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Huh, I'm closer to being Borg than I realized.

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website⁩ to ⁨risa@startrek.website⁩

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  • zepheriths@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Proof the cable management is optional and doesn’t have an effect on the computers ability to work

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    • SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Spoken like someone who’s never had to replace a cable in a long run

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      • Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s an effect on your ability to work, not the computers. The computer still doesn’t care.

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      • Chais@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The Borg don’t have that problem. Every drone knows everything the hive knows and the hive never forgets. Therefore every drone knows which cable to replace, should the need arise.

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      • Steeve@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        As long as you know where it starts and where it ends you can just pop a new one there and let the old cable be absorbed into the rest

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      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Replacing a cable in that mess is a lot quicker than having to undo dozens of cable ties though.

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      • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Nobody replaces “a cable” in a long run.

        The only two actions available are to add a cable, or to replace an entire nest of them.

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      • zepheriths@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Or trust me I have. Imagine if you will a house from the 1930s with the internet cable running from the opposite side of the house as the router. However the wire is deliberately put through as many rooms as possible on the way to the router and super glued into place as though it’s fine to trip on a wire 5 times to get to a room.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Depends how on reasonable they are, if they’re just long cables and dangling on the floor it doesn’t really matter except for aesthetics.

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    • ultratiem@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It most definitely has an effect on my mental state!

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  • rekabis@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Cable management doesn’t matter if:

    1. You only care if it works
    2. You have the accumulated memories of trillions of prior drones, including the ones who built that mess in the first place, so you already know what each cable does and where it goes.
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    • wahming@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I built the mess under my desk, that doesn’t mean I know what the cables do any more.

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      • UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This dude just admitted he’s not a superior species

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      • salton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Try to cable manage them. The mess will look about the same but you’ll have a pretty good idea of what is what after. Lol

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    • usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You only care if it works

      If you can’t maintain it it won’t work forever

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  • MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Image

    It’s for when they run out of regeneration alcoves

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  • Kushan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not that they hadn’t found a cure for bad cable management, it’s that by the 24th century nobody would care.

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    • The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Image

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All those cables are exactly where they were supposed to be!

    DO NOT TOUCH THEM!

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also, has anyone ever noticed that the Borg don’t have printers?

    Want to destroy the Borg … just patch one 2000s era Epson Printer with a shitty software driver to one of their ships and watch all hell break loose

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    • Gork@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Calm down there Satan

      No species deserves to be genocided by faulty printer drivers

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I see you refrained from using a modern HP.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Obviously the treat the knowledge as the thought virus it is

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Their cable management used to be fine.

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    The only answer is Borg enshittification.

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    • The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ah damn. They must have assimilated some publicly traded tech companies.

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  • SARGEx117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Anesthetics are irrelevant.

    You will be assimilated. (and forced to wire things as directly as possible because that is more efficient as long as it doesn’t hinder future endeavors)

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do you mean “aesthetics?” Or is spelling also irrelevant?

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      • Confuzzeled@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Perhaps the borg are savagely ‘plugging’ things into various orifices sans anaesthetic. They truly are evil.

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  • Neon_Dystopia@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I can excuse forced assimilation, but I draw the line at poor cable management.

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    • The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can excuse forced assimilation?

      (I want you to know that I tried to add an image of Shirley reacting, but it failed 4x, so you’ll have to use your imagination.)

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      • Sotuanduso@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Speaking of failed images, I can actually see your memes from lemm.ee now! Not sure what changed, but yay.

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  • xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s for dramatic effect

    They’re such Drama Queens smh

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    • The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They must have assimilated some theater techs.

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      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That would explain the lighting.

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    • logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Maybe those cables are decorative and reminiscent of the Borg’s sense of aesthetics. I mean, look at their goddamn fashion sense.

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      • xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s true, they are drippin (in cables)

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  • Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When your mind has the power of the Borg collective, you don’t need silly inefficient structures to make it easier for the human mind to handle.

    Neither spaghetti cables or spaghetti code are a hindrance when there is brutal efficiency to be had.

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  • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They didn’t assimilate any computer nerds yet. They seem to only go for hot women.

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    • MooseBoys@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I object to the assertion that the intersection of the sets “computer nerds” and “hot women” is the empty set.

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  • Stamets@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As someone who just had to set up a distiller and deal with my cables, I do not appreciate this call out. Also can you remove your spy cameras please?

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    • The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, you’re getting very good ratings on Borg TV

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      • Stamets@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Well I demand part of the profit!

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Borg are played up to be this hyper-advanced ruthlessly efficient hive mind, but they nearly never act like it. Case in point: Seven of Nine has two tits and one eye.

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  • xantoxis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why do they have cables at all? The individual borglings seem to be able to talk to the borg mind without any cables.

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Whenever those cables get broken in the show they have steam, water or green fire coming out of them.

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    • Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s the WiFi, you STILL gotta have a cable or three somewhere.

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      • salton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Wireless power transmission is bretty shitty in practice. Anything transmitted wirelessly will be occupying that space in whatever scifi spectrum they’re using. So for high speed data transfer also they will have much much more spectrum. To use within each each cable.

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    • thepreciousboar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No matter what companies will tell you, cables is always faster and more efficient than wireless, there’s physical reasons foe that. Drones are linked to others and to cubes wirelessly because they need to do stuff and move around. Vessels are linked wirelessly with each other for obvious reasons. But there is likely an elabration center in each vessel and it’s going to be cabled to every alcove and every sensor and actuator of the ship

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Aww this made me check and there is no /cablegore on Lemmy yet 😕

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Create it

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s a pretty realistic depiction of every server room I’ve ever been in.

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  • joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If it ain’t broke, don’t adapt it.

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  • jerome@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Maybe they're just a bunch of sexy snakes.

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  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Limited to non-existent RGB too, obviously not advanced at all

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    • Malgas@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They have plenty of RGB. It’s just that they set it all to G.

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      • Kowowow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They only use the other colours for pride month to let organic know that the borg will accept anyone whether they like it or not

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      • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They have the R on the drones themselves sometimes.

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      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Lul, true. Capable of RGB & not constantly using asynchronous rainbow effects on everything is a true sign of advanced borgies.

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  • SeabassDan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Checkmate, atheists

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  • shiveyarbles@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s ok everything seems to be working

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