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
    73·
    10 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
      28·
      10 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?

        • jasep@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10·
          10 months ago

          I have a pack of these, although perhaps not this specific brand. I swear by them. Mini and micro usb can die in a fire please.

        • JDPoZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 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.

        • multitude@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          When clicking that link it came up with the last time I’ve purchased it. So as a random Internet stranger I can actually vouch for these.

          I’ve got an old Sonicare travel toothbrush that used that as a charger and really didn’t want to pack another cable. I’ve bought another pack because I ended up giving one away to a friend that lost the cable for a digital camera they use for work, and cannot use their cell phone for compliance reasons.

          In both cases it has worked fine for just charging, and for data transfer.

      • HippieWithGuns@lemmy.worldEnglish
        141·
        10 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
        5·
        10 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

  • LeadSoldier@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    10 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
      14·
      10 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
        22·
        10 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·
          10 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.