I threw away my weird cables when I moved two years ago. How fucked is future me?
The further into your future you go, the more likely you’re gonna get fucked by that bold maneuver. May glob have mercy on your soul
Thank you.
Last move, I collected all cables in a one HUGE box.
After the majority of the unpacking (like I’ll ever finish that) was completed, I sat down with the box and sorted out all the cables.
I kept a sane amount of each cable, at least one and trashed the rest.
I now have half a dozen labeled sterelite dollar store organizers with the cables in them.
add it to your bucket list…
I did this last time I was unemployed. Garage is super organized now
I store all mine in a closet door shoe keeper. Each pocket is 1 type. And I keep as many as will fit in that pocket except for a few special things I keep a ton of. PC power cables, Current USB, HDMI/DP
Same, except I kept all of each kind that have potential use, and set aside any that are technologically obsolete by over two decades so I could throw them out.
That box is still on the shelf as well …
I organized all my cables into like types and put them in gallon sized plastic bags to prevent all that intertangling, at least nominally. I still hardly go into that box though. It’s still a pain in the ass, just less of one.
LPT: intertangeling only happens when cables are looped. Just put them together linke you would crumble a piece of paper and put them in your bottles. No more intertangeling
Label and bind cables, throw them into a big plastic bin with lid, label the lid with contents. Repeat as necessary.
Once every few years, take them out and test them with appliance. If it’s a USB cable, put it into three categories:
- Dead
- Charges
- Charges + Data
Keep the dead ones. They are very strong cables you can use to tie things together.
- Need to hang a picture? Dead cable.
- Need to pool some plastic bags together? Dead cable
- Want to read a good comic book? Deadpool and Cable
Just when I was summoning the courage to throw mine out!
Don’t you dare
I feel like I’ve had a warning now from the future!
I had an ISA serial card sitting on a shelf next to my desk at work for 14 years. In the yearly clean up it was kept. 10 years after the last ISA machine had been in the office it was scrapped.
Not 2 days after the truck I had to order one exactly like it for a machine i did not know exsisted in a printing press i did not know at a customer… NEVER throw out anything!
I can hear the phaser on overload sound.
OMG! I was just about to throw away a box of “cables” I’ve been accruing since college. My wife has been complaining about these cables that never get used. I think I’m going to have to hold off now. Thanks for the warning!
Still got mine
I continue to carry a box (well, currently it’s in three shoeboxes, technically) of cables, some of which are roughly as old as I am
Hallelujah Jesus name
If you need to get rid of a pile of DC power supplies and they’re all similar, consider donating them to a stem youth club. I have a huge pike of 12v power supplies with the 5.5-2.1mm plug on them and they work great with breadboard power supplies.
Have none of you learned the law!!?? The act of throwing the cable away is what created the need for that cable. The cable gods MUST be appeased. (Also applies to adapters and random hardware.)
I have several boxes of these that I’ll never let go, but I have to admit, I ditched the SCSI cables at one point and have no regrets.
USB ate SCSI in a similar way to HDMI eating DVI so that one makes total sense.
Not throwing out DVI or even VGA cables. I run in to/test older gear way too often to let them go.
Buying things from thrift stores requires tools to make them work with your stuff.
Until a few years ago my workplace still had dozens of BNC networking cards, ISDN routers (bought on the cheap a few months before ADSL took off), and Windows 98 SE licenses.
My box of cables is with my ex. I hope to retrieve it one day.
My wife had her finger nail grinder break and it turned out to be the power adapter. It was an obscure 9.6V. guess who had it in my box.
She still complains about my box, but that night she complained a little less.
Voltage fluctuates. You could put 9v into it and it will be just fine. Hell you can probably put 12v into it and it will be fine. I have a switch at work that only exists to split one ethernet cable into two, and it’s rated for either 5 or 9v, but I’m using a 12v power supply on it and it’s just fine because it’s power conversion is rated for well over that (I think 16v max).
Disclaimer: don’t blindly put higher voltage into a device rated for a much lower voltage. 9v devices will usually tolerate 12v, but not all.
Ya, I run 18V for for my kid’s 12V power wheel and he can drift with it now.
Amen brothuh
Vindication of the box is better than cocaine.
What’s a finger nail grinder?
It’s like a grinder, but for fingernails
Do you wear eye protection when using it?
Bro… full hazmat!
You can save on that by just using pre-ground!
She uses this demenel looking grinding tool to remove gel nail. She likes doing pedicures herself.
No problem! You can purchase that hard to find cable at Radio Shack…Oh wait.
