• NathanRanch@lemmy.zip
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    17 hours ago

    Literally never found myself wanting one of these on my cable. I’ve found myself swearing at them more times than I can remember

    • shiftymccool@piefed.ca
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      11 hours ago

      You’ve apparently never pulled hundreds of feet of ethernet cable from racks or under raised datacenter floors. Without these, you’re replacing that connector once it pops loose from the tangle without a tab

        • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
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          9 hours ago

          People who work on highrises. Ownership and management really have no concept of what they are asking when they say the server room needs to go from one side of the building to another, especially if there is satellite internet. Fuck satellite internet.

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          9 hours ago

          Broadcast jobs. Every single job you run, and then later pull, dozens or hundreds of data cables.

          Oh, labelling? Forget it. You’ll label the first batch, and then be in a frantic rush that nothing else is labelled. Just a messy spreadsheet that you try to not forget.

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            3 hours ago

            Your comment is giving me flashbacks. We did label all our cables though (with masking tape and a marker).