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by samdunham 1433 days ago
Because "dongle" has a very specific, different meaning. A dongle allows connection between two devices that have mismatched connectors. If someone asked me for a dongle, I'd reply, "From what to what?"
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lessbones 1432 days ago
in my world dongle is either the copy protection USB stick, or specifically the lightning-to-3.5mm headphone adapter, depending on the context...

But I guess since USB-C apple era any usb-c adapter does the dongling.

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