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Why is there a mother-daughter thing in the first place?

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[–] Mango@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Noooo, boats cars and computers are girls and therefore have girl parts.

[–] parpol@programming.dev 86 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Help me stepbrotherboard, my circuits are stuck under the chassi."

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I can see your debug port.

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 20 points 2 days ago

Ouch, that's my exhaust vent

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 28 points 2 days ago

The sonboard:

And here we see the family together:

[–] GetOffMyLan@programming.dev 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

The observant will have noticed one of these early uses of mother-board are in conjunction with baby-board, and not today's common daughterboard. A mother-baby relationship seems more appropriate in this context than mother-daughter.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10386/why-motherboard-is-used-to-refer-to-main-board-of-computer

So daughter boards were earlier referred to as baby boards. Mother to baby seems a more obvious link than farther.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If 1 motherboard can make 1 babyboard in 9 months, can 3 motherboards make 1 babyboard in 3 months?

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

No. When you see 2 or 3 motherboards together, the are probably doing rasbian stuff.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Neat.

Wonder why the terminology changed. Maybe baby-board/childboard didn't roll off the typewriter as well?

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago

Wait until you run into stepmother boards.

There's two types. The first are the evil stepmother boards that make you do all the hard work.

The other is the good stepmother board that gives you handjobs or takes your virginity

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

wait till you hear about white and black boards.

[–] czardestructo@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Or master and slave boards...

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's also bread- and waterboards

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They are both very similar. Breadboarding is making a circuit on a breadboard while waterboarding is making a circuit on someone's nipples whit a car battery while you're pouring water over their face.

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Does the nipple thing cost extra?

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago

Only if you enjoy it

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, the motherboard has female connectors. Idk about the rest tbh.

[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does it? All the connectors I'm thinking of on the motherboard have protruding pins, which seem a lot more phallic to me. Are they really considered the 'female' connectors?

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

You're right, there can be some, like the pins for power button and LEDs. But CPU, RAM, Power, SATA, the external ones on the backpane etc are all female.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 9 points 3 days ago