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What's crazy is that not one person got reprimanded for this disaster.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I always dream I’m gonna make one of those neatly arranged cable porn displays. I get the spool of cat6, my crimpers, zip ties, etc, then about 20 minutes in I run into the one proprietary cable that’s way too long. I try to tuck away the excess and it never works well. Then all the power cables. Then I give up and basically get this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

power cables

PTSD intensifies

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Right? I’m convinced every time I see some ultra fancy network cabinet that they either have some fancy method of making iec 13 cables, a budget to buy a ton of cables in custom lengths (and the time to wait for them to ship), or (imo most likely) they’re hiding an absolute mess behind the nice part