https://startrek.website/u/Steve posted on Mar 7, 2026 21:30
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/comicstrips/p/930685/prepared-for-this-day
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/comicstrips/p/930685/prepared-for-this-day
I’m the father in this scenario…
you stole my box of assorted cables!
I’m in this image and men, allow me to show you my collection!
What a legend
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.”
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.
❤️
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.
I had to buy this cable a couple of months ago because one was missing from my box of cables.
This is why I have an emotional support box of obsolete cables
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.
Why yes, my digital video camera does in fact use tapes. Check out this ninja flick I’m making in iMovie
I was just looking at my serial to Palm Pre sync cable thinking “Hope I can use this again one day”
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.
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).
Why do people do this? No one asked, and I’m the first comment reply. Clearly this is not appropriate and the shaming will continue until your behavior changes.
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
Go on! We can’t wait!
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.
Any time SO says “do we need this cable?”
YES OF COURSE WE DO. OUR ANCESTORS FOUGHT FOR THAT CABLE
Oh man if I ever have kids, this is absolutely gonna be me.
Love this one (sorry for the Short, but I couldn’t find a regular version)
I have a box of cables, and still somehow when I need one, it’s never one from the box, or the ones I have are crappy.
Just one box? How big is it?
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
FireWire was taken from us too soon.
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
It’s amazing how wrong you are.
why does who do what ?
didn’t know a noise maker was a thing,… but I understand why it would exist. Nice story
