Don't think of it as a tiny cable, think of it as a gender bender. You can put on the end of some female cable.

You're more likely to see dongles like this at fixed installations. Like somebody puts a USB port into a wall, like a speaker's podium, or a presentation stand. So one side is fixed, depending on what you want to hook up to it, you might need to have a gender bender.

Ass to ass

Have you never just wanted to plug 2 PCs into each other back to back?

If you think about it, this is the USB equivalent of a double ended dildo

It turn@ a usb extension cable into a regular usb

I guess that could be a use case?

Such A-to-A adaptors and cables always have been prohibited by the USB spec, but people built them anyway. A common usecase for "illegal" A-A cables i remember was connecting PCIe cards (especially GPUs and mining cards) externally to riser sockets.

I’ve used them for extension, as it allows you to attach a second, regular USB cable to it.

Sometimes you have a female to female cable.

You ever watch Requiem For A Dream?

LUSBian sex obviously!

Say gex

I dunno but it bothers me how much plastic wrapping that fucking thing apparently needs.

To connect two USB-A ports.

Basically the same as a USB-A to USB-A cable, just really short.

I used to have a portable hard drive that had a usb-A/ e-sata hybrid connector and I had to use a USB A to A cable (or e-data) to use it.

Get 2 laptops, put them side by side with usb ports wide open and plug them bitches together. Likely will short with 5v being fed both sides.

But in reality its a usb coupler (plugging together 2x usb extension cables). Not a great lot of use from them in my opinion. I've seen shit bodged together in low budget it offices using edge case crap like this.

Ass-to-ass.

It's an Usb-A gender changer. It's not that useful but you could use it to turn an otg adapter (female usb-a to male usb-c) into a regular usb-c cable. I'd rather buy a usb-c cable though.

Many cheapo sata connectors need a cable like this(I use a male A to female micro b and then a female micro b to male A, it gets the job done)

But connector, idk