Sometimes you’re lucky enough to even have cables fail in this way. I have a couple of cables that don’t work for data any more but do for charging, and I use t

Sometimes you’re lucky enough to even have cables fail in this way. I have a couple of cables that don’t work for data any more but do for charging, and I use this deliberately to power my Sony α6100 as a webcam—give it a USB cable with data, and it switches into a different mode (e.g. file transfer). (Why do USB cables last so poorly? I’ve never had an A to Micro-B cable last even a quarter of the spec’s minimum rated lifetime (10,000 insertion/removal cycles) before the Micro-B connector is uselessly unreliable, whether cheap or expensive—quite apart from the just-as-frequent failures at the clip/cable junction, like the ones I’m talking of here.)