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I've always wondered that about these passive USB to FireWire adapters: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=firewire+to+usb+adapter

Is there something out there doing the same sort of trick as the mouse? I can't find any reference to one so as far as I can tell these things are entirely useless.



What in god's name?

There's a photo of the inside of one which just shows glue and wires, which backs up parent poster's conspiracy theory thinking about companies just making nonsense cables:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/618Us-meOFL.jpg

There are dozens of these things. All the positive reviews look fake, too.

I can't find any reference to any legitimate product ever that had some sort of passive USB/Firewire adapter.

One review points out that Firewire uses 12V power, and a few others get power warnings from their devices potentially indicating that the pins are just being shorted somewhere.




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