a parallel SCSI connection using T{48R}S connections.
joshie 🏳️🌈@foone look. at least you wouldn’t have to worry about orientation
robryk@foone That's actually done! I have a waterproof mp3 player that has exactly one connector: you can connect either headphones, or a USB cable there.
@foone
HE'S THE ONE
HE'S THE ONE
64kb@foone we have to go back to round connectors at some point ? Maybe there is fibre in the centre.
Tai xzo@foone The iPod shuffle did that at one point, I’ve still got one with its little USB-to-TRRS cable.
Josh Dick 
@foone And MIDI uses USB connectors. Wait a sec
@foone
Wouldn't that short across earth and power when you plug it in?
Wouldn't that short across earth and power when you plug it in?
@ddlyh Yeah. But you can get switched connector jacks, so you could make it not connect the power pins until the jack was all the way in
miifox
Dan Price@foone for USB3 did they go to those 2-in-1 3.5mm hobbies that you get on aeroplane seats?
⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe@flexplate @foone USB 3 uses the exact same TRS connector. It's just a different colour.
MaxjkZERO@foone that's just what I imagined the Robocop Data Spike to be if it were real, just a long pin with like 20 different rings for all the data lines