Vga Maste Race

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Vga Maste Race

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The universal law of tech hoarding strikes again! This is basically Murphy's Law for nerds - the moment you toss that ancient VGA cable you've been storing since the Clinton administration is precisely when some legacy system demands it.

Every developer has that drawer of technological shame - USB-A cables, random adapters, and at least three different types of power bricks that don't match anything you currently own. But throw something away? That's just begging the universe to make you need it.

This is why my closet still has a parallel port cable from 1998. Not because I'll use it, but because I'm not falling for this cosmic trap. Nice try, universe.

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