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Still fresh, damnit!
Wired used to be king, when it only ever used to be your headphone cord that broke after you caught it on something, but these days I have drawers full of half broken USB cables I really should chuck out. Never had a cable built into a mouse fail though.
I really should pull apart some of those USB cables to work out where they cheaped out. You used to have monster cables coming from your joysticks that carried two players worth of discrete signals, and they weren't that much thicker than some of these 4 core USB cables. Maybe it's a matter of current carried though - perhaps some of these thin cables aren't rated at the kind of currently I'm pumping down them when I'm charging my devices using them.
I really should pull apart some of those USB cables to work out where they cheaped out. You used to have monster cables coming from your joysticks that carried two players worth of discrete signals, and they weren't that much thicker than some of these 4 core USB cables. Maybe it's a matter of current carried though - perhaps some of these thin cables aren't rated at the kind of currently I'm pumping down them when I'm charging my devices using them.