On: USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (2019)

[dylan604]

what if the port was in the opposite orientation, or worse, vertically oriented?

[havefunbesafe → dylan604]

Then you'd have to close your laptop and walk into the woods forever, I suppose...

[dylan604 → havefunbesafe]

great, so a tuesday, then?

[deathanatos → dylan604]

Bedazzle the port on the "front" side, whichever way that happens to point. Then just align bedazzling.

Or just bedazzle the port if it's wrong. I've only ever once encountered a backwards port. Cough HP cough

[jdblair → dylan604]

I knew my own gear and how the ports were oriented.