myrmepropagandistHODL... but it's my box of cables that date back to 1989
Any moment now one of you will need that USB B to USB A and THAT will be my moment to shine.
WTL@futurebird My rule is keep one of each cable type I have, for the same reason.
Jack the Frosted Count@futurebird I have the RCA cable that will definitely be vital for some project someday.
Tim Panton@futurebird Or it will achieve sentience and start chatting with that drawer of old phones....
Paul Chambers🚧@futurebird I have a desktop that I still use occasionally that uses a USB Mouse to PS/2 adapter for the keyboard and mouse. Grant it, I only use it for one program that isn't available for modern OS's. FYI, I never connect it to the internet.
That's such a pretty shade of green...
@futurebird I got that image from an online store.
Ken Milmore@paul @futurebird You need to get a purple keyboard one to complete the set! 😉
@kbm0 It's one of those large Packard Bell keyboards with the curved top that has all the buttons on top that does many different things from media and sound to the "web" "email" etc buttons. @futurebird
Linebyline@paul @futurebird Oh, this makes me so mad. I bought a bunch of similar adapters (actually the opposite, to connect a PS/2 mouse/keyboard to a PC's USB port, but the same soothing shade of aqua) and they just…didn't work. It turns out that they were strictly wire adapters, with no electronics to translate the protocol. So they only work with devices that are aware of the USB protocol, despite having only a PS/2 connector.
Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑@futurebird I found two PS/2 to USB A 1.0 adapters in a box just a few weeks ago.
Remember kids, I am old enough to remember when USB made everything better. Unironically.
llewelly@futurebird huh, I have a dreamcast in need of a an audio visual cable (whose specifics I don't know) that will connect to a display I actually have access to, or some kind of adaptor thereof, if you think you can find such a cable faster than the technology packrats I actually live with, who have so far taken over a month to find an appropriate cable, which they are sure they own.
@futurebird It's frankly embarrassing how long it took me to realize (and by "realize" I mean "notice when reading a Wikipedia article I'd already read before") that USB as a protocol (before USB-C) was designed so that there was a clear side A and side B, and that's why printer cables are Like That™ and also why mini and micro are considered variants of B. And why you never see A to A cables (other than extension cords). Easy to miss when most USB devices had the B side hard-wired in, I guess.
Mure, die@futurebird
Once I saved a presentation by digging out one of my cables to connect a laptop to an old beamer. I'm not afraid to call it one of the proudest moments of my life.
As a consequence I will keep hodling cables till the heat death of the universe.
@futurebird I have this week found occasion to deploy a SCART cable. It turned out that the family stash of hoarded SCART cables came to about a dozen, all untouched for two decades at a guess. We selected the longest of them.
Jessie Kirk • 🏳️⚧️ 🇬🇱 🇵🇸 🇺🇦@futurebird Ah yes I need to connect my Commodore 64 to a monitor with an mini HDMI input, can you daisy chain some adapter monstrosity for me please? 😁
Earsmeardius@futurebird SCSI cables don't grow on trees anymore.