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[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago
[–] NathanRanch@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

Those phone cables should be compatible as USB charging cables with some kind of adapter. Gives me an idea

[–] knacht1@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Acid in your skin oils is breaking down the plasticizer in the insulation.

Has happened before here, with more than just phone\usb cables.

[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So much shit got into my phone port I started charging wirelessly and never looked back.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

I just cleaned mine out with a needle.

[–] sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

💵💵💵

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

One was designed to be rented from the phone company.

[–] thatOneGuy@aussie.zone -3 points 4 days ago (7 children)

I hate to be that that guy - but a lot of this can be boiled down to careless use. If you pull in the cable to disconnect, you’re eventually going to break it. You’re supposed to pull on the hard plastic part of the connector.

[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I’ve owned six Apple-made cables, and every single one of them broke like this. The fourth time, I gaslit myself into believing it was my fault, so I babied the cable to an extreme degree to keep it healthy. I only touched the hard plastic, I kept the cable lying in a straight line with no kinks, and I never let any force/heat/sunlight/water touch the cable even a little bit. It still went bad.

I’ve owned dozens of cheap garbage cables I bought at 1/10 the price from many brands, none of them has ever failed.

Anyone who has read or watched Silo will recognize this is because Apple put extreme R&D efforts into making sure their cables fail after an acceptable amount of time to give them plausible deniability in forcing another purchase.

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