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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 15 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

I dig into my (organized) box of cables 2-3x a year. I still have functional older equipment that still sees occasional use.

Pro tip: go through the box and get rid of the duplicates of older items. No need to have 3 IDE ribbon cables, 4 SATA to 4-pin power adapters, or two parallel port cables.

[–] the_artic_one@piefed.social 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

+1 I only keep multiples of commonly used cables and I use ziplock bags to keep cables of the same type together in my cable box so it's easy to tell if I've accumulated too many.

[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 5 points 14 hours ago

Nice. This guys hoards expert level.

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I did this, and then my then-gf desperately searched for a cable one day...

[–] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 1 points 8 hours ago

They wrote duplicates.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

my box used to be organized. now it's all just a jumbled mess and i'm scared to open it