# Does anyone else hate that **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [July 13, 2008, 7:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-that/265837 "2008-07-13T07:19:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TheCanadian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheCanadian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheCanadian)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 7:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-that/265837/1 "2008-07-13T07:19:32Z")
USB cables can only be plugged in one way. I just downed a bottle of crown and spent 10 minutes trying to plug my iPod in šŸ˜‘ ---
**Author:** ![npgames](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/npgames/32/2914_2.png) [@npgames](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/npgames)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 7:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-that/265837/2 "2008-07-13T07:23:13Z")
thats great, i spent about 5 trying to plug a camera into my dads comp in the dark, i didnt know his ports were vertical ---
**Author:** ![saxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@saxx](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/saxx)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 7:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-that/265837/3 "2008-07-13T07:34:06Z")
lol yeah, i usually am to lazy to turn a light on\walk across the room. It take me forever to plug in my headphone jack, and then the USB just takes the cake. I usually have to get my phone out of my pocket and everything ---
**Author:** ![anon1712571](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@anon1712571](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/anon1712571)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 7:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-that/265837/4 "2008-07-13T07:40:52Z")
:lol: YES I hate that a lot. ---
**Author:** ![leisuresuitlissy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/leisuresuitlissy/32/2109_2.png) [@leisuresuitlissy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/leisuresuitlissy)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 8:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-that/265837/5 "2008-07-13T08:30:31Z")
Weā€™ve all been there šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![gigaboost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@gigaboost](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gigaboost)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 11:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-that/265837/6 "2008-07-13T11:35:58Z")
Hah, for sure. Dark room + USB = noncompatible. ---
**Author:** ![pixelSnobbery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e274bd/32.png) [@pixelSnobbery](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pixelSnobbery)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 12:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-that/265837/7 "2008-07-13T12:03:42Z")
My battery charger for my laptopā€™s just as bad - Iā€™ll be fiddling around with the back of my laptop for at least 2 minutes sometimes, as Iā€™m too lazy to look around the back to find the exact place it plugs into! ---
**Author:** ![celandine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@celandine](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/celandine)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 1:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-that/265837/8 "2008-07-13T13:29:39Z")
USB extension cables - donā€™t leave home without themā€¦ nothing worse than crawling on the floor of your office in your brand new skirt and mopping up all the dust the cleaners have left behind while trying to get to the back of a machine and find an USB slotā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![anon1712571](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@anon1712571](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/anon1712571)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-that/265837/9 "2008-07-13T13:31:53Z")
Iā€™m always afraid to leave cables behind ā˜¹ ---
**Author:** ![Templarian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/templarian/32/7152_2.png) [@Templarian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Templarian)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 1:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-that/265837/10 "2008-07-13T13:58:27Z")
This is always such a pain. (at work I have them on the left of each monitor which is sometimes annoying to find. USB stab till you win (funniest part is that a USB can go into a either net port same width) ---
**Author:** ![celandine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@celandine](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/celandine)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-that/265837/11 "2008-07-13T14:01:04Z")
Iā€™m obsessed with usb extension cables - I have one permanently hooked up to every machine I use on a regular basisā€¦ so you only have to do the one-way-lucky-stab-attempt process onceā€¦ then all usb in-plugging is easyvilleā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Esherido](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/esherido/32/2158_2.png) [@Esherido](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Esherido)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-that/265837/12 "2008-07-13T14:16:32Z")
Maybe they should put two USB ports back to back, so if whatever your trying to put into one doesnā€™t work, you know the same orientation will work for the other port. Of course youā€™d need twice as many USB ports, but itā€™s still a good idea. šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![sekasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-that/265837/13 "2008-07-13T14:17:23Z")
Not as much as I hate the fact that 2/3 of flashdens stuff is copy/pasted from tutorials and open source experiments. šŸ˜• ---
**Author:** ![nathan99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/96bed5/32.png) [@nathan99](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nathan99)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-that/265837/14 "2008-07-13T16:19:19Z")
> [@celandine;2357819](#): > > Iā€™m obsessed with usb extension cables - I have one permanently hooked up to every machine I use on a regular basisā€¦ so you only have to do the one-way-lucky-stab-attempt process onceā€¦ then all usb in-plugging is easyvilleā€¦ Well thatā€™s hardly as annoyingly fun. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowViper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@ShadowViper](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ShadowViper)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-that/265837/15 "2008-07-13T16:19:21Z")
I donā€™t have a problem because mine are in a very easy spot on the fronmt of the CPU. When I used to heng out with my dad at his work, they had computers there with weird diagonal USB ports. Those things were a \*\*\*\*\*\*\* pain in the \*\*\* to get things plugged into because you had to get _just_ the rigt angle. That and they were at the very botton of the front under this annoying lip that also had a plastic shield that went down over it. I always hated those things so much. ~Cody ---
**Author:** ![indiasfinest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5e9695/32.png) [@indiasfinest](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/indiasfinest)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-that/265837/16 "2008-07-13T16:32:22Z")
Yeah and I hate how microphone and headphone jacks are right next to each other. Oh, and god forbid you have a 5.1 or 7.1 sound card. Expect a 20 minute process of plugging it in and then running back to the computer to see if its the right one. (Unless ofcourse you have light back there) ---
**Author:** ![nathan99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/96bed5/32.png) [@nathan99](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nathan99)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-that/265837/17 "2008-07-13T16:34:59Z")
> [@indiasfinest;2357863](#): > > Yeah and I hate how microphone and headphone jacks are right next to each other. Oh, and god forbid you have a 5.1 or 7.1 sound card. Expect a 20 minute process of plugging it in and then running back to the computer to see if its the right one. (Unless ofcourse you have light back there) Yeah makes it hard. Even with the light on I canā€™t see jack because of the unfortunate positioning of my computer \ **Author:** ![TheCanadian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheCanadian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheCanadian)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-that/265837/18 "2008-07-13T17:46:33Z") I also hate the next morning. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Wheeler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-that/265837/19 "2008-07-13T18:58:12Z")
Yeah, I hate that too. Firewire is not quite rectangular which helps a lot, and audio cables are super easy ā€¦ USB sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Iamthejuggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecc23a/32.png) [@Iamthejuggler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Iamthejuggler)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-that/265837/20 "2008-07-13T19:35:26Z")
It would really be nice if they had a way of identifying which way is ā€œupā€, for sure. Although i wouldnā€™t say i hate it to be exact. The microphone/front speaker/rear speaker/bass situation though, yeah that annoys the hell out of me! [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-that/265837.md?page=2)