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Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]This is my special box of USB cables. It's special because it has the magical ability to contain every single type of USB cable ever made, except for the one you're looking for right now.
I love this, so I@mike does this box also contain a USB cable tester?
@jpm no, that's in a box on the workbench!
s0 Is Not A Sysadmin
@jpm congratulations to the first reader of the image description!
Malcolm Herbert
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Elmar Billen@mike same here...
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Frank Heijkamp
Janin
MBEverding@mike since having kids I order micro USB and USB c in bulk since they always find creative ways to destroy cables
@mike It takes one to know one.
Liam Erven@mike I have a box just like that. Except it's actually my floor.
Niek van LeeuwenI also have such boxes, on top of the USB cable one another with almost every kind of computer memory known to man.
As with cables never the correct one for the obscure laptop I have been asked to install Linux on.
I find exactly that type of memory days after returning the laptop,
in another box containing assorted graphics cards :-).
martin lentink 🇪🇺 🇺🇦📎@mike I've got one just like that...
Shalien
Voracious ReaderWhat an excellent idea! There's one place you never have to look when searching for a cable. 🤯
RandomMusickMayhem (ON HOLD)@mike We all have this box. Sometimes boxes.
Metin Seven 🎨@mike And let's not forget the cables also have the magical ability to get entangled while you're not looking.
Twoowls Elt 🦉 🦉@mike this is the way.
Bootlegger@mike I've got a whole dresser like this, with drawers dedicated to a specific cable/peripheral type.
One of them is filled to the brim with PS1 controllers
One of them is filled to the brim with PS1 controllers
Dibs
Anne Hulbert@mike I'm almost embarrassed to say I coil and fasten with twist ties, then sort into bags... but still may not have the right cable.
Clement Cavadore@mike All of us have such a box @home, with that special feature allowing *not* to find the right one at the needed moment.
Tomas Ekeli@mike I have the same. My theory is that it's in fact exactly the same. These are not boxes, they are entrances to the cable-dimension where all cables, past, present and future exist (there is no time in there). We can reach into it, and we can feel around, but we cannot look through it to the other portals. Only cables can travel through it.
Jon Gibbins@mike I hypothesise that over 50% of households have a box like this, which seems like such a waste. I’ve long had an idea to set up some kind of localised cable giveaway / amnesty, and do what we can to promote (re)use over recycling.
EQIn the days of LAN-parties I had a sportsbag full of random cables, internal and external that always followed along. At every single congregation of more than one computer-nerd there are someone having problems with a computer and often I got rid of a cable or five each time.
@eq Always good to give things a home. 👍
And yet, I wonder how many cables get thrown out or recycled without ever having been used. 🙁
Stoneface Vimes@mike yes. We have one of those.
Fer24 🇲🇽
Klimperei - Petchanatz@mike i have the same + the ability to tie knots of incredible complexity on their own
Davide Pedron
Michael Guntsche@pedrondev @mike
I have a drawer like this too. My wife keeps complaining about it, but every 5 to 10 years I manage to untangle a cable out of this mess, on a sunday evening show it to her and say: Hah you see, that is why I am keeping them! - to which she normally replies with this "special" look on her face and a very brief but powerful "Aha, well done ....".
I have a drawer like this too. My wife keeps complaining about it, but every 5 to 10 years I manage to untangle a cable out of this mess, on a sunday evening show it to her and say: Hah you see, that is why I am keeping them! - to which she normally replies with this "special" look on her face and a very brief but powerful "Aha, well done ....".
Chao-c'
Lord Tom Klopf of CZ 
Martin Seeger@mike I sorted my special box and put all cables of the same type into a transparent bag and labeled them.
This makes it much faster to say: I don't have the cable I need 😄
Knud JahnkeI'm sure I have more USB cable types than there are USB plug standards. _Still_ always missing the one I need.
bubbajet@mike @lisamelton Oh! I’ve got the cable you’re missing at the moment. It’s right here in *my* cable drawer(s).
<minutes go by, tension increases>
…wait. Hold on. Looks like I’ve got every one but *that* one. Huh.
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Maki 🔻 🌹
Greg Lucas@mike I recently took multiple such boxes to electronics recycling. I decided at this point if I’m missing a cable I’d rather buy one than dig through boxes of ancient-possibly-important-but-probably-not junk.
Мя ��@mike have you tried flipping it, then opening it from the other side, trying to search cable you need, and then flipping the box again? This ritual is required for anything related to USB
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Simon Greenwood@mike Hang on - that's my box.
Sindarina, Edge Case Detective
Basement Chippy@mike like a cursed Bag of Holding.
Roknrol like the slur@mike And for some reason three Zune cables.
Mike Loukides@mike Nobody who uses computers can consider themselves complete without a box like this.
DoomsdaysCWDon't Throw Out Old USB Cables - Here's What To Do With Them Instead
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱@mike
We 'all' have a box like that!
Also, I cheat - I have a little bag in my jacket pocket, containing almost all required adapters. USB-A to USB-C, USB-C to USB-A, USB-C to micro-USB, etc etc. "One cable to drive them all..." 😀
We 'all' have a box like that!
Also, I cheat - I have a little bag in my jacket pocket, containing almost all required adapters. USB-A to USB-C, USB-C to USB-A, USB-C to micro-USB, etc etc. "One cable to drive them all..." 😀
Manegiste Flou ⏚ (he/him)@mike so it's just a normal cables box, nothing magical 😇