Is there an official scientific name for this condition?
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Is there an official scientific name for this condition?
You find cables for hardware you haven’t owned in decades, and somehow your brain still insists, “Better keep these. They might come in handy.”
@masek we kept a bunch of spare BNC cables for an embarassing number of years before donating them because "someone might have a use for them".
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@masek we kept a bunch of spare BNC cables for an embarassing number of years before donating them because "someone might have a use for them".
@commonst A few years back, I still had a way to connect to Tick Ethernet
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Is there an official scientific name for this condition?
You find cables for hardware you haven’t owned in decades, and somehow your brain still insists, “Better keep these. They might come in handy.”
Diogenes syndrome?
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I still have VGA cables. Civilizations have risen and fallen since they were last useful, but somehow they remain under my desk, quietly waiting for history to repeat itself.
@masek
My neighbour still uses a VGA cable.His PC has VGA and DisplayPort. His monitor has VGA and HDMI.
He is not an IT nerd, doesn't know or care about DisplayPort to HDMI converter cables.
Hence VGA.
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Is there an official scientific name for this condition?
You find cables for hardware you haven’t owned in decades, and somehow your brain still insists, “Better keep these. They might come in handy.”
@masek@infosec.exchange I have boxed up a large box of these and the box has been untouched for a year, yet I still can't bring myself to get rid of them. And somehow, now, I could probably fill another box!
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Is there an official scientific name for this condition?
You find cables for hardware you haven’t owned in decades, and somehow your brain still insists, “Better keep these. They might come in handy.”
@masek As I see it:"Common sense".
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@masek
My neighbour still uses a VGA cable.His PC has VGA and DisplayPort. His monitor has VGA and HDMI.
He is not an IT nerd, doesn't know or care about DisplayPort to HDMI converter cables.
Hence VGA.
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Is there an official scientific name for this condition?
You find cables for hardware you haven’t owned in decades, and somehow your brain still insists, “Better keep these. They might come in handy.”
@masek hoarding?
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Is there an official scientific name for this condition?
You find cables for hardware you haven’t owned in decades, and somehow your brain still insists, “Better keep these. They might come in handy.”
@masek me keeping IDE cables cuz idk man, I might need 'em
Also, this would be hoarding
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Is there an official scientific name for this condition?
You find cables for hardware you haven’t owned in decades, and somehow your brain still insists, “Better keep these. They might come in handy.”
@masek Possibly a subset of Hoarding Disorder (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoarding_disorder ).
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@briankrebs @masek I once threw away a cable I never thought I use, and then the very next month I needed it!!!
Never again
@catsalad @briankrebs @masek I've been hard on myself for getting rid of these. Especially as I've had some circumstances where I couldn't find the right cable in the big box of cables, so ended up buying one.
If I can get it on Amazon with next day or same day delivery and I'm not actively using it, then it goes in the bin.
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Is there an official scientific name for this condition?
You find cables for hardware you haven’t owned in decades, and somehow your brain still insists, “Better keep these. They might come in handy.”
phobia funium disponendi
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@briankrebs @masek I once threw away a cable I never thought I use, and then the very next month I needed it!!!
Never again
@catsalad @briankrebs @masek Guy I know asked me if I had an adapter he could use with his device, so I rummaged in my bag of cords and adapters and came up with one that would work and also had his name on it. (He'd added it to my collection meant to go for recycling about a year earlier.)
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Braindead ?
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@masek I think I’ve oversold myself.
My Finnish is anchored in 1950s northern country, farm girl dialect.
(Having learned from my 1950s, northern Finland farm girl mother, when I was a kid).
But I will consult the cousins for an authentic translation.
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Is there an official scientific name for this condition?
You find cables for hardware you haven’t owned in decades, and somehow your brain still insists, “Better keep these. They might come in handy.”
@masek Sowas dachte ich auch, bis der VGA auf HDMI-Adapter nicht an dem Secondhand Serverboard funktioniert hat, und ich dann arg tricksen musste. Wobei dann der Monitor das nächste Problem war, gut dass ich mit dem Sperrmüll da gewartet hatte.
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Is there an official scientific name for this condition?
You find cables for hardware you haven’t owned in decades, and somehow your brain still insists, “Better keep these. They might come in handy.”
@masek I still have a box with 10base2 cable, connectors, junctions and terminators.
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Is there an official scientific name for this condition?
You find cables for hardware you haven’t owned in decades, and somehow your brain still insists, “Better keep these. They might come in handy.”
@masek this is just called being well prepared
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Is there an official scientific name for this condition?
You find cables for hardware you haven’t owned in decades, and somehow your brain still insists, “Better keep these. They might come in handy.”
@masek Because one time I did throw away a specialized cable and a few weeks later found the device that would have worked if I still had it.
