• Lvxferre
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    1 year ago

    I get not making it reversible. I also get making it roughly rectangular.

    What I don’t get is making it look symmetric from the outside. It could’ve been made trapezoidal instead, so tactile feedback is enough to know the right position.

    • remotelove@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      It could have still been rectangular. All they really needed to add was a key to the housing of the connector. (Logic being that an odd shaped metal connector would be just a hair more expensive to manufacture than just adding a key position to an injection mold.)

      Trapezoid or key, it would have still been a pain when trying to insert the connector blind. Having fingered thousands of different connectors (lulz) over the years, it is still difficult to feel the orientation of a recessed female plug, regardless of its shape.