I hate devices that I can’t plug in and leave plugged in. Nothing but useless trash that I know will ultimately fail and need to be replaced, instead of easily repairing with a new pile of copper strands.
Cables or bust. I don’t even use wifi as my main Internet. Much prefer wired Ethernet for stability and extra security.
I’d like to imagine that you’ve found an ethernet cable that mimics the long coiled phone cords of the '80s and '90s so that you can walk around the house with your desktop PC chatting with your girlfriends all evening after school.
I wish lol, I loved hanging the receiver from the cable to untangle this mess
I don’t know, man, walking around with a whole desktop PC, with monitors, keyboard and mouse? that does not seem to be easy. but sure it adds to the fun factor of imagining it with the curly cable!
Wires are life.
Learn to manage (route, store, wind, respect bend radius, etc) cables and reliability will be your reward.
Cables being the main way of power transmission, they’re not going away anytime soon. In fact they’re proliferating, given the increasing number of devices.
Yay for USB C standardization!
How is cable management an 80s thing?
Audio had cable management fun in the 70s. Honestly cable management being a real clusterfuck is more of a 2000s thing when all the tiny handheld gadgets with built in batteries really became popular.
Older cable management was fucking elegant.
You can’t convince me that cable lacing isn’t fucking fabulous.An elegant technique, for a more civilised age.
Brillant
And it still works and looks great today!
“A very 80s thing” is an odd way to put it.
I hate cables sometimes, but I also don’t like managing batteries.
The only alternative here is wireless high-power transmission for the home. Which is possible, but you’ll run into issues like “what is that ringing sound?” and “why do my fillings feel hot?”
To be fair, almost all low power devices can be fully wireless, but in a kind of stupid way where they have a wired station. Power cords are not going anywhere anytime soon.
But OP, what wires do you have to manage? Most low power devices these days are wireless, and high power devices can’t safely be wireless, probably for ever.
I would sell all my data to someone for inventing a way to get rid of cables. Yes I fucking love (the concept of) Bluetooth.
Still wishing we had used SCART in the US in the 80s. So much simpler than the rca/svideo/coaxial nest of wires.
Cables are why I don’t want to do gigs.
Just want to say that this thought did happened in the shower. I was born in 1982 so I remeber when we had remote controls and phones with cables. In my mind cables are not futuristic, they are very analog, and us being in 2025 we should have flying cars, hoverboards and wireless energy. It’s not something I believe… It’s just a funny silly thought.
If someone feom the 60s came to 2025 they would be kind of very disapointed lol
