Using printer wirelessly on PC/Notebook, uhh this gives me nightmares...

2:03 type c can achieve this. FireWire/Thunderbolt too!

Me who already knew this but watched the video anyway

3:39 I feel a printer video/rant coming soon. SOOOO much wrong with printers. Someone make a good one allready

2:51 I agree. Those MicroUsb3Extended or what evet there called are terrible. My usb hub has one and it always comes loose and Im never sure if its ACTUALLY plugged in. Micro USB in general also sucks. My headphones use micro USB and it always falls out. Can EVERYTHING just be usb c allready

How can there "only be upstream" with DC? Either I'm misunderstanding something or that was a really poor choice of words.

Wow, had a genuine eureka moment.

Do an episode on why printer are always difficult.

Interesting that apparently printer manufacturers often don’t include a cable. All three printers I have had included all of the necessary cables, power, USB, and if they were fax-capable, a phone cord. One of them even included a nice flat Ethernet cable as well. Two of them are HP, one is a Brother.

HDMI carries power...

Anyone know how long Gigabyte GPU RMA is? I got a Gigabyte Windforce 2070 super and one of the fan died.

Do an episode on why printer are always difficult.

I've never plugged in a printer over USB

I've used USB B for years on touchscreens and receipt printers

I like it how you didn't actually talk about that weird USB connector in the thumbnail 🙃

Luckily my printer is wireless and has worked flawlessly for 8 years... cause I can only imagine the pain of trying to find one of those cables

James! Where's the clickbait connector from the thumbnail?

Ah yes, the printer. Mine decided that there's no paper, at all, in the world. So now it's just a scanner and has been for the last 5-10 years or so.

I learned a thing today!

Did you know you can charge your powerbank with your powerbank? You just plug a USB-A to USB-Micro B cable from a type A port to the micro B port and it will charge itself using itself! #FreeEnergy

I recall reading one of the original designers of usb saying the original standard was made simpler to keep the cost down.

Is it really hard to figure out a printer?

My amp uses the USB-B connector for the DAC

wait...is this a bit? They actually ignored the USB 3.0 Type B connector in the thumbnail? ha.

0:33 did you mean 3DS

James sounds like Kermit the Frog and Bill Gates.

The only computer hardware what i actually hate: printers! Lets burn them ALL!!!!!!!!!

Midi Keyboards always use a weird USB connector, as a music producer it's so annoying because if I forget the cable chances are I wont find another one easily

Yeah Type-C to be everywhere is the idea.

I have about 50 of USB-B in a box due to people using their old printer cable when getting their new printers and not even opening them. Besides a printer I never used or seen another devise use it.

erm. Ethernet cables can carry power and have identical connectors on both ends.

what about the universal transfer cable which is usb-a on both sides?

Forgot about the Mini B connector my personal favorite. And the USB 3.0 B connector in the thumbnail. There is also a bit of the standard not just for power as it had the directionality due to host and device distinctions that is until peoples mouse's started being computers on their own. Oh and you should do one on firewire and how it's nowhere near the same as USB and unofficial unstandardized FireWire to USB adapters/cables can fry things!

"you won't find other devices with usb B" *cries in arduino*

All I want to know, printers have been around as long if not longer then the computer, why the hell is it so complicated. They are extremely unreliable.

i'm using my printer wirelessly over wifi and it tends to work fine (there was a period where windows was REFUSING to recognize it untill i uninstalled the driver and had windows look for the printer...every damn time i used it) but when i got the printer and for the last i wanna say 8 month's or so it's been ez. turn on printer, open scan or send whatever you want to print to it and it does it's thing.

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James has never heard of mini hdmi

Hate to be that guy but what's the song in the background? Shazam didn't work with no break in talking 😅

Dude. Why did you not explain every type of USB except the one in the thumbnail

who cares? we have USB C now. so we dont need USB A and B anymore why even make this video with USB C u can plug in the hosts in both ends

"This is a type B connector [...] there aren't a whole lot of other devices that use it" Music Equipment: Am I a joke to you?

So where is the strange connector you reeled me in with? I hate this type of scam so I'll never watch one of yours again

you skipped right over mini USB and when straight to micro USB. Im still rocking mini USB since both my dash cams use it, my usb hub, my harmony one remote ( yah I know its a old model ).

What you mean? I have never plugged into my printer. I wirelessly print everything for at least the last 5yrs

Bur but but ethernet cable supports power. And I like my 3th option for printing, via cat5

(1:59) USB host-to-host www.datapro.net/products/usb-2-0-host-to-host-cable.html#:~:text=The%20USB%202.0%20host%2Dto,have%20a%20free%20USB%20port www.amazon.de/Goobay-Aktives-USB-Data-Link-Kabel-Daten%C3%BCbertragung/dp/B00PI7ZB9U Not a normal a-to-a cable tho, it's a crossover cable. But it can be done.

I've had so many fights with my printers in the past that I still tend to avoid trouble shooting them. Whenever a less techsavvy friend/family member asks for my help. I usually say, I don't understand printers. 🤣

You are so wrong I have a type A to A lead for a web cam also a A to A with a box in the center that is for PC to PC

1:59 RAIDMAX!!! Built my first PC is that case :-)

My Brother printer works wirelessly amazingly well for years. It has Linux drivers and a wonderful app.

"Mini" connectors were't even mentioned. 'Cause those were a thing too before the "micro" connectors.

James: You probably don't have a USB-B cable lying around Arduino users: ...

USB - Urritating Serial Bus.

Exceedingly civil and informative. I learned something here. Thank you very much for your clean presentation.

"You probably don't having one lying around" laughs awkwardly while looking at my multiple boxes of random cords from the 90's to today.

i have a usb-a to usb-a somewhere. never known what it's for. probs gonna bin it next time i see it now.

A lot, and I mean really a lot of external audio interfaces use USB type B. And it's pretty robust, construction-wise.

Love how the thumbnail cable was never mentioned. Pretty sure it's usb B 3.0. He did show usb B 2.0 however. Not the same cable

So i can't connect 2 computer by a USB cable?

it's pretty damn annoying that my DAC/amp takes that USB B connector. I don't really care that much when used from y PC, I'll just use optical anyway, but I had to get a usb B to lightning cable from my phone, and a usb B to type C for my iPad. Just make everything C already....

Even better is the Type B USB used on the XBOX Kinect 2. It has an additional power line and therefore a weird hump on it making it propietary. To use it with your computer, you have to solder in your own power to the Kinect 2 and then use a normal type B plugged into the Kinect to type A for your OC. It's a mess!

And for funnsees I set the CC option going... apparently James is speaking Vietnamese. Who knew?

"you can always use your printer wirelessly" hey guess what Google killed this time

Poor Mini-B, being so ignored.

0:39: My monitors actually use them too. I had to buy an extra one, but I believe one of the ones I have was just lying around with a bunch of other cables. I want to buy a midi adapter which uses this type of cable too. So, there are a few uses of it other than just printers.

Got a whole box of USB B connectors, once I used for so many devices. Now just using it for laser show interface control

Whats nice about the devices that have that 3.0 micro B+ with the extra bit to make more data lanes to make them 3.0 speed, is that the non-extra bit is just a normal micro-B, and in a pinch, you can use a normal micro on that side (careful plugging it in), and it will still work, just slower. This is very critical to know if you have external hard drive (or thin enclosures) with that micro-B+ and dont have/cant get the 3.0 "+" cable and really need the data off it (or moved onto one)

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So the thumbnail is a USB 3.0 type B yet they never even mentioned it...

I have like 7 USB-B Cables

My boss rammed a standard USB-B connector in to a USB-B 3.0 socket, you can guess what happened (he sheered the pin completely off).

wireless printing.. no, just no. why do i have to pay extra to get a network jack on a printer, but not wifi,i do not want or care for wifio n a printer, just a network jack i'd use a raspberry i zero if i could get arm linux drivers for printers

You left out the mini B

And what about the mini usb connector?!

you didn't even address the connector you used in the thumbnail

The last time I watched Techquickie was when Linus had the FUCKING CRINGE INTRO FOR SUBSCRIBING AT THE VERY BEGINNING. Now that it's long gone the channel is finally quality.

Nice! After this video I will start powering my gaming pc with my USB-C powerbank

You guys should rise the teleprompter a bit higher, so his eyes don't look like watching the floor all the time.

I have a whole bunch of USB A to A cables for keyboard switches. THEY DO EXIST!!!

Used to be a computer tech.. Printers are a big reason why I am no longer in the field. Idk what it is about printers either, but I hate them

My Roland drum machine and Boss katana amp use USB-B

0:07 I always wanted the USB Christmas tree, but never had the space on my desk. Although it seemed like a novelty to have something that can only be basically powered by a computer. Hold on I gotta be a Grinch and restart and turn off the tree. But now they have wallplugs with USB built in and I wouldn't be surprised if they put them right into electrical sockets....

Reminds me of the USB Rant

I'm still using that connector for my slightly older usb3.0 hdd dock

The teleprompter distracts me sooooo much

I hate type-A-to-type-A cables required by some external hard drives used by Western Digital

Ethernet cables carry power, or at least are capable of carrying power.

This video explains nothing! Why this connector exists if we already have mini usb and micro usb. Dislike!

I have one of those for the integrated USB 3.0 hub in my monitor

i use type B for microphone

USB 3.0 A to A is standard. When I see it the first time I'm confused, but that cable didn't use power lines.

Great, easy to understand overview James. Thanks. PS. I keep ALL the cables on-hand. PPS no one talks about how the little retention pins on usb micro-B must have beendesigned to wear out / break before the cable does.

bahaha

Nice clickbait...

Okay, thank you for this video. I've been wondering what would happen if I spliced a USB type A the the end of another USB cable and see what would happen if I connected two computers together. I'm glad that I haven't been curious enough to do it before watching this.

Watch Mr.Whosetheboss Arun video about chargers and Join the movement.We want chargers in the box again(Remain) for all phones. We want chargers in the box We want chargers in the box . We want chargers in the box . To hell with samsung, apple xiomi etc. We want power bricks in the box We want power bricks in the box. We want power bricks in the box . Leave the power bricks alone in the phone box. Leave the power bricks alone Leave the power bricks alone Leave the power bricks alone. STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!STRIKE!STRIKE! 👍👍 It does nothing for the environment . Check out arun video for proof that it doesnt help the environment by taking it out. Of the phone box.

TiL literally everything in this video.

2:50 AFAIK that microUSB "lobe" is actually the Japanese micro-B connector commonly found in Nikon DSLRs

They are rugged. Great for industrial use.