Is there an official scientific name for this condition?
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@nikolaihampton Those words sound not scientific (at least to German ears).
It should sound more Latin. Otherwise someone could have the impression we are just concatenating words.
@masek I could try in Finnish but, you know, we just concatenate words together.
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@masek I could try in Finnish but, you know, we just concatenate words together.
@nikolaihampton Let me have it!
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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.
This is hoarding 101.
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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 Depends on your hobbies?
But yeah, unless you want to run or salvage old stuff, most of these are useless by now. No one's going to come up with new Firewire hardware or such, and VGA is increasingly omitted on both new PCs and new monitors.
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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 there should be a corollary that as soon as you throw away a cable you don't think you'll need anymore you will suddenly need it
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@nikolaihampton Let me have it!
@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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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 I have loads of VGA cables, as the VGA port ist the best and most common connector for analogue video. I even sell selfmade adapters from VGA to SCART, S-Video and Composite. Retrogamers love them.
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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.
Are 6 spare Apple Watch band enough?
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@masek I have loads of VGA cables, as the VGA port ist the best and most common connector for analogue video. I even sell selfmade adapters from VGA to SCART, S-Video and Composite. Retrogamers love them.
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@Lalufu During Corona I built a detachable green screen for my home office.
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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 Yup. That explains two full boxes of adapters and power cords that I cannot bring myself to throw out or bring to Staples for recycling or whatever.
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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 In Swabian German, this kind of stuff is called "Gruschd"
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@masek In Swabian German, this kind of stuff is called "Gruschd"
@SonstHarmlos @masek In Bavarian it's "Grusch", so I propose "Gruschismus" or if you want to frame it as an illness "Gruschose"
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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 The problem is, every now and then I _do_ find a use for one. And the countdown to a cable purge is once again reset at ~6,300,000 seconds and counting.
I don't think I have ever seen that countdown hit zero.
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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.”
Hoarding.
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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 I had to borrow one such cable last year. Eventually I bought a VGA just so I can use HDMI instead.
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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.”
Braindead ?
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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 guess it would fall under hoarding disorder, but it would a pretty mild and harmless version of that
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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 Generally, it's hoarding. It could also be a special case of sunken-costs fallacy; as in, "I've hold to this cable for so long that I cannot simply stop now".
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@masek I had to borrow one such cable last year. Eventually I bought a VGA just so I can use HDMI instead.
@sassdawe I kept my VGA-to-HDMI-adapter
