I'm in this article and feel personally attacked!
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Well I start and stop hobbies on a whim, needing a random cable from my (super well organized) cable box does come in handy.
Just wish I could finish a project now and then :D
I felt so called out by this that I just threw away a box of cables. Thank you for giving me the push I needed to wait hold on I think I still need those USB-A cables for that old printer I've got in storage so I should dig those out of the trash real quick
If eBay didn't suck so bad, I'd say just use that as your "box"
Heck, maybe what we really need is an online exchange. Mail in a cable, get a cable of your choice in return. So when you need some rare cable you've got it on demand... Just 5 days and $6 in shipping. Aww fuck it.
When I buy anything electrical in the UK, they often give you a UK plug, a European Plug and an American plug. Over time, or if you use a lot of electric things at work, you can end up with a huge pile of plugs that don't work in your own country.
If they do similar elsewhere, we could definitely swap.
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I feel personally attacked.
"Well, of course I know him. He's me."
I have three largish ones, started in 88. One is just power cables. That's the one my psichyatrist worries about.
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I packed mine and moved it to a new house today; along with the voice module to the Odyssey game system i got for my 11th birthday.
Hahaha…asshole. I’m going through it tomorrow, promise.
Ive got several drawers of them. I might need those SATA cables someday. And mini USB cables. And cell phone charger and data cable for a Motorolla Razr.
What a tiny little stash. I have boxes and not by the hair of my old serial modem cable will I give any of it up.
I have a 5 gallon “bucket of USB.”
It’s only 3/4 full!
That reminds me. I've had a box of cables since '22 and every time I go through it I think, "damn, I really need to organize this and get rid of some shit". And then I shove it into my closet out of sight and out of mind until the next time I need something from within it.
Just use toilet paper rolls to keep them neat and seperated. You could even label each roll if you wanted to go all out.
It's nothing huge, but it's gonna make finding them so much easier.
In Australian accent:
"That's not a box... that's a box"
Gestures to my stacks of old computer equipment
Heh. Went through just that box of mixed cables this year. Got rid of all the ancient cable duplicates (like 2.5 floppy ribbon cable) and kept one of each, more useful ones I kept duplicates of like SATA cables. The rest were gotten rid of.
My old man has been hoarding cables since he moved to Canada in 1987. He recently got the chance to use an old SCSI cable. He looked like he was 24 again.
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I thought this was supposed to be satire not a true story.