It's juvenile and immature, but it still cracks me up that these devices are called DONGLES. What jokester invented that name anyways?
I can hardly read or say that word to people or in the store without laughing or at least cracking a smile. "Where do you guys keep your dongles?" "Do you have a dongle for (insert your hardware need)"
You're kidding, right?
This is exactly like the car analogy posted below. I doubt you'd be saying this if you just found out your $2,500 laptop is unusable because of a faulty GPU.
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It's juvenile and immature, but it still cracks me up that these devices are called DONGLES. What jokester invented that name anyways? I can hardly read or say that word to people or in the store without laughing or at least cracking a smile. "Where do you guys keep your dongles?" "Do you have a dongle for (insert your hardware need)"
You're kidding, right? This is exactly like the car analogy posted below. I doubt you'd be saying this if you just found out your $2,500 laptop is unusable because of a faulty GPU.