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[–] 6 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

Fat USB is called USB A. The one you use for printers is USB B. Then there are mini-A, mini-B, micro-A, micro-B and USB 3.0 micro-B which are all different shapes physically. And USB A 3.0 has slightly different contacts from USB A 1.0/2.0

Anyway, that was when USB nomenclature was still simple. Don't google anything they did past version 3.0, for your own sanity. We're now down to mostly the USB C and A shapes, but USB 3.2 gen 1x1 is the same thing as USB 3.1 gen 1 is the same thing as USB 3.0.

USB 4 simplified things a bit, but now you can get things like Gen 4 asymmetric 3:1

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