While walking past an office I got called in, the headmaster's secretary and the music teacher were struggling and told me the flash drive they had does not work.
So I take a look and pull the flash drive out of the Ethernet port and plugged it into a USB port and told them they need to plug it into the correct port.
The look on their faces.
But then I admitted to them that I had never seen this happen before and that I didn't know that the Ethernet port was the right width to take a flash drive.
I mentioned this can be done on a Discord server I am on and nobody would believe me so I just told them to give it a try. They probably think I was trolling to this day.
Until you find out that a usbc plug fits inside a usba port and you can mix them up when reaching around your computer. (Don't test this on anything that is powered on, I did it on accident once and it triggered my motherboards usb overcurrent failsafe)
Duude I tried blindly plugging in a USB-C at the back of my PC ones, I was like "Aha, gotcha" and then my PC just shut down. First came confusion, then I realized it wiggled left and right. That was incredibly scary, luckily ASRock has good protection circuits so nothing happened.
But I sure as hell haven't blindly plugged in USB-C since then.
I had a call to fix a guy's printer. Look at the back and he's managed to somehow jam the USB-B plug in upside down, destroying the port. He was elderly, and I don't know how he managed to apply the force needed. Luckily this printer also can be connected via ethernet. Unluckily, he had previously jammed it into the ethernet port, also destroying it.
> Golf pal of dad go to Japan for business,
> he has prostitute over,
> goes at it like a wild rabbit
> she keeps screaming "Ana chigai!! Ana chigai!!"
> he thinks she mean big praise, great or wow
> next day he go golf with japanese businessman
> Japanese man get a hole in one!
> dad pal scream "Ana chigai!" to praise him
> Japanese man turn to him, looking confused
>
> "What you mean, wrong hole?"
A classmate of mine once couldn't use the ethernet cable in the lab because the RJ45 on his laptop was all mangled. Because he was gonna watch porn at night. Porn he had on a USB stick to hide from his wife. He wasn't very happy that day.
One time I went to plug in my headphone and I accidentally plugged it into the USB port next to the jack... My laptop died and had to have parts replaced. Guy at the shop told me I shouldn't have done that 🙄. I just said they shouldn't have designed those ports to be right next to each other if the product breaks when you hit the wrong one.
Anyway, be careful about plugging shit into the wrong port.
It takes 3 tries no matter what the lighting conditions are. Also, neither of my laptops have ethernet ports. :-( Dell for work, Lenovo Carbon X1 for personal