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Challenge: come up with categories for the boxes such that every item has exactly one box that is correct for it. I've got "USB", "AV" and "Networking & PC Acc
by advisedwang 23d ago
Challenge: come up with categories for the boxes such that every item has exactly one box that is correct for it.
I've got "USB", "AV" and "Networking & PC Accessories", which obviously has enormous overlap, but equally divides the cables I have pretty nicely.
- dgritsko 23d agoI think I've got the same three boxes. HDMI cables and adapters fall into the Venn diagram overlap of the last two IMO. You could also make a strong argument for USB also falling into "PC Accessories". But there's nothing quite as satisfying as having the _exactly right_ cable or adapter on hand to solve a problem. Makes it all worth it!
- intrasight 23d agoFunny this came up hn today. this week I did some organization of my cable boxes. I use banker boxes on a steel shelving unit. I put the cables and parts inappropriate boxes and labeled them and feel that my corner of the universe is a little bit better organized than before. Mine is similar but I split audio and video since I have a lot of audio-specific stuff. "Video" only has the various monitor cable standards going back 20-odd years.
- bakies 23d agoThose are my categories!
- ramses0 22d ago"USB", "TV/HDMI", "Networking", "Every Audio Connector Known to Man", and the inimitable: "Plugs-to-Wall"
- jameshart 22d agoWe have the same. Do you know why the ‘every audio connector known to man’ box contain every audio connector known to man but yet never a stereo 1/8” headphone-jack to headphone-jack cable?
- fragmede 22d agodon't know any audio engineers? If your bboc is simply a mishmash of things you've accumulated over the years, and not intelligently designed, it won't, but don't make the mistake of extrapolating from your own experience and thinking it applies to everybody.
- ramses0 22d agoI've routed around that problem with several RCA-to-Stereo plugs for "when in a pinch" (and their natural reverse, the "stereo-to-RCA") but am still stymied sometimes by the difference between the different 2.5mm and 3.5mm spacings for microphone support. Supposedly I must keep an eye out for "a TRRS-to-dual-TRS splitter cable to fork the signals into their respective ports"... Tip/Ring/Ring/Sleeve, who knew??!?
- theamk 23d agoEasy! I put exclusions on my labels "USB cables, standard" "USB passive/special, except pigtails and USB->AV" "AV, including USB-AV cables"
- xcf_seetan 22d agoAudio, computer, electric!
- hamdingers 22d agoHey could you put these powered computer speakers away for me? :)
- tiagod 22d agoI have USB, Generic Power, IEC, Network, Audio/Video, Misc
- colechristensen 22d agoAV, Network, Data, Power (if it doesn't fit the first category, try the next) If one of those buckets is too full, prepend it with something more specific i.e. USB, Data instead of just Data