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Overcome (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 43 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Headphone jack is an output. The jack they've hotwired is an input.

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  • [–] 77 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Me:

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Before the mid-to-late 1990s, on the other hand...

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Connecting cables was easy, the nightmare was getting the OS to recognise the devices.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yes, but there were so many different cable standards that you weren't always sure you had the right one on hand. USB has been such a godsend that the young'ns will never fully appreciate.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    It's hard to tell with the wire covering part of the label.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    You can see enough to tell it's an I (in), not an O (out) - plus the fact there's only room for one more letter behind the copper, as demonstrated by the hidden P in "TAPE" above. Having dealt with this sort of equipment enough in my life, those were really the only two possibilities.

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