• Ada
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    259 months ago

    I lost my box of support cables in a flood last year :(

      • no banana
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        159 months ago

        I actually finally got rid of one of those. Then I found a ThinkPad and a monitor and now I can’t be bothered getting a cable. My old one was free, god damn it!

      • Ada
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        79 months ago

        All I have now is some spare HDMI cables. It’s been tough

    • @smegOP
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      49 months ago

      My condolences 💔

    • @ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works
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      159 months ago

      Way too many times I have need a specific “obsolete” cable or connector not commonly sold anywhere only after having decided that I don’t need it and can throw it away. I’ve then been forced to buy a replacement at a ridiculous markup from some random eBay seller. Now I tend to keep those cables bagged up with the obsolete tech they belong to if I can. Now I have a tub of functional, well organized, emotional support obsolete tech. I refuse to give up my last floppy disk drive, cassette deck, VCR, or PlayStation.

    • @Mandarbmax@lemmy.world
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      59 months ago

      I actually use an Adb cable semi regularly for plugging old apple compatable mechanical keyboards into a converter for my PC.

      Nothing like playing doom 2016 on OG doom era hardware.

    • directive0
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      9 months ago

      Did you know SVIDEO and ADB share the same connector?

      Saved my ass trying to revive an old PowerMac the other day! (as if I dont have a box of ADB cables, I was just being lazy)

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech
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    169 months ago

    DB-25 parallel cable
    USB-B
    Twisted dual floppy cable
    USB-serial converter in an oversized connector handle and weird connecotor at the end of the cable with a Nokia logo
    Several intermittent MicroUSB cables
    That weird camera USB/AV cable
    Flat IDE cable
    Absurd length of telephone wire
    Telephone cord but coiled
    2.5mm headphones
    USB charging/interface clip for an early sports watch
    3.5mm jack to component video Two SCART cables (HDMI of the 1990s)
    Several USB cables with breadboard jumper wires instead of a connector
    Unregulated DC supply with 9V battery connector
    RS-232 to RJ45?!
    Strange antenna

    • @Kite@sh.itjust.works
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      29 months ago

      With RadioShack long gone, we are forced to improvise.

      That was my first thought after reading the OP lol. You have to hoard now that the Source of all things weird, old and/or obscure is gone.

    • @over_clox@lemmy.world
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      19 months ago

      Damn, you just reminded me that I should probably check the battery in my genuine RadioShack multimeter…

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech
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    79 months ago

    Remember the 10-in-1 USB charger monstrosity?

    Nokia 2mm barrel, 4mm barrel, Sony Ericsson’s line of exposed pins, Apple/Samsung tablet 30pin amalgamation, all three pre-Android Samsung mobile connectors, MiniUSB, MicroUSB and the PSP barrel jack. Then you have another connector for an HP PDA whose USB cable carries data but not power, and then a friend comes with their iPhone and needs charging.

    USB-C and EU’s decision to unite the ports should have come in 2010 at the latest.

    • @smegOP
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      39 months ago

      Mini and micro USB almost managed to unite everyone. Almost.

        • @smegOP
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          19 months ago

          I thought about linking this very comic but decided against it as the relevant bit was in the alt-text!

  • @solstice@lemmy.world
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    I used to have a graveyard of old computer parts and cables and finally got rid of most of it…But I still lug around hard drives laptops and phones from 10+ years ago whenever I move. I’m way too paranoid to trash them with all their unencrypted data sitting there, way too lazy to properly wipe them with DBAN or whatever, and way too scared to try and melt them with thermite, which is really the only way to be sure. I don’t really know what to do so I’ll probably just hold onto them for fifty years or so and let someone else deal with it one way or another.

  • @Rekonok@sh.itjust.works
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    49 months ago

    Going into my place my mom was happy to see a plant in the box

    I was sorry to admit that they are in a bigger box now

    • @smegOP
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      39 months ago

      As times get tougher the box gets larger. Fortunately the cables increase in number too.