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

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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

The connector was gold plated. Not a golden wire.

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