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 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
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@wonkothesane I just discarded ~20 S-Video cables 2 hours ago.
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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 same goes for hardware - looks at his elsa 56K modem on the shelf
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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.
Naming the medical condition for the well recognised pathological condition resulting in legacy cable types being retained indefinitely… just in case they are needed
Latin:
Cablus Retentiva Disorder (CRD)
Contenders:
• Technocable Accumulation Syndrome (TCAS)
• Retro-Interface Cable Conservatism (RICC)
• Cable Accumulation Pathology (CAP)
• Legacy Conductor Retention Phenomenon (LCRP)
• Chronic Conductor Conservation Condition (C4) -
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 pragmatism.
Commodore 64 power supplies fetch nearly $100 on ebay.
If people ever get that nostalgic about ThinkPads and Dell laptops, I get to retire!
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@masek pragmatism.
Commodore 64 power supplies fetch nearly $100 on ebay.
If people ever get that nostalgic about ThinkPads and Dell laptops, I get to retire!
@jws I have a C64 (Serial# 600) here
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@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.
@briankrebs @masek I once threw away a cable I never thought I use, and then the very next month I needed it!!!
Never again
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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
Oh yes. I have enough cables to make a museum at home. ADSL cables, for example. -
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".
