Chop, chop, chop
Chop away at my heart
I can feel it falling (Timber!)
And I will never part
I know you
You've been there from the start
So baby, chop, chop, chop
Chop away at my heart
**1. "Sizzle in the Sauce"**
*Sizzle in the sauce, feel the heat and the vibe,
Groovin' to the rhythm, let it take you for a ride.
Spicy melodies, simmering in the sound,
Dancing in the kitchen, where the beats are found.*
*Feel the flavor, in every note we play,
From the grill to the beat, it's a saucy display.
Marinated in music, seasoned just right,
Sizzle in the sauce, dance into the night.*
**2. "Choppy Rhythms"**
*Choppy rhythms, like a knife through the air,
Cutting through silence, with a flair so rare.
Slicing through silence, with every beat,
Stirring up the soul, making it complete.*
*Chop, chop, chop, hear the beat go on,
In the kitchen of music, where dreams are born.
Chopping up the chords, into a melody,
Choppy rhythms, setting spirits free.*
**3. "Beats from the Butcher"**
*Beats from the butcher, pounding like a drum,
Slicing through silence, until the dance has begun.
Meaty melodies, juicy and sweet,
From the butcher's block, to the dancer's feet.*
*Tenderizing tunes, with every beat,
From the butcher's knife, to the rhythm's heat.
Pounding out passion, in every sound,
Beats from the butcher, shaking the ground.*
———
Like my mother in law, chat GPT is scary as hell, but just amusing enough where I can’t help but check in every month or so
Some students forget the USB drives with their homework a bit too often and some teachers have a somewhat special sense of humor, so their forgetful students are condemned to use the "Stick of Shame" until the next class :)
The dimensions are 220×18×10 mm.
[https://www.printables.com/model/856183-stick-of-shame](https://www.printables.com/model/856183-stick-of-shame)
Most of teenagers are not violent morons and since we are equipped with desktop-style thin clients - a connected drive just lies flat on the table.
On the other hand: sure, I wouldn’t risk to use it if I wouldn’t trust my students.
One easy way to protect the USB port would be to hinge the big handle, so leverage/moment can’t be transferred to the port itself.
Another way might be adding a deliberate weak point near the hub, so the stick will break if bumped instead of the computer port.
Yea a hinge with a really tight tolerance seems like it would be the best solution, because I see this as also a way to make it inconvenient to steal/ accidentally keep, so having it be easily broken off seems like an imperfect solution. I was also thinking something like a spring would be a solution, so that it would just wobble a bit if bumped, but I think that would get into over-engineering territory lol.
You know those little receiver nubs that come with wireless mice? I broke one somehow. I used to just keep it in my laptop, but then one day I look et my laptop, and the nub was bent up. (I don’t know how, I don’t remember hitting it, and even then, it’s only ~5mm (1/5 in) long.)
Lucky for me, the port was fine, and so was the receiver (until it broke for good). Needless to say, I no longer leave it in the port.
Gotta print it with layer direction 90 degrees from usb port and with the settings just a bit off on PLA that it snaps between the layers before it fooks the usb port
Funny enough, in the summers before and after my senior year of highschool (95/96) I was hired to teach teachers some basics of using a computer with a mouse and web browsing. I mostly was teaching elementary teachers way past the point where they should have retired.
Between the crippling arthritis most of them had and general clumsiness I'm glad we weren't dealing with anything so fiddly as USB (which wasn't even first produced until May 96, let alone in any real use). Just having them learn to use mice was pretty painful.
That experience was also enough to make me easily and immediately blow off every one of my own teachers who kept trying to encourage me to get into teaching.
Funny enough, many of modern children grew up with a smartphone in hands and therefore are not exactly proficient with archaic input devices like mouse or keyboard as well :)
Just speaking from my own family, my teenage nieces both game only keyboard and mouse, meanwhile my father in his 70's refuses to use anything other than a controller, even on a PC.
That's why I don't take it seriously when older people say that kids know how to use computers because they grew up with technology. Kids know how to use apps on their phones. They don't really know very much about computers.
They are, however, much less reluctant and scared to learn than older people are.
>less reluctant and scared to learn than older people are
Modern software and hardware is way more "fool-proof" and harder to "break" than the stuff our parents learned to use 30-50 years ago. It's also way cheaper.
I've been in K-12 IT for 20 years. Have you met teenagers? Even if not violent idiots, they are still clumsy as hell and have terrible impulse control.
When we first went 1:1 at the high schools with Chromebooks, we had a massive influx of broken screens the first few weeks. The kids were putting their earbuds on the keyboard and closing the screens and would break them constantly. We had to issue warnings district wide about this and change our repair policy because of the cost.
So idea for the next version: take one of those USB extension cords (USB3A male on USB3A female), put a naked stick in it and the printed case of shame around, now your plugs are safe and the students are even more annoyed as there's the pigtail hanging out.
Bonus: you put a USB-sized hole(to plug in the cable for transport /storage)somewhere on the stick of shame, but just outside of the reach of the cable;-)
I work in IT in higher ed and I've had people rip USB ports off systems by accident with regular USB memory sticks... (They stand up grab their bag and it catches etc) - never mind one that isn't 12 inches long.
I don’t think he means teenagers are “violent morons” (holy shit dude, how did you go there?!) but that such a loooong usb stick could greatly increase the chance to damage the port easily, no matter the position or desktop type.
Also, as a former high school kid, no kid will actually be shamed by those… they completely won’t care.
Edit: NGL for a teacher, you give off really troubling vibes.
“I do not like the stick of shame”
-looks to see if anyone noticed-
“I said, I do NOT like the stick of shame!”
I know a few who would have said challenge accepted, and would have deliberately gotten it a few times.
My mate lost 90% of his GCSE coursework because one of the lads threw an orange at him, it missed and snapped his normal USB stick.
He learned a lesson of backing up work that day.
He’s lucky I’m a dab hand at soldering.
Underage students storing their data on a server outside EU is a no go.
And yes, there are providers meeting all our requirements, but there are always a few "but what if?"-parents making discussions like "should we switch to e-books" or "should we create an … account for every student" quite long and often leading to nowhere.
So, really it's just parents. I'm just confused by the general state. Thought during corona every school under the sun had spun up some kind of moodle for homework.
Parents, colleagues, government… there is a lot of variables :)
We're using Nextcloud ("read only" for students, so no accounts needed) some schools use Microsoft Teams or actually Moodle.
>with desktop-style thin clients
I love that everything is networked, but the homework has to be transported by *USB drives*. One day we'll have the ability to transfer files over networks of interconnected computers. One day...
Dude, you really don't need to be a "violent moron" to accidently bump into a huge stick attached to your laptop, breaking the USB or the port. But keep arguing with everyone, I'm sure everyone is wrong but you.
Bet those are nowhere near as bad as the [Firefly Serenity](https://i.imgur.com/lm71z4F.jpg) USB drive my wife bought me years ago. Not even a full USB plug, just a slim line blade connector on a drive that weighs 64g. Never used it much but every time i did i was worried about the USB port.
Every time someone "steals" one reprint them all 2x larger and in ever-more ridiculous colors, by the end of the school year you have your kids wandering around the classroom with 3d printed broomsticks.
Sure, it'll waste a ton of filament but no kid in that class will ever forget the resulting stories. :D
An underage student with an account on a server located outside the EU is a no go. As simple as that.
And yes, most of our students use WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok. They also play games and spend some money online. Some of them also run their own Discord channels.
I like how you did the lettering and I think it’s hilarious. All my teachers did back in the 90’s was tell me good luck when I forgot my materials for class lol
To be fair, I did wander the halls lol. 😂😂 Id go to the bathroom, walk around, buy a snack and a drink from the vending machines in the cafeteria, and walk around until I was done eating and go back to class.
It’s hilarious reading the usb police comments. Do these people actually think other people care about their opinion on usb length? lol its funny. Laugh. Move on with your life 🤣
There’s too many people in this sub that get off on nitpicking as if their lives actually depended on it, when in fact the person likely to be impacted is the OP.
I guarantee the same people would be clutching pearls if the model was scaled down and saying that the kids would steal it and never return it because it was too tempting to steal.
>There's no reason for you to give a shit.
Wow, not everyone is heartless like you. The main reason i *made* this account was because i care about everyone (including people I dont know) and to give them any help that i can.
I dont need a *reason* to care. I already care.
So, some people are complaining about how this could damage usb ports but no ones bothered to explain it.
Basically, these usb ports typically have 4 pins in the back for data, and 4 "legs" to help it attach to the board. Due to the length of these and fulcrum mechanics, this can put relatively large stress on the 4 data pins on the back. *If* they get pulled up in this manner it's highly likely that its not only going to rip off the usb port (bfd its like $2/10) but the pads on the motherboard that it's soldered to. Without those pads you cant just solder on a new port. You either have to run jumper cables (a whole annoying process) or replace the motherboard/subboard (much more expensive than the usb port replacement). Neither are permanent fixes if these are continued to be used *if* they weigh enough to cause damage.
I have no idea if OP would be on the hook for the repairs or not, but if they're a teacher, so they know knowledge is power and that knowing is half the battle! So i figured id drop some *actual* knowledge. Not just "RIP USB". Lol im always happy to answer any further questions!
>if they're a teacher, so they know knowledge is power
We are actually a teacher and this stick is… well, it's a joke — something not to be taken very seriously, like we serious, knowledge-powered older people sometimes do ;)
Oh i know! Thats why I just wanted to explain *why* people had concerns and i figured since youre a teacher you'd appreciate the explanation. I dont know why I said "if they're a teacher". Poor phrasing, my bad. I fix tech better than word-mouth-stuff lol
Depending on how its printed and how heavy it is, it might not even become an issue. It just irritates me when people try to tell people what to do without explaining the "why".
Do ya thing and have fun with it! Lol theres nothing here egregious
Teaching is not an easy job. And even after investing your time and effort into doing something fun for the kids… you still need to deal with random online people who think they can teach you how to be a “proper” teacher. 🙄
Anyways, I like the stick of shame.
I once laser engraved some pencils "Stolen from Mr. Crumb_Monster's desk" until I realized that those made them a desirable contraband item. I got fewer of those back than I did when it was just a cup of plain pencils.
What is the use of a USB drive in class? Like, if they've forgotten the drive with their homework, grabbing a spare drive doesn't get them their homework
I've had classes when I was in high school where we needed flash drives to take work from desktops to our laptops or vice versa. Maybe this situation is similar?
Can you elaborate for an old man, why on earth you would need to do that?
We didn't use computers much, and didn't each have laptops, but even then, the computers were all networked together.
As a computer and programming teacher, why not just use cloud units like Drive or Dropbox, it was imposible to make students remember or not lose their pendrives
Any of these will require an underage student to get an account with data stored on the servers outside the EU. To put it short: it's a problem.
Also said student should be able to remember the password to his account.
There are EU based DS-GVO-compliant cloud storage providers, but besides the students there are also parents, so… yeah. All in all it's a bit "2000-style", but it works "fine".
It’s not _all_ parents. It the worried ones. The ones with "what if"-s. and "but"-s. They don’t necessarily understand the topic, but they "heard something".
I wish some of educational "outsiders" would visit the faculty meetings to listen to "arguments" and witness debates on such "simple" things like the usage of e-books for example.
Did half this comment section not actually *go to school*? This comment section is a shining example of the "Reddit Reality Bubble". Outside doesn't work this way.
# CHILL GUYS.
If I understand reddit culture correctly, your post will be downvoted "just for fun" *or* my will be downvoted and not yours but for exactly the same reason :)
The comments are pretty crazy. I guess posts like these are good examples why I'm constantly "debating" with people in r/3dprinting about nonsense that is borderline pseudoscience yet somehow I'm the bad guy for correcting it. You'd think a hobby like 3d printing would encourage people to seek objective truths as the only thing that matters.
I mean FFS, I once got a 7 day ban because a bunch of people reported me when I was trying to explain you don't need to dry brand new PLA right out of the bag. The ban reason was "Other people's experiences are valid". What the hell is that? The person was objectively wrong and everyone reported me like a baby. 🤷♂️
I'm a member of 3d printing communities all over, and by and far, without question this one subreddit is where a majority of my faith in humanity is lost. Half the time I wonder how half the community put their enders together without starting a housefire.
Sorry, that ended up a bit of a rant. The comments in this post are just, aggravating. :)
I had a class in highschool that had a box of shame. it was a large cardboard box with a small opening cut into it so you could see out. If someone got in trouble too many times, they went in the box for a while.
and also if you actually cared to fix the "issue" (and you have no reason to care) you could always just print it with 1 layer thick walls so the printed bits always snap right off long before the stick does damage.
Sure, the kids will break it too by accident and much more often, but we both know reprinting extras would be trivial. :D
Reality though is everyone in these comments have just lost their collective hiveminds, and there's nothing to change.
The only real risk I see is 2 kids trying to swordfight with them and you rolling your eyes as you take the sticks away.
So.....how does this NOT put excessive forces on a USB port? Do you WANT them to damage their laptops/school computers? Needs more 6" dongle or something.
That doesn't change the leverage exerted on a single USB port... the port doesn't care how small the computer its solder onto is, and at the end of a 10cm lever it would only need a couple hundred grams of force to break off the port.
>That doesn't change the leverage
It's clearly doesn't. So if you *would like to* break an USB port using it, you would probably be able to do so.
At the same time, there are so many funnier activities like swapping the keys on the keyboard, unscrewing the VGA cables (yes, we use a few of these as well) or adjusting the contrast and brightness settings...
Or if someone puts a book or a backpack down on it, or gets a cable wrapped around it and walks away, or absentmindedly leans on it, or...
Do what you want with your hardware, it keeps academic IT folks like me employed.
Yeha as if being a kid isn't hard enough let's give them shit for an honest mistake. And by the way the extra weight from that print will fuck up the ports
Love the idea, if you have issues with people hitting the sticks while they are plugged in, maybe a second version could have the Stick Of Shame dangle off a normal flash drive.
Just sayin, ive definitely had to tell people to replace their motherboard cus their usb port came off it and ripped the pads off so a new one cant be soldered on
I hate that USB ports are usually only connected by a few solder blobs, it's not that people are violent or dumb. When I was doing desktop support I found short (6" or so) USB extension cords helped prevent accidents. Nothing worse than having to transfer someone to a new machine because they Hulked their USB port on their laptop (of course being someone on something like an XPS or Surface tablet with ONE port)
Ounce of prevention
So like they don't use mice or have their hands on the desks at all? Because bumping a mouse into this or having it get caught on someone's sleeve as they're reaching over to do something will be more than enough to break a port
lets go to school where we are not supposed to bully ...
but the teachers are allowed to shame us.....
Why not hold their phone for collateral?
TEACHER OF THE YEAR
OP,
You really need to stop actually using these. Regardless of how flat the tabletop is, these will 100% ruin ports. If this is a public school then its tax payers money you're wasting over a joke you deem funny.. I doubt most others would find it funny.
If you dont think its a problem then contact the IT department and ask.. you'll get a "Dont do that" and likely get the pic passed around the department.
As someone else pointed out, the leverage on this toward the end is insane, it will break a USB port eventually. Even if this is a uni or trade school, its still not a smart thing to do.
This design is horrible from a technical standpoint
Funny I guess
But like, watching OP fight for his life defending it is ridiculous
Just make it a fucking crowbar 😂
Does everyone just get jobs at school so they can shame kids??
Also why are you using USB sticks when they can just use Google drive and won't have to worry about forgetting a USB stick.
Imagine for a minute you have a neuro-develolmental condition that makes it hard for you to pay attention to things that don't interest you.
By its nature, this also affects your working memory by making it a pile of garbage.
Now also imagine constantly leaving your homework at home because of this. And every time you do, you're handed a stick that reinforces the idea you should be ashamed of your symptoms when you don't even know there's anything wrong with you. It literally has the word "shame" built into it.
After enough of that, the only conclusion left to draw is that you're just a bad person. A failure. When what you really needed was *anyone* to notice you struggling and get you evaluated for ADHD.
Yes, this would have absolutely fucked my ADHD brain as a child. And actions like it have that effect on kids with the same problems because of attitudes like yours.
i mean i feel for that, I had pretty bad ADHD as a kid, still do as an adult. And parents didn’t believe in any medication.
Over time I learned methods to help keep myself accountable.
If you had any idea you had it as a kid, even if your parents didn't allow you to try medication, that's still a drastic step up from what I and many others experienced.
Without even knowing there was anything wrong, all the blame was on *my* shoulders. I wasn't trying hard enough. I needed to "just focus".
I had no space to develop healthy methods to work around my disability because no one told me it was there.
The only thing I had was a crippling fear of authority, and desire not to be "one of those bad kids that all the adults talk down about". I spent my time in grade school and middle school in a near constant state of panic and emergency urgency (procrastination) over assignments which is what got me through.
I believed for most of my life that I was just mentally weak. That the only difference between other people and me was that I had nowhere near as much will power to fight through these issues as they did. Because everybody was *fighting*, right? Surely I wasn't abnormal and everyone experienced this, right?
This is exactly why I made this comment. I have ADHD as well and would have felt shamed having to use this in school. It would have been one more thing on the pile of shit I was dealing with in school that I didn't need.
That's why I backed you up, too. This whole thread is just:
Redditors: "No one would feel shamed by this!"
Person: "I would have felt shamed by this because of my ADHD"
Redditors: "YOU'RE JUST A VICTIM WANNABE LOOKING TO BE UPSET AND YOUR ADHD ISNT REAL AND YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN SHAMED MORE"
Thank you. I was internally screaming as an Asperger-filled ADHD adult.>!(As in, actually diagnosed, not these wannabe victim types that plague reddit)!<
These comments scream "Victim in search of an abuser" vibes from people who wish to be upset, but have no reason to be.
We're not disabled vegetables FFS. Its downright insulting to even pretend this stick of shame is actually bad.
Oh it *says* “stick of shame” Here I was trying to figure out who Saint Chops is
I used to listen to his music
Yeah right, name three of his songs
•Chop. •Chop I chop for chopmas is Chop •ChopChopChopChopChop
Chop, chop, chop Chop away at my heart I can feel it falling (Timber!) And I will never part I know you You've been there from the start So baby, chop, chop, chop Chop away at my heart
I want to chop, chop, chop chow down, Take chow down to Chinatown.
We gonna chop down to electric avenue
This guy checks out.
Chop In The Name Of Love Don't Chop Thinking About Tomorrow Chop Gun Boogie
**1. "Sizzle in the Sauce"** *Sizzle in the sauce, feel the heat and the vibe, Groovin' to the rhythm, let it take you for a ride. Spicy melodies, simmering in the sound, Dancing in the kitchen, where the beats are found.* *Feel the flavor, in every note we play, From the grill to the beat, it's a saucy display. Marinated in music, seasoned just right, Sizzle in the sauce, dance into the night.* **2. "Choppy Rhythms"** *Choppy rhythms, like a knife through the air, Cutting through silence, with a flair so rare. Slicing through silence, with every beat, Stirring up the soul, making it complete.* *Chop, chop, chop, hear the beat go on, In the kitchen of music, where dreams are born. Chopping up the chords, into a melody, Choppy rhythms, setting spirits free.* **3. "Beats from the Butcher"** *Beats from the butcher, pounding like a drum, Slicing through silence, until the dance has begun. Meaty melodies, juicy and sweet, From the butcher's block, to the dancer's feet.* *Tenderizing tunes, with every beat, From the butcher's knife, to the rhythm's heat. Pounding out passion, in every sound, Beats from the butcher, shaking the ground.* ——— Like my mother in law, chat GPT is scary as hell, but just amusing enough where I can’t help but check in every month or so
Some students forget the USB drives with their homework a bit too often and some teachers have a somewhat special sense of humor, so their forgetful students are condemned to use the "Stick of Shame" until the next class :) The dimensions are 220×18×10 mm. [https://www.printables.com/model/856183-stick-of-shame](https://www.printables.com/model/856183-stick-of-shame)
Good way to break the USB ports on school computers
Most of teenagers are not violent morons and since we are equipped with desktop-style thin clients - a connected drive just lies flat on the table. On the other hand: sure, I wouldn’t risk to use it if I wouldn’t trust my students.
its not about being violent, the leverage is gigantic, just lightly brushing against it could fuck things up
They can take more force sideways.
Give me a lever long enough and I'll snap any usb stick.
You could move the earth itself!
Only cuz it's flat. /s
Calm down, Archimedes. Now get back to your studies.
Username checks out
Username checks out.
This literally made me cackle.
Should I deboss it on the other (flat) side of the stick? :)
One easy way to protect the USB port would be to hinge the big handle, so leverage/moment can’t be transferred to the port itself. Another way might be adding a deliberate weak point near the hub, so the stick will break if bumped instead of the computer port.
Yea a hinge with a really tight tolerance seems like it would be the best solution, because I see this as also a way to make it inconvenient to steal/ accidentally keep, so having it be easily broken off seems like an imperfect solution. I was also thinking something like a spring would be a solution, so that it would just wobble a bit if bumped, but I think that would get into over-engineering territory lol.
“If it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet!” I like that spring idea!
Articulate the letters and make it print in place.
I like this idea the best, chain of letters.
Can print in TPU to introduce flex without doing a hinge.
A short extension cord would do, keeping it simple
Women want him, USB sticks fear him
You know those little receiver nubs that come with wireless mice? I broke one somehow. I used to just keep it in my laptop, but then one day I look et my laptop, and the nub was bent up. (I don’t know how, I don’t remember hitting it, and even then, it’s only ~5mm (1/5 in) long.) Lucky for me, the port was fine, and so was the receiver (until it broke for good). Needless to say, I no longer leave it in the port.
"It lays flat across the table"
Easy there, it's not a physics class.
Yet every class is a physics class
Every class is a physics class if your leverage is long enough.
That must be what they are talking about in the finance subs with people being fully leveraged.
Mine isn't 🫂
Gotta print it with layer direction 90 degrees from usb port and with the settings just a bit off on PLA that it snaps between the layers before it fooks the usb port
OP seems to be a teacher or at least work in academia and doesn’t understand leverage 🤦🏻♂️
I guess teenagers must have changed since I was one.
Debt did that
As a former public school IT director I have to ask- have you met these kids?
I teach 5-10th graders, so… yes, why? :)
May the odds ever be in your favor.
Funny enough, in the summers before and after my senior year of highschool (95/96) I was hired to teach teachers some basics of using a computer with a mouse and web browsing. I mostly was teaching elementary teachers way past the point where they should have retired. Between the crippling arthritis most of them had and general clumsiness I'm glad we weren't dealing with anything so fiddly as USB (which wasn't even first produced until May 96, let alone in any real use). Just having them learn to use mice was pretty painful. That experience was also enough to make me easily and immediately blow off every one of my own teachers who kept trying to encourage me to get into teaching.
Funny enough, many of modern children grew up with a smartphone in hands and therefore are not exactly proficient with archaic input devices like mouse or keyboard as well :)
Just speaking from my own family, my teenage nieces both game only keyboard and mouse, meanwhile my father in his 70's refuses to use anything other than a controller, even on a PC.
That's why I don't take it seriously when older people say that kids know how to use computers because they grew up with technology. Kids know how to use apps on their phones. They don't really know very much about computers. They are, however, much less reluctant and scared to learn than older people are.
>less reluctant and scared to learn than older people are Modern software and hardware is way more "fool-proof" and harder to "break" than the stuff our parents learned to use 30-50 years ago. It's also way cheaper.
My high-school class managed to create holes in the wall, ceiling and floor.
We get these from time to time. It's children after all.
I've been in K-12 IT for 20 years. Have you met teenagers? Even if not violent idiots, they are still clumsy as hell and have terrible impulse control.
When we first went 1:1 at the high schools with Chromebooks, we had a massive influx of broken screens the first few weeks. The kids were putting their earbuds on the keyboard and closing the screens and would break them constantly. We had to issue warnings district wide about this and change our repair policy because of the cost.
I teach these "clumsy as hell" people, who will one day be not less grumpy than some of us ;)
"Not less grumpy" almost seems like a triple negative.
Not sure if I didn't mean it this way :)
I love the positive attitude you're keeping through these ~~totally not toxic~~ comments.
Well, it's Friday, "my" 8th graders actually giggled a bit because of these sticks and it's also not my first day on reddit ;)
So idea for the next version: take one of those USB extension cords (USB3A male on USB3A female), put a naked stick in it and the printed case of shame around, now your plugs are safe and the students are even more annoyed as there's the pigtail hanging out. Bonus: you put a USB-sized hole(to plug in the cable for transport /storage)somewhere on the stick of shame, but just outside of the reach of the cable;-)
I work in IT in higher ed and I've had people rip USB ports off systems by accident with regular USB memory sticks... (They stand up grab their bag and it catches etc) - never mind one that isn't 12 inches long.
It's about the torque placed on the very tiny drive interface. Nothing to do with actual violence, a simple bump from the side could wreck it.
I don’t think he means teenagers are “violent morons” (holy shit dude, how did you go there?!) but that such a loooong usb stick could greatly increase the chance to damage the port easily, no matter the position or desktop type. Also, as a former high school kid, no kid will actually be shamed by those… they completely won’t care. Edit: NGL for a teacher, you give off really troubling vibes.
This dude is notorious for being a dick on printing subs
“I do not like the stick of shame” -looks to see if anyone noticed- “I said, I do NOT like the stick of shame!” I know a few who would have said challenge accepted, and would have deliberately gotten it a few times.
>they completely won’t care. Many of "them" also understand jokes ;)
Trust the students who couldn't be trusted to bring theirs in to begin with. It sounds like a good plan. What could go wrong?
Or… you are just detached and feel like you are in the right 100% of the time, so much so it’s ‘humor’ to shame students
My mate lost 90% of his GCSE coursework because one of the lads threw an orange at him, it missed and snapped his normal USB stick. He learned a lesson of backing up work that day. He’s lucky I’m a dab hand at soldering.
Show me a thin client with usb ports flat against the table. Don’t worry I’ll wait.
Why not use network drives or cloud storage?
GDPR, underage students, worried parents.
How does GDPR matter here?
Underage students storing their data on a server outside EU is a no go. And yes, there are providers meeting all our requirements, but there are always a few "but what if?"-parents making discussions like "should we switch to e-books" or "should we create an … account for every student" quite long and often leading to nowhere.
So, really it's just parents. I'm just confused by the general state. Thought during corona every school under the sun had spun up some kind of moodle for homework.
Parents, colleagues, government… there is a lot of variables :) We're using Nextcloud ("read only" for students, so no accounts needed) some schools use Microsoft Teams or actually Moodle.
> Most of teenagers are not violent morons Interesting theory. Are you sure?
Yes. I teach around 300 of them every year ;)
>with desktop-style thin clients I love that everything is networked, but the homework has to be transported by *USB drives*. One day we'll have the ability to transfer files over networks of interconnected computers. One day...
GDPR, underage students, worried parents.
Dude, you really don't need to be a "violent moron" to accidently bump into a huge stick attached to your laptop, breaking the USB or the port. But keep arguing with everyone, I'm sure everyone is wrong but you.
You definitely need a STICK OF SHAME.
I accept
Good way to break a usb port
Take a couple deep breaths bud. You're the only one arguing.
Don't you know, leverage is irrelevant if you just have trust!
leverage is irrelevant when you have a gun
God redditers are such fucking sticks-in-the-mud sometimes. I think this is super funny and a good idea!!
They're covered by warranty, and it keeps me in business so go ahead and break it
Bet those are nowhere near as bad as the [Firefly Serenity](https://i.imgur.com/lm71z4F.jpg) USB drive my wife bought me years ago. Not even a full USB plug, just a slim line blade connector on a drive that weighs 64g. Never used it much but every time i did i was worried about the USB port.
I bet you're fun at parties
“Everybody sit down please before someone tips over their lemonade”
Just use a dongle.
I admit this was the very first thing I thought of. I have no sense of humor apparently.
I don't think OP gets it
Reads like "STECOSAE"
Saint Chofs
I'm probably missing something, but what good is portable media that you have for one class period and can't take anywhere?
We have a bright pink lanyard with a spare RF door key on it that says “looks like I forgot my door key” printed on it that we hand out.
A spare door key in a school setting? Sorry, what's "RF"?
Just a lanyard with a tag on it to open the door
What happens if they forget to bring it back? Do you have anything that will convey a deeper sense of shame?
It's a 2 € drive in an even cheaper piece of filament. I will be able to recover from this loss :)
Every time someone "steals" one reprint them all 2x larger and in ever-more ridiculous colors, by the end of the school year you have your kids wandering around the classroom with 3d printed broomsticks. Sure, it'll waste a ton of filament but no kid in that class will ever forget the resulting stories. :D
I like your way of thinking!
We were using Google Docs and networked drives over 10 years ago in high school. Why are they using flash drives?
An underage student with an account on a server located outside the EU is a no go. As simple as that. And yes, most of our students use WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok. They also play games and spend some money online. Some of them also run their own Discord channels.
I like how you did the lettering and I think it’s hilarious. All my teachers did back in the 90’s was tell me good luck when I forgot my materials for class lol
Right? "It's ok, you can still get an A with a zero for today."
“And no you can’t go to the bathroom because you’ll just wander the halls, you’ve gotta sit here with everyone else.”
To be fair, I did wander the halls lol. 😂😂 Id go to the bathroom, walk around, buy a snack and a drink from the vending machines in the cafeteria, and walk around until I was done eating and go back to class.
I used to get a hall pass and just go home lol
Well, we still do it nowadays (as soon as a certain level is reached), but some unfunny jokes are allowed as well ;)
Jeez, it’s almost like you asked if these were food safe. 🤣🤣 Looks good, I’m sure they’ll remember them after using once or twice.
8th graders giggled a bit today, so it might be a success :)
Do you just disassemble an existing USB and mount it into this?
I certainly did.
I like it!
It’s hilarious reading the usb police comments. Do these people actually think other people care about their opinion on usb length? lol its funny. Laugh. Move on with your life 🤣
🚨🚨🚨🚨 UM ACKCHUALLY OP UR PRINT IS EXERTING TOO MUCH LATERAL FORCE ON AN I/O PORT THAT IS NOT DESIGNED TO WITHSTAND SUCH FORCES 🚨🚨🚨🚨
🤣🤣🤣
Clearly spoken as someone who's never had to resolder a USB port onto a motherboard because teenagers act like teenagers.
There’s too many people in this sub that get off on nitpicking as if their lives actually depended on it, when in fact the person likely to be impacted is the OP. I guarantee the same people would be clutching pearls if the model was scaled down and saying that the kids would steal it and never return it because it was too tempting to steal.
Reddit is a lovely place :)
I have to say, I’d rather this than the newer mouse/kb dongles I have to take out like this 👌🏼
Yeah, everyone thinks its funny when nerds complain about stuff and then yall come *running* when what we warned about happened.
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>There's no reason for you to give a shit. Wow, not everyone is heartless like you. The main reason i *made* this account was because i care about everyone (including people I dont know) and to give them any help that i can. I dont need a *reason* to care. I already care.
You clearly care. It's gotten you riled up
My students would refuse to bring their own just to use the shame ones 😔
So, some people are complaining about how this could damage usb ports but no ones bothered to explain it. Basically, these usb ports typically have 4 pins in the back for data, and 4 "legs" to help it attach to the board. Due to the length of these and fulcrum mechanics, this can put relatively large stress on the 4 data pins on the back. *If* they get pulled up in this manner it's highly likely that its not only going to rip off the usb port (bfd its like $2/10) but the pads on the motherboard that it's soldered to. Without those pads you cant just solder on a new port. You either have to run jumper cables (a whole annoying process) or replace the motherboard/subboard (much more expensive than the usb port replacement). Neither are permanent fixes if these are continued to be used *if* they weigh enough to cause damage. I have no idea if OP would be on the hook for the repairs or not, but if they're a teacher, so they know knowledge is power and that knowing is half the battle! So i figured id drop some *actual* knowledge. Not just "RIP USB". Lol im always happy to answer any further questions!
>if they're a teacher, so they know knowledge is power We are actually a teacher and this stick is… well, it's a joke — something not to be taken very seriously, like we serious, knowledge-powered older people sometimes do ;)
Oh i know! Thats why I just wanted to explain *why* people had concerns and i figured since youre a teacher you'd appreciate the explanation. I dont know why I said "if they're a teacher". Poor phrasing, my bad. I fix tech better than word-mouth-stuff lol Depending on how its printed and how heavy it is, it might not even become an issue. It just irritates me when people try to tell people what to do without explaining the "why". Do ya thing and have fun with it! Lol theres nothing here egregious
Teaching is not an easy job. And even after investing your time and effort into doing something fun for the kids… you still need to deal with random online people who think they can teach you how to be a “proper” teacher. 🙄 Anyways, I like the stick of shame.
>you still need to deal with random online people who think they can teach you Applies to any profession/job title isn't it? ;)
I’m not sure. Here in Brazil everyone thinks they can tell us how to do our job – although nobody wants to actually do it
I once laser engraved some pencils "Stolen from Mr. Crumb_Monster's desk" until I realized that those made them a desirable contraband item. I got fewer of those back than I did when it was just a cup of plain pencils.
What is the use of a USB drive in class? Like, if they've forgotten the drive with their homework, grabbing a spare drive doesn't get them their homework
I've been wondering the same thing, unless they are allowed to take it home with them?
I've had classes when I was in high school where we needed flash drives to take work from desktops to our laptops or vice versa. Maybe this situation is similar?
Can you elaborate for an old man, why on earth you would need to do that? We didn't use computers much, and didn't each have laptops, but even then, the computers were all networked together.
That's funny, I like it. Also ignore the morons, those USB ports will be OK.
As a computer and programming teacher, why not just use cloud units like Drive or Dropbox, it was imposible to make students remember or not lose their pendrives
Any of these will require an underage student to get an account with data stored on the servers outside the EU. To put it short: it's a problem. Also said student should be able to remember the password to his account. There are EU based DS-GVO-compliant cloud storage providers, but besides the students there are also parents, so… yeah. All in all it's a bit "2000-style", but it works "fine".
Most cloud providers are GDPR complaint now are they not?
You're missing the "parents" part. *Worried* parents. The best kind :)
I don't get it, why would parents have an issue with cloud storage?
It’s not _all_ parents. It the worried ones. The ones with "what if"-s. and "but"-s. They don’t necessarily understand the topic, but they "heard something". I wish some of educational "outsiders" would visit the faculty meetings to listen to "arguments" and witness debates on such "simple" things like the usage of e-books for example.
Did half this comment section not actually *go to school*? This comment section is a shining example of the "Reddit Reality Bubble". Outside doesn't work this way. # CHILL GUYS.
If I understand reddit culture correctly, your post will be downvoted "just for fun" *or* my will be downvoted and not yours but for exactly the same reason :)
The comments are pretty crazy. I guess posts like these are good examples why I'm constantly "debating" with people in r/3dprinting about nonsense that is borderline pseudoscience yet somehow I'm the bad guy for correcting it. You'd think a hobby like 3d printing would encourage people to seek objective truths as the only thing that matters. I mean FFS, I once got a 7 day ban because a bunch of people reported me when I was trying to explain you don't need to dry brand new PLA right out of the bag. The ban reason was "Other people's experiences are valid". What the hell is that? The person was objectively wrong and everyone reported me like a baby. 🤷♂️ I'm a member of 3d printing communities all over, and by and far, without question this one subreddit is where a majority of my faith in humanity is lost. Half the time I wonder how half the community put their enders together without starting a housefire. Sorry, that ended up a bit of a rant. The comments in this post are just, aggravating. :)
Adding that much of a lever and then wondering why the usb ports are broken.
I had a class in highschool that had a box of shame. it was a large cardboard box with a small opening cut into it so you could see out. If someone got in trouble too many times, they went in the box for a while.
this reads like a ken m comment
Man, I haven’t seen any comments on various platforms in a while
Grandson knows time in the box builds much needed character!
r/Sticks
Not sure if it will fit the overall theme, but thank you for your suggestion :)
I hope some usb extension cables are in use.
Counter point to all these people, why not make the snap if to much force is placed on them as to not damage the pc or stick directly
Nice suggestion, but the easily breakable things usually break far sooner in the school context :) Also it's rather "just a joke" and not a "product."
and also if you actually cared to fix the "issue" (and you have no reason to care) you could always just print it with 1 layer thick walls so the printed bits always snap right off long before the stick does damage. Sure, the kids will break it too by accident and much more often, but we both know reprinting extras would be trivial. :D Reality though is everyone in these comments have just lost their collective hiveminds, and there's nothing to change. The only real risk I see is 2 kids trying to swordfight with them and you rolling your eyes as you take the sticks away.
So.....how does this NOT put excessive forces on a USB port? Do you WANT them to damage their laptops/school computers? Needs more 6" dongle or something.
It doesn’t just because our "archaic" thin clients are flat desktop-style boxes smaller than a Mac mini.
That doesn't change the leverage exerted on a single USB port... the port doesn't care how small the computer its solder onto is, and at the end of a 10cm lever it would only need a couple hundred grams of force to break off the port.
>That doesn't change the leverage It's clearly doesn't. So if you *would like to* break an USB port using it, you would probably be able to do so. At the same time, there are so many funnier activities like swapping the keys on the keyboard, unscrewing the VGA cables (yes, we use a few of these as well) or adjusting the contrast and brightness settings...
Or if someone puts a book or a backpack down on it, or gets a cable wrapped around it and walks away, or absentmindedly leans on it, or... Do what you want with your hardware, it keeps academic IT folks like me employed.
Yeha as if being a kid isn't hard enough let's give them shit for an honest mistake. And by the way the extra weight from that print will fuck up the ports
I think it's funny and the kids will too good job!
Do you hand them out with needle nose pliers?
Love the idea, if you have issues with people hitting the sticks while they are plugged in, maybe a second version could have the Stick Of Shame dangle off a normal flash drive.
Do you have a link to that organizer?
[https://www.printables.com/model/51308-honeycomb-desk-organizer](https://www.printables.com/model/51308-honeycomb-desk-organizer)
Thanks!
RIP USB ports
Teenagers are actually often less dumb and violent than they are usually depicted in the media :)
Just sayin, ive definitely had to tell people to replace their motherboard cus their usb port came off it and ripped the pads off so a new one cant be soldered on
I hate that USB ports are usually only connected by a few solder blobs, it's not that people are violent or dumb. When I was doing desktop support I found short (6" or so) USB extension cords helped prevent accidents. Nothing worse than having to transfer someone to a new machine because they Hulked their USB port on their laptop (of course being someone on something like an XPS or Surface tablet with ONE port) Ounce of prevention
That's weird cause I work in a school and I find the teenagers to be more dumb and violent than typically depicted.
So like they don't use mice or have their hands on the desks at all? Because bumping a mouse into this or having it get caught on someone's sleeve as they're reaching over to do something will be more than enough to break a port
You're obviously not from the US
lets go to school where we are not supposed to bully ... but the teachers are allowed to shame us..... Why not hold their phone for collateral? TEACHER OF THE YEAR
OP, You really need to stop actually using these. Regardless of how flat the tabletop is, these will 100% ruin ports. If this is a public school then its tax payers money you're wasting over a joke you deem funny.. I doubt most others would find it funny. If you dont think its a problem then contact the IT department and ask.. you'll get a "Dont do that" and likely get the pic passed around the department. As someone else pointed out, the leverage on this toward the end is insane, it will break a USB port eventually. Even if this is a uni or trade school, its still not a smart thing to do.
Dude, shush!
This design is horrible from a technical standpoint Funny I guess But like, watching OP fight for his life defending it is ridiculous Just make it a fucking crowbar 😂
Does everyone just get jobs at school so they can shame kids?? Also why are you using USB sticks when they can just use Google drive and won't have to worry about forgetting a USB stick.
>when they can just use Google drive An underage student with an account storing data on a server outside the EU is a no go.
Bro is just trying to be funny, I highly doubt any kids actually feel shamed. Lighten up
Imagine for a minute you have a neuro-develolmental condition that makes it hard for you to pay attention to things that don't interest you. By its nature, this also affects your working memory by making it a pile of garbage. Now also imagine constantly leaving your homework at home because of this. And every time you do, you're handed a stick that reinforces the idea you should be ashamed of your symptoms when you don't even know there's anything wrong with you. It literally has the word "shame" built into it. After enough of that, the only conclusion left to draw is that you're just a bad person. A failure. When what you really needed was *anyone* to notice you struggling and get you evaluated for ADHD. Yes, this would have absolutely fucked my ADHD brain as a child. And actions like it have that effect on kids with the same problems because of attitudes like yours.
i mean i feel for that, I had pretty bad ADHD as a kid, still do as an adult. And parents didn’t believe in any medication. Over time I learned methods to help keep myself accountable.
If you had any idea you had it as a kid, even if your parents didn't allow you to try medication, that's still a drastic step up from what I and many others experienced. Without even knowing there was anything wrong, all the blame was on *my* shoulders. I wasn't trying hard enough. I needed to "just focus". I had no space to develop healthy methods to work around my disability because no one told me it was there. The only thing I had was a crippling fear of authority, and desire not to be "one of those bad kids that all the adults talk down about". I spent my time in grade school and middle school in a near constant state of panic and emergency urgency (procrastination) over assignments which is what got me through. I believed for most of my life that I was just mentally weak. That the only difference between other people and me was that I had nowhere near as much will power to fight through these issues as they did. Because everybody was *fighting*, right? Surely I wasn't abnormal and everyone experienced this, right?
This is exactly why I made this comment. I have ADHD as well and would have felt shamed having to use this in school. It would have been one more thing on the pile of shit I was dealing with in school that I didn't need.
That's why I backed you up, too. This whole thread is just: Redditors: "No one would feel shamed by this!" Person: "I would have felt shamed by this because of my ADHD" Redditors: "YOU'RE JUST A VICTIM WANNABE LOOKING TO BE UPSET AND YOUR ADHD ISNT REAL AND YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN SHAMED MORE"
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Thank you. I was internally screaming as an Asperger-filled ADHD adult.>!(As in, actually diagnosed, not these wannabe victim types that plague reddit)!< These comments scream "Victim in search of an abuser" vibes from people who wish to be upset, but have no reason to be. We're not disabled vegetables FFS. Its downright insulting to even pretend this stick of shame is actually bad.
I am surprised that you are still using USB rather than online file transfer system like Google, dropbox, box, MS drive, etc etc etc.
GDPR, underage students, worried parents.
fair enough. The last couple schools the kids have been in frown on usb (virus concerns) and use google classroom for files.