59 points

This joke would have fucking slayed in 1998.

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47 points

1998: That would be a waste of a perfectly good cable. Never know when you might need it, so it goes in the box with the others.

2023: The fuck are all these cables for? I’ll make a meme… but only with one. Never know when you might need the others.

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6 points

Just clean it off afterwards, they don’t have chips in them like today’s smart cables, just clean them off and dry them off and they’ll work just fine afterwards.

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6 points

I fully agree with this comment, and yet I feel personally attacked.

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8 points

Got my grandfather to have a chuckle at it

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21 points

I put them in in Parallel

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5 points

I tend to go with GPIBnuts, sometimes CAN flakes, for those special occasions

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12 points

I would not trust anyone putting milk in their bowl first

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1 point

You soggy cereal eaters make me sick!

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11 points

That’s definitely a VGA or DVI cable and not a DE9 serial cable. It’s too wide.

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8 points

The I²C bus on pins 12 and 15 is definitely a serial interface, and arguably each color is serial, even if they’re not… the traditional sort.

It is quite amusing how many less ambiguous serial connectors they could have trivially chosen. PCI-E, ethernet (8P8C), SATA, SAS, HDMI, FireWire… the options are numerous.

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3 points

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