My tech adoption generally consists of long periods of inertia punctuated with the occasional frenzy of replacement. But I’m very glad to see USB C catch on, even if it means one of those frenzies. <\/p>\n
While none of our household’s phones are yet equipped with USB C, my Asus Chromebook is, as is my GoPro camera — and I know it’s the wave of the (near-term) future. Besides the general feeling that there’s never a great time to buy new technology, though, one reason I’ve put off making a wholesale switch to USB C devices is that I have long used USB flashdrives the same way I used to use floppies. That is, I like to put photos from a particular vacation, or documents from a particular tax year, onto dedicated flash drives. They’re backups, usually, with an original on a hard drive or in cloud storage like Google Drive or Dropbox, but it comes in very handy to be able to grab a USB stick full of podcasts for my car, or to give photos to very low-technology relatives. I wanted to access data that is on some of these USB sticks on the Chromebook, but none of the flash drives I have are USB C. <\/p>\n
Last year, the discount rack at a local Big Box store gave me the perfect solution for only about $5, though typical retail is higher — about $14 at Amazon. It’s a USB C to USB A adapter<\/a>. Unlike some USB A to Micro USB OTG cables I’ve tried; after many months of use, the Belkin feels sturdy and secure. I prefer this variety of adapter (a dongle with a few inches of cable) to the stubbier kind that put the USB A plug directly in line with the USB C part, with no play. To me, those look precarious, and likely to stress the port. As frustrating as USB cables can sometimes be<\/a>, I am happy to report that this one has proved happy with all of the flash drives, USB A charging cables and powerbanks that I’ve tried it with, which means I could travel with a USB C charger without needing a separate USB A one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Connect USB-C enabled devices to USB-A devices and peripherals <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31734,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31731\/revisions\/31734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}