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Having to manage cables is a very 80s thing that we still have to do in 2025.

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨MissJinx@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

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  • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I hate devices that I can’t plug in and leave plugged in. Nothing but useless trash that I know will ultimately fail and need to be replaced, instead of easily repairing with a new pile of copper strands.

    Cables or bust. I don’t even use wifi as my main Internet. Much prefer wired Ethernet for stability and extra security.

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    • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’d like to imagine that you’ve found an ethernet cable that mimics the long coiled phone cords of the '80s and '90s so that you can walk around the house with your desktop PC chatting with your girlfriends all evening after school.

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      • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I wish lol, I loved hanging the receiver from the cable to untangle this mess

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      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I don’t know, man, walking around with a whole desktop PC, with monitors, keyboard and mouse? that does not seem to be easy. but sure it adds to the fun factor of imagining it with the curly cable!

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    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Wires are life.

      Learn to manage (route, store, wind, respect bend radius, etc) cables and reliability will be your reward.

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  • danhab99@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Having to manage pipes is a very 1880s thing we still have to do in 2025.

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    • DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What do you mean? I put a humidifier on one side of the room and a dehumidifier on the other side to get drinking water moved around.

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      • danhab99@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I feel like you’re not the first person to invent wifi water but I’m sure they had to add something to the building codes because of what the first person did.

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      • ZiemekZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        There’s a simpler way.

        Wireless shower head

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      • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I just imagined the power bill required to do this. Now my wallet hurts.

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      • jyl@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Surely you’re also powering those appliances wirelessly

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How is cable management an 80s thing?

    Audio had cable management fun in the 70s. Honestly cable management being a real clusterfuck is more of a 2000s thing when all the tiny handheld gadgets really became popular.

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    • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Turns out OP is talking about the 1880s

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  • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Older cable management was fucking elegant.
    You can’t convince me that cable lacing isn’t fucking fabulous.

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      An elegant technique, for a more civilised age.

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    • vrek@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      See cable management is great when done correctly. At my job we had a audit complaint that there were too many wires on the ground which would make it difficult to clean under them. Management told all the techs to do cable management so the wires were not dangling. The techs did as told so now we keep getting wires failing because they are super tight and strained. No one mentioned a service loop or anything of the sort. In addition now it takes like 2 hours to replace the bad wire because you have to undo all the wire management, replace the wire and redo all 400 Ip ties.

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      • fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I once worked in an office where the IT people would go around and zip-tie the cables to the furniture in the conference rooms, in ways that invariably led to the cables coming under tension and eventually fraying and breaking. (Especially some of the pricier laptop charging cables.)

        I’d snip the offending zip-ties (selectively) when I noticed, but they went through a lot of expensive charging cables because someone thought slack cables looked messy.

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    • MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Brillant

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    • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And it still works and looks great today!

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Cables being the main way of power transmission, they’re not going away anytime soon. In fact they’re proliferating, given the increasing number of devices.

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yay for USB C standardization!

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  • jyl@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “A very 80s thing” is an odd way to put it.

    I hate cables sometimes, but I also don’t like managing batteries.

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    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The only alternative here is wireless high-power transmission for the home. Which is possible, but you’ll run into issues like “what is that ringing sound?” and “why do my fillings feel hot?”

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  • MTK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    To be fair, almost all low power devices can be fully wireless, but in a kind of stupid way where they have a wired station. Power cords are not going anywhere anytime soon.

    But OP, what wires do you have to manage? Most low power devices these days are wireless, and high power devices can’t safely be wireless, probably for ever.

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Still wishing we had used SCART in the US in the 80s. So much simpler than the rca/svideo/coaxial nest of wires.

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  • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I would sell all my data to someone for inventing a way to get rid of cables. Yes I fucking love (the concept of) Bluetooth.

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  • MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Just want to say that this thought did happened in the shower. I was born in 1982 so I remeber when we had remote controls and phones with cables. In my mind cables are not futuristic, they are very analog, and us being in 2025 we should have flying cars, hoverboards and wireless energy. It’s not shomething I believe It’s just a funny thought.

    If someone feom the 60s came to 2025 they would be kind of very disapointed lol

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  • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Cables are why I don’t want to do gigs.

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