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Never again (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Trim it down to one of each cable. You don't need a half-dozen patch cables. That weird wall-wart with the proprietary DIN plug for the laptop you no longer have, or the voltage- and milliamp-specific application you'll never need. The 4 SATA cables...etc.

Pare it down in order of likely need. You might need a couple USB cables and maybe a couple SATA cables, but you don't need 3 34-pin floppy drive ribbon cables.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I threw out about a dozen DC adapters last month (2 replaced in use adapters, another ~10 in "the box") after finding these USB C PD to various voltage and amp DC barrel plugs on Amazon:

https://amzn.eu/d/h7UBsKI

There's tons of kinds, and they're probably a fire hazard, but I can buy a USB-C PD power strip and some short 6, 8, and 12 inch USB-C cables to power my dsl router, wifi AP, raspberry pi, and NUC, all with one wall outlet and none of the cable mess.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yes. The correct approach is to get rid of all the cables that are not needed, and to keep the few cables that might come in handy. Throwing away a collection in bulk is risky.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I took the middle road: use cable zip ties to bundle them and put all in a bag. Since finding a cable is infrequent, you don't need to optimize for that case.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I have plenty of duplicate cables. Pretty sure I don't need all of them so I can throw out most of them and just keep one of each.

Pretty sure I don't need a SCART to VGA cable but doesn't take that much space up.

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