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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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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3 points

Hmmm?

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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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3 points

Honest question, what do you use these ports for apart from VGA? I never used anything but VGA but these ports look the same.

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9 points

there’s a similar looking plug for serial, RS232

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14 points

They look similar but a VGA port has 15 pins and a serial port has only 9. Serial ports like this one were really common before USB was used. You would plug peripherals into it kind of the same way you use a USB port. Mice were probably the most common use, but you could plug a lot of different things into them.

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3 points

Back when you had to manually configure your gamepad…
Uniquely for each game…
By looking up specific numbers in your gamepad manual.

Kids have no idea how easy they have it these days.

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4 points

Of course it is like USB since the S in USB stand for serial; Universal Serial Bus.

I don’t remember if RS232 was plug and play or hot swap though. I think you might have had to boot with those plugged in. PS/2 I think you could? And of course USB you can. Good times.

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4 points

Yes and no. They could be unplugged and replugged without a reboot. But also you’d have to manually configure the communication parameters of the port. So I hesitate to say “hot swap”.

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