So much depends upon the box of cables.

Recently rediscovered this as I did some reorganization. This is also an opportunity to reaffirm Chesterton’s Fence.

Dont get rid of a cord until you know what it goes with and you dont need the thing it goes with any longer. It takes up basically zero space if you twist tie it and place it in a special unknown cables box seperate from cables which you know or can easily visualy infer what they go with

I was about to throw away all my S-Video connectors this week.

Then all this TV-Spying debacle started getting exposed, and I looked at my old VHS and remembered why I kept the cable.

Wasn’t planning on letting anyone take away my big box of cables.

I keep a box of just old power bricks. Some are pretty normal like 12vdc@2a but some are weirder. What needs 19.5vac@5a? I don’t know but when it needs it I’ve got it.

There’s a good reason to keep old cables. These days with everything made in China, there’s a lot of garbage cables out there. The main problems being that they’re made out of aluminum or the wire gauge isn’t as claimed.

RIP my BBoC. My ex got it in the divorce.

Timely.

I just organized my big box o’ cables last weekend. Of course, then yesterday I had to unpack the entire box because I needed one from the bottom but it’s still progress

Edit: I found my old serial 33.6 modem in there.

My only problem is that it’s not just cables, but like 10 banker boxes of crap that I don’t want to throw away in case I ever need, but it takes up space in the apartment and the main reason is because i’m poor enough that I can’t afford to replace all of that shit, but that shit just needs to go.

If I didn’t have that clutter (in the boxes, outside of the boxes), I’d have a neater place, and that would make it more pleasant to live here.

My family call it the “spaghetti box”.