I had a day off of work and was tracing down a weird AC hum reverberating through our house. Turned out it was my subwoofer/pc speaker system on its
way out, they were probably 10 years old at this point.

I replaced them with some cheapo speakers I had lying around, and decided to take the time to vacuum under my desk and dress the cables.

Of course, in the process of moving cables around, I damaged an HDMI cable running from primary my monitor to the PC. No problem, I thought, I have
lots of HDMI cables lying around. Look at the monitor end to realize I'd had to buy a DVI to HDMI cable. Where am I going to find one of those? Ordered
one on Amazon, and in the meantime ended up using my secondary monitor as my primary monitor with a spare analog to DVI adapter.

(My video card has one DisplayPort and one HDMI port. Why, I have no
clue...)

This has got to be a grand conspiracy to get us to buy more cables.


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Hello Kurt!

On 06 Aug 2021, Kurt Weiske said the following...

reverberating through our house. Turned out it was my subwoofer/pc speaker system on its way out, they were probably 10 years old at this point.

Yes, some of these things (especially if they're constantly powered on) seem to be failing after a while... And many of them don't have an interchangeable power supply. :-/

Of course, in the process of moving cables around, I damaged an HDMI
cable running from primary my monitor to the PC. No problem, I thought,

I managed to knock (kind of) a plate with milk and cereals, milk pouring down the table, on to the chair, down on the parquet flooring... :-O

I never thought that little milk could create such a big mess. :-O

So that was a rough awakening. :)

Best regards
Björn

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Kurt Weiske wrote to All <=-

This has got to be a grand conspiracy to get us to buy more cables.

People can build anything to be more durable but they won't so they can guarantee more business for themselves in the future.

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Re: Re: One step forward...
By: Sean Dennis to Kurt Weiske on Sun Aug 08 2021 02:48 pm

Kurt Weiske wrote to All <=-

This has got to be a grand conspiracy to get us to buy more cables.

People can build anything to be more durable but they won't so they can guarantee more business for themselves in the future.

--Sean

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There is also the fact that the durable version of a thing may be five cents more expensive, so the consumer would pick the cheap short-living version anyway...
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There is also the fact that the durable version of a thing may be five cents more expensive, so the consumer would pick the cheap short-living version anyway...

Very true.

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