I converted my cable park to a USB-C cable (male to male) and lots of adapers (the short sort you can keep in a box) years ago. Yet i have still some devices with a mini-B female port.

Only thing i found online are cables and everything else. Heck, there’s even mini-DP > C and ethernet > C in that form factor.

To clarify, i look for something like this but mini-B instead of micro.

edit: Region is Swiss, Europe.

editedit: thanks guys, found one.

  • evident5051@lemm.eeEnglish
    751·
    6 months ago

    I’m confused, I just did a quick search and found one on Amazon that’s listed for about $14. Am I missing something here?

    • MonkderZweite@feddit.chOPEnglish
      34·
      6 months ago

      Maybe the region, Swiss, Europe? Google and Duckduckgo found nothing.

      But thanks, so they do exist.

      Can you give me your search term or the brand?

      • HippieWithGuns@lemmy.worldEnglish
        161·
        6 months ago

        I‘m also from the Swiss and for this stuff i always use aliexpress. Very good price and never had any issues. https://a.aliexpress.com/_mtiKwFE Just search for „usb-c to mini“ and you find lots of options. generally you can say the higher the price the better the quality. also take note of the shipping costs, sometimes costs are „hidden“ in there. PM me if you need help or have questions.

      • Revan343@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        “amazon type c to mini usb adapter” is what I googled to get the same result as them. Maybe try the same query directly on your regional Amazon page if Google isn’t helping

      • Thermal_shocked@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Nearly every single port adapter exists. People will not upgrade their stuff until absolutely necessary and will get adapters in the meantime.

        • JDPoZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          Ah yes. Good ol JXMOX… a household name in quality electronics.

          So glad this is the world we live in where a cat that’s attacking a keyboard can provide company names that fart in and out of existence every month on the monolithic online shopping monopoly site we all basically are forced to use if we need anything since RadioShack, Fry’s, and every single other boutique electronics shop is gone.

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
    13·
    6 months ago

    This thread made me realise how awesome it would be to have a specialized search engine or storefront where you can describe a custom bit of cabling or donglage based on what you need to connect together and search whether anything like that exists.

  • LeadSoldier@lemmy.world
    English
    7·
    6 months ago

    I have some around my house because I switched all of my cables to usb-C. I bought a six pack on Amazon.

    • nous@programming.devEnglish
      17·
      6 months ago

      How? Anything with a mini will be USB 2 at most and USB c defaults to lower power of USB 2 without any handshakes with the device which one with USB mini won’t do.

      • FuzzChef@feddit.deEnglish
        23·
        6 months ago

        Theoretically you could build a male to male contraption from multiple adapters and a cable. Also you could be providing too much current to a device, however this is specific to the combination of adapter, cable and power supply you use.

        • nous@programming.devEnglish
          4·
          6 months ago

          Theoretically you could build a male to male contraption from multiple adapters and a cable.

          You already can as these exist:

          letting you plug in any existing USB A to mini cables together to get a male to male device - nothing unsafe about that though. So this is not a very good reason to not allow USB C to mini adapters.

          Also you could be providing too much current to a device, however this is specific to the combination of adapter, cable and power supply you use.

          Current is pulled by the device - you cannot supply too much current. Devices take just as much current as they need or as much as the adapter can supply. The only way a device would take more than that is by badly designed or faulty - but that is a problem with the device, if the power supply can supply the power there is no issues on that side.

          Also USB C connectors can and do by default operate with USB 2 power - supplying 5V and limiting the current to the USB 2 standards and so any existing charger with USB A or mini connectors on. Thus any USB 2 device will only have access to the power given by the spec. You would require a handshake from newer USB protocols to get access to more voltage/current that some USB C chargers can supply.

          There is nothing unsafe about any other this baring faulty devices - but if we worried about faulty devices then we would not allow any electronics devices to exist as any of them could be faulty. USB C to USB mini does not dramatically increase any risk of fire or devices exploding no more so than any device using USB mini or USB C alone.

          The real reason is there is likely just not much of a market for them so they are harder to find - but they do exist.

          • FuzzChef@feddit.deEnglish
            12·
            6 months ago

            Of course those exist, but that does not make them standard compliant. Same goes for power supplies that don’t do handshakes. That’s not an issue if you exactly know what you need them for, but they’re not meant for the general public because you can use them wrong.