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I would put a suitable USB plug on it rather than wiring to the GPIO pins as I am certain in a rush I would plug it in wrongly damaging the Pi!

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Thats the reason why diode is used for protecting the non-PoE switch's Port when raspi is accidentally powered through micro-usb port(or usb-c for pi-4)

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