Travis GeiselbrechtOct 9, 2023
Mike Sheward

“My god. The weapon is armed, the countdown has begun, and the only known copy of the override code is stored on this old Nokia 5510 with an empty battery. We’re doomed.”

“Everybody chill the fuck out. I got this. Just gotta crack open the old cable drawer. Here you go.”

“You have a Nokia 5510 charger, but why?! That phone hasn’t been sold in over 20 years!”

“Let’s just say, I always knew this day would come.”

“Wow. Your decision to never throw away cables just saved humanity honey…honey…time to wake up honey…”

Oct 4, 2023 at 5:18amWeb
Show threadCBOct 4, 2023
@SecureOwl As someone that just moved, I can feel this with my soul. “Just in case”
Show threadDark Sheep Arts Has MovedOct 4, 2023
@SecureOwl I think my wife has this dream every night...
Show threadhugovangalen 🤖 🕹️ 😼Oct 4, 2023
@SecureOwl I'm reading this while staring at a data cable for a Siemens S35 phone lying on my desk (the cable, not the phone).
Show threadBen AvelingOct 4, 2023
@SecureOwl “I know it’s here somewhere”
Show threadThe Real StephenOct 4, 2023
@SecureOwl and more importantly after saving the world you can sit down and have a nice game of snake
Show threadi. celeste aurora    [witchzard]Oct 5, 2023
@stephen @SecureOwl This!
Show threadBen GriffithsOct 8, 2023
@stephen @SecureOwl It's a 5510 so you can also listen to music!
Show threadNonya Bidniss 🥥🌴Oct 4, 2023
@SecureOwl 😂
Show threadStuart Celarier ❌👑Oct 5, 2023
@SecureOwl Cable drawer. Hah, such amateurs. At least two liquor store boxes of cables, because you never know. Iomega Zip Drive? I've got you covered right here.
Show threadAlisonW ♿🏳️‍🌈♾️Oct 5, 2023
@SecureOwl
I have crates of old chargers and wallwarts. I daren't dispose of them because one day...
Show threadNour 🏳️‍⚧️🍉Oct 5, 2023
@SecureOwl Mastodon bot idea: Every day it writes a post similar to this but every time it's a different old phone or a different old connector needed, and people would boost the post around until they find someone who had that connector who then replies with an image of it.
Maybe someone can even keep a score 😁
Show threadLance, Enjoying Copious PollenOct 5, 2023

@SecureOwl I kept an old 5.25" floppy drive for years, just in case such a moment came to fruition and somebody desperately needed to get files off an old disk.

I was the hero nobody needed.

Show threadReallyCanadianFlyDec 14, 2023
@analogfusion @SecureOwl this whole thread is giving me anxiety about finally turfing my floppy drives last year. 😂
Show threadMarjolein TamisOct 5, 2023
@SecureOwl I feel personally attacked by this post (because I have such a charger and I know exactly where it is) 😅
Show threadbgt loverOct 5, 2023
@SecureOwl that's absolutely hilarious, you made my day!
Show threadbss, super geniusOct 5, 2023
@SecureOwl “noooo, I was just about to tell them that the same drawer also has a real hardware 56k modem they could use for the DEC Alphastation they have in a corner!”
Show threadRealGene ☣️Oct 8, 2023
@bss @SecureOwl
I've got a genuine Hayes 9600 V.32bis waiting for its moment…
Show threadArun Mani JOct 5, 2023
@SecureOwl and here I'm, I don't even through the boxes away, like what if, I need to read up the manual of a 10 year old phone :D
Show threadSteptoe EdwallOct 5, 2023
@SecureOwl I’m dying!! My wife gets so annoyed with me about the cables I have stashed!!!
Show threadJohan HalseOct 5, 2023
@SecureOwl
Show threadSteven LiptonOct 5, 2023
@SecureOwl @JoshHrach I feel seen. Of course, that has happened a few times at work. We do have a lot of legacy equipment hanging around. Parallel printer cable, anyone?
Show threadfirebreathingduckOct 6, 2023
@SecureOwl I feel called out. 🤣
Show threadQuinn Blueheart 🔞✍️🔥Oct 6, 2023
@SecureOwl Could happen, right? Best play it safe!
Show threadRussell GarnerOct 6, 2023
@CuriousScutter
Show threadJack GarfinkelOct 6, 2023
@rgarner I love that this is my brand
Show threadRussell GarnerOct 6, 2023
@CuriousScutter I love that you love that
Show threadTor LillqvistOct 6, 2023
@SecureOwl I am just about to throw away all my VGA and DVI cables and adapters. Am I crazy? What if VGA cables are worth their weight in gold in a few years, when important systems that still use VGA or DVI need new cables?
Show threadDoomsdaysCWOct 6, 2023
@SecureOwl Heh. I just pawed through my cable collection the other day because a friend forgot his. Lol!
Show threadKent BrewsterOct 7, 2023
@SecureOwl it me
Show threadClaudius LinkOct 8, 2023
@SecureOwl
😂
But would you find it in time between the 617395543 (micro) USB cables 😉?
Show threadmx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)Oct 8, 2023
@SecureOwl power cable? we have the data cable for that device
Show threadPeteOct 8, 2023

@SecureOwl

Same but in my case it's multiple boxes up in the loft. Just got to get past all these cluster flies and the arachnid ecosystem that they support.

Show threadPēteris KrišjānisOct 8, 2023
@SecureOwl they should sell it again
Show threadwolffzoneOct 8, 2023
@SecureOwl That's precisely why I've got this huge box of ancient cables and electronics in the attic 😁
Show threadLeigh GarlandOct 8, 2023

@SecureOwl I've got half a dozen 5-pin midi cables here, but can't work that into a world-saving scenario...

[Digs further]

This IE1394 FireWire cable however...

Ooh, and a scsi-to-analogue video cable. That'll come in handy...

Hmmm that cable to connect a landline handset to it's base... Why do I have 4 of these?

Now I'm crying

Show threadSteve Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺Oct 8, 2023
@SecureOwl More likely the world will blow up while I'm spending hours searching through boxes of obsolete kit trying to find the cable I definitely know I have...
Show threadpcbeardOct 8, 2023
@SecureOwl I found my old Sega Dreamcast in a box in the garage, and thankfully its very obscure AV cables were nearby too. Otherwise it would have been a piece of junk. Still boots, and saved games in the controller’s memory card still work too!
Show threadBłażej KowalczykOct 8, 2023
@SecureOwl It will be easy with Nokia and its quite standard 2.5mm plug.
If it happens to be old SonyEriksson with this crazy flat 'thing' (cannot say plug, it wasn't plugged into phone, more like attached to it) it would be different story...
Even if you get the cable, phone contacts probably get tarnished, so you need few extra minutes to scrap it with needle.
BTW, I have new devices (not phones) still using same 2.5mm plug as old Nokias.
Yes, I also have at leats one SonyEriksson cable, that has absolutly no imaginable use, somwhere in my drawer. Why are you asking?
Show threadChristian von Schack 🇳🇴Oct 8, 2023
@SecureOwl I feel attacked
Show threadAmin Hollon 🏳Oct 9, 2023
@SecureOwl
I started giving away some of my cable collection, but only where redundant. Mostly giving away my myriad USB Micro-B cords. XD
Show threadAksOct 9, 2023
@SecureOwl calling me out like that smh
Show threadAir AdamOct 9, 2023
@SecureOwl For real though, I have a set of packing cubes containing all kinds of cables, separated by approximate purpose (audio, video, USB, power, etc) - has already bailed me out several times and tamed the tangle in the cable box!
Show threadMike SpoonerOct 9, 2023
@SecureOwl I am *soooo* here for this.
Show threadMike SpoonerOct 9, 2023
@SecureOwl Should have been the plot of The Cable Guy.
Show threadMohit SindhwaniOct 9, 2023
@SecureOwl sounds like the "man's drawer" sketch by Michael McIntyre 😁
Show threadCrisOct 9, 2023
@SecureOwl I knew it! I’m not the only crazy person who can find a Nokia charger in his drawer with closed eyes!
Show threadHasALizardOct 10, 2023
@SecureOwl I may have to print this out and tape it to the door of The Closet of Obsolete Tech.
Show threadbluestarultorOct 20, 2023

@SecureOwl Y'all laugh, but I'm reminded of a guy who cleaned out his cable drawer thinking he'd never need any of it again and like 2 weeks later found an otherwise useful retro device without its cable.

Which is to say, *grabs cable drawer protectively and hisses*

Show threadUltra Verified 🇺🇦 🇬🇱Dec 14, 2023

@SecureOwl

Yeah. But McGiver would have been able to piece a charger together from some Christmas tinsel, Chanukah geld and a dreidel.

Show threadUairDec 14, 2023

@SecureOwl

You old enough to remember Mil Millington?

Show threadAlien software, human hardwareDec 14, 2023
@SecureOwl i kind of feel like this is mean?
Not sure why though....
Show threadNudeln Al Dente 🐘Dec 14, 2023
@SecureOwl @narpoleptic
Show threadLindsey 🐲Dec 14, 2023
@SecureOwl
Every single time I need something from a stash I keep and it justifies all my other stashes, I add a cable to my cable filing cabinet
Show threadMike FraserDec 14, 2023
@SecureOwl Me in my tech junk closet: "Hold my beer" *rumages past 20 mb mfm hard drive and pcmcia cards.
Show threaddonutage (Bill Cole)Dec 16, 2023
@SecureOwl @jankhambrams Have you been reading my dream diary again?