• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Trim it down to one of each cable. You don’t need a half-dozen patch cables. That weird wall-wart with the proprietary DIN plug for the laptop you no longer have, or the voltage- and milliamp-specific application you’ll never need. The 4 SATA cables…etc.

    Pare it down in order of likely need. You might need a couple USB cables and maybe a couple SATA cables, but you don’t need 3 34-pin floppy drive ribbon cables.

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      3 months ago

      I threw out about a dozen DC adapters last month (2 replaced in use adapters, another ~10 in “the box”) after finding these USB C PD to various voltage and amp DC barrel plugs on Amazon:

      https://amzn.eu/d/h7UBsKI

      There’s tons of kinds, and they’re probably a fire hazard, but I can buy a USB-C PD power strip and some short 6, 8, and 12 inch USB-C cables to power my dsl router, wifi AP, raspberry pi, and NUC, all with one wall outlet and none of the cable mess.