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What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] sour@feddit.de 27 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I was buying a toslink cable recently and I shit you not, there was a gold plated optical cable...

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[–] Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Fucking Toslink: one round optical fiber in the middle, but it plugs in in only one position out of four, and you can't feel which way the female connector is. EU should fine the assholes responsible.

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[–] funbreaker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Doesn‘t that defeat the entire purpose of Toslink cables ? The light can‘t go through gold?

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[–] sour@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago