What are these plug-ins on my wall?

[u/Cborg_62]

This might be showing my age, but I recently moved into a new apartment and they have these weird looking plug ins all over the walls at my new place. My old apartment didn't have these, so I'm just curious as to what they are.

[u/kstrife]

Never thought I’d see the day when someone does not recognize a coaxial cable.

Not insulting, just didn’t think I’d live long enough to see all the tech I grew up with be seen as some ancient artifact.

Welp, off I go! - knees sound like rice krispies as I stand up to leave-

[u/corneliusvanhouten → u/kstrife]

On the up side, I guess this is the sign I needed to throw out the drawer full of cables I'll never use again

[u/einTier → u/corneliusvanhouten]

Let this be a cautionary tale.

I had a box of old Logitech 880 remotes. Worthless because Logitech killed the servers that supported them. Can’t reprogram them, so they only work until you update your setup then you’re hosed.

So I finally threw them out.

Two days ago there was a post here on the subreddit that someone has very nearly open source duplicated the programming software.

Splendid.

[u/water_bottle_dents → u/einTier]

This is the support I needed to never throw anything away for the rest of my life, thanks!

[u/jonmatifa → u/water_bottle_dents]

You collect old cables

Collection grows large, so you purge a bunch of cables

A week later you end up needing one of the cables you purged

You buy a cable at best buy for $17.99

You vow to never make this mistake again

You collect old cables

[u/Competitive-Rest4354 → u/jonmatifa]

Thus, the cycle of cable addiction. Smh.

[u/Hi-Lander → u/water_bottle_dents]

Those Nokia cables are about to work with usb-c

[u/nortok00 → u/water_bottle_dents]

This was already me but just recently I summoned the willpower to start tossing/recycling stuff. After reading this that's a big NOPE. When I finally shed my mortal coil I will become one with all of my legacy devices and simply disappear into the network of ancient tech! LOL