• Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
    6·
    23 hours ago

    My partner just picked up an old second generation iPod. When she saw the weird proprietary end on the wall side of the cable, she actually said, “We’ll have to order an adapter so I can hook it up to iTunes.”

    Lol. Lmao even

  • hactar42@lemmy.world
    521·
    2 days ago

    My wife went into labor with our second child and like 3 AM. I load our 4 year old and her into the car. A little while later Grandpa shows up and takes our son home. My wife gives birth to our daughter. I go back home that evening because Grandpa has to drive an hour back to his house to feed his horses.

    Go to put my son to bed and his brown blanket that he has slept with every night is nowhere to be found. I knew he loved this blanket and knew this day would come, so I had a spare hidden in the house.

    I march proudly in and hand him this blanket. He looks at it, looks at me, and says, “old brown blanket”. For context he is autistic and had a severe speech delay, so it was kind of shocking to hear him say that. I explain he can have it tomorrow and that this one will do for tonight.

    I go to turn on his noise maker which he has slept with every night of his life and it won’t turn on. Turns out our cat picked that day to chew completely through the cord and then continue to munch on it making it unrepairable.

    So in one day he got drug out of bed at 3 am, got a new sister, lost his brown blanket, and his noise maker wouldn’t work.

    Luckily I had my box of cables and found one that worked with his noise maker. I was so excited when I ran up the stairs with his working noise maker.

    He is 15 now, still has his brown blanket and still reminds me about the time I tried to give him “new brown blanket.” But not that his noise maker had a new cord.

    • username_1@programming.dev
      51·
      2 days ago

      Nobody is that old. I was asked for floppy cable (more modern, IDE-like looking, not older MFM-like looking) just a few months ago. I believe we still don’t have any obsolete cables. At least in a computer related world.

  • HorreC@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 days ago

    I was just looking at my serial to Palm Pre sync cable thinking “Hope I can use this again one day”

    • shai_hulud@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 day ago

      oh god. I moved a couple of months ago and found the cradle for my handspring visor and an aftermarket folding keyboard for it.

      useful, that

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    112·
    2 days ago

    I, in the other hand, snip the connectors off of old cables and power bricks. I have a box full of plugs and PSUs, so with a little bit of soldering I can power everything and connect anything to anything.

    • Steve@startrek.websiteOP
      3·
      1 day ago

      I personally have boxes labeled video cables, audio cables, misc computer cables, USB cables, meter probes, IEC power cords, misc power adapters, 5v wall warts, 12v wall warts, other wall warts, and computer power cables, if I haven’t forgotten any.

      Edit and coax.

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
    9·
    2 days ago

    It’s not just for a macboook, it’s for the miniDVI camera I used for 8 months in 2005 to make crappy interlaced art films.

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      Exactly. I’ve never owned Apple anything and I’ve used 4-, 6-, and 8-pin FW cables all the time. My camcorders used it. My DJ turntables and 4-channel mixer did as well.

      I miss being able to just daisy-chain all of it together, which reduced the number of ports you needed on the back of your PC. You could literally get away with having just 1 or 2 ports. USB never had that (and still doesn’t). It’s a shame that FireWire died off when IMO it should have continued to evolve and eventually replaced USB.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
    7·
    2 days ago

    In contrast to the other father, who when asked if they had a cable or screw or whatever it is that would fix the problem, says, “I did, once. I was told to throw out that junk.”

    • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 day ago

      I once tried to explain to my mother why it was very important to have a large selection of metric nuts and bolts of varying lengths and sizes on hand at all times. She did not understand.

  • Bitflip@lemmy.ml
    5·
    2 days ago

    Why yes, my digital video camera does in fact use tapes. Check out this ninja flick I’m making in iMovie