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Overcome

Hardware Debugging

3 days ago 162.3K views 0 shares

Overcome

When you order the wrong audio cable but you've already spent your entire tech budget on energy drinks and mechanical keyboards, so you enter full MacGyver mode. That beautiful abomination of adapters stacked on adapters is the physical manifestation of every developer's "it works on my machine" energy. Sure, it looks like a fire hazard designed by someone who's never heard of signal degradation, but who cares? You're basically an engineer now. Bear Grylls would be proud of this survival instinct—turning a $5 mistake into a $50 Frankenstein's monster of connectors because admitting defeat and ordering the right cable would take 2-3 business days and you need that audio working RIGHT NOW.

Bob Wireley

Networking Devops Hardware Backend

11 days ago 209.7K views 1 shares

Bob Wireley

Someone took Bob Marley's iconic dreadlocks and recreated them with networking cables, creating "Bob Wireley" - the patron saint of every server room and data center. Those aren't dreads, they're Cat5e cables of freedom. Perfect representation of what's behind every wall in your office building. Somewhere, a network admin is looking at their cable management and thinking "yeah, that's about right." No woman, no WiFi, just pure chaos and ethernet connections that somehow still work. Fun fact: This level of cable management is what IT professionals call "organic growth architecture" - which is corporate speak for "nobody knows which cable does what anymore, but we're too afraid to unplug anything."

Cables

Hardware Programming Debugging

11 days ago 261.7K views 0 shares

Cables

When your cable management is so catastrophically bad that it becomes a work of art, you simply rebrand it as "intentional design." Someone literally painted circuit board traces on their wall to route their cables and then had the AUDACITY to add RGB lighting like they're showcasing a feature at CES. This is the physical manifestation of "it's not a bug, it's a feature" – except instead of code, it's your entertainment center looking like a cyberpunk fever dream. The best part? They committed SO HARD to this aesthetic disaster that they made it symmetrical. That's dedication to the bit right there.

Keeping Them In Case Prices Go Up

Hardware

16 days ago 174.2K views 0 shares

Keeping Them In Case Prices Go Up

Someone's hoarding computer fans like they're vintage NFTs. The "OnlyFans" label really ties the whole thing together—because apparently these dusty relics from dead builds are now considered premium content. The logic is flawless: keep every fan that's ever spun in your PC graveyard because surely, one day, the global fan market will crash and you'll be sitting on a goldmine. Right next to your collection of IDE cables and PS/2 adapters. This is the tech equivalent of keeping broken Christmas lights "just in case." Spoiler: they're not going up in price. But you're still not throwing them away.

Where Does This Scale On The Monitor Alignment Chart?

Windows Hardware Microsoft

20 days ago 266.4K views 0 shares

Where Does This Scale On The Monitor Alignment Chart?

Someone's Windows display settings got absolutely wrecked, and now they're being asked to identify which monitor is which in a lineup that looks like someone played Tetris with their screens while having a seizure. The monitors are numbered 1-12 in what appears to be the result of plugging in every display device you've ever owned simultaneously—probably after a driver update or unplugging the wrong HDMI cable. The best part? Monitor 11 is highlighted and positioned vertically like it's trying to escape this chaos. Someone's definitely running a setup that involves at least three different GPU outputs, two USB-C adapters that barely work, and one monitor that only turns on if you sacrifice a chicken to the display gods. The "Identify" button at the bottom is doing some heavy lifting here, because good luck figuring out which physical screen corresponds to number 7 without a PhD in spatial reasoning. Fun fact: Windows has supported up to 10 displays since Windows 7, but just because you *can* doesn't mean you *should*. This setup probably requires more cable management than a data center and draws enough power to dim the neighborhood lights.

What The Hell Is Going On

Networking Devops Hardware

21 days ago 329.2K views 3 shares

What The Hell Is Going On

Oh, just a casual Tuesday in the server room where someone decided to create a modern art installation titled "Ethernet Cable Massacre." Look at those poor RJ45 connectors just... existing in their half-crimped, wire-exposed glory, scattered around like the aftermath of a networking battlefield. Someone clearly had ONE job—crimp these cables properly—and instead chose violence. The MikroTik Cloud Router Switch sitting there all pristine and professional while surrounded by this absolute chaos of exposed twisted pairs is sending me. It's giving "I showed up to a black-tie event and everyone else came in pajamas" energy. Pro tip: This is what happens when you let the intern handle cable management after watching one YouTube tutorial at 2x speed. Those wires are more exposed than my code on GitHub, and just as embarrassing.

Only Setup You Need To Search For Cat Videos

Hardware Networking MacOS Apple

24 days ago 229.2K views 0 shares

Only Setup You Need To Search For Cat Videos

Someone built a literal Mac Mini data center just to browse the internet. That's right—dozens of Mac Minis, meticulously cabled and racked like they're running a Fortune 500 company's infrastructure, when in reality they're probably just streaming YouTube. The joke here is the absolutely insane overkill of creating a server farm with what appears to be 40+ Mac Minis (each costing a cool $600-$2000) for the most mundane task imaginable: watching cat videos. It's like hiring a NASA engineer to microwave your burrito. The cable management is actually pretty clean though, not gonna lie. Someone really said "if I'm going to waste an absurd amount of money on unnecessary hardware, I'm at least going to make it look professional." Respect the commitment to the bit, even if your electricity bill now rivals a small country's GDP.

What Was The Craziest "If It Works, Don't Touch It" Projects Of Your Life

Hardware Devops Programming Debugging Backend

1 month ago 237.8K views 0 shares

What Was The Craziest "If It Works, Don't Touch It" Projects Of Your Life

You know that legacy codebase held together by duct tape, prayers, and a single try-catch block? Yeah, this is its physical manifestation. Someone's got a VGA-to-PS/2 adapter chained to what looks like a USB converter, all dangling precariously from the back of a machine that's probably running critical production systems. The "there is always a WAY" caption captures that beautiful moment when you realize your Frankenstein solution actually works, and now you're too terrified to touch it. Nobody knows why it works. Nobody WANTS to know. The documentation is just a sticky note that says "DON'T UNPLUG." It's been running for 847 days straight. The company's entire billing system depends on it. And if you breathe on it wrong, the whole thing collapses like a poorly written recursive function without a base case.

How Do I Turn It Off

Hardware

1 month ago 314.3K views 0 shares

How Do I Turn It Off

When your PC case has so many RGB lights that it's basically achieved nuclear fusion. You just wanted a simple build, maybe a little accent lighting, but now your room looks like a rave venue and you're frantically searching through three different proprietary software suites (Corsair iCUE, ASUS Aura, MSI Mystic Light) trying to figure out which one controls the supernova happening under your desk. The worst part? There's probably no physical button to disable it. You'll need to boot into Windows, launch four different apps that all want to start on boot, navigate through unintuitive UIs, and pray they actually sync with each other. Or you could just... unplug it? But then you'd have to reach behind that cable management nightmare you spent three hours organizing. Fun fact: RGB lighting adds exactly 0 FPS to your build but somehow makes it feel 30% faster. Science.

They Can't See The Truth...

Hardware

1 month ago 179.3K views 0 shares

They Can't See The Truth...

Building a PC? Non-techies imagine you're some elite hacker typing furiously in a dark room, pulling off cyber heists. Reality check: you're just playing adult LEGO with expensive blocks, praying you don't bend any pins. And picking parts? They think you casually stroll into a store, grab what looks cool, and you're done. Nope. You're actually solving a multi-variable optimization problem that would make mathematicians weep. Will this CPU bottleneck the GPU? Is this RAM compatible with the motherboard? Does the PSU have enough wattage? Will it all fit in the case? Can I afford to eat this month? The cable management nightmare in the middle is just chef's kiss—because no matter how much you plan, it always ends up looking like a spaghetti factory exploded inside your case.

Not A Single Misplaced Cable

Hardware

1 month ago 244.2K views 0 shares

Not A Single Misplaced Cable

You know you've reached peak enlightenment when you successfully migrate your entire PC to a new case without creating a rat's nest of cables or accidentally plugging your GPU power into the CPU header. It's like performing open-heart surgery on yourself and waking up with better abs. The real flex isn't the RGB or the specs—it's that everything boots on the first try. No POST errors, no mysterious beeps, no "why is my SSD not showing up" panic. Just pure, unadulterated cable management perfection. You're basically a hardware whisperer at this point. Meanwhile, the rest of us are over here with our case panels barely closing because there's a spaghetti monster living behind the motherboard tray.

Built With Love, Closed With Fear

Hardware Windows

2 months ago 290.3K views 0 shares

Built With Love, Closed With Fear

The duality of PC ownership perfectly captured. Top panel: RGB lighting synchronized to perfection, custom water cooling loops that could double as modern art, cable management so clean you could perform surgery in there. Bottom panel: a Lovecraftian horror of tangled cables, dust bunnies the size of actual bunnies, and a hard drive held in place by hopes and prayers. We all start with grand ambitions of maintaining that showroom aesthetic. Then reality hits: you need to swap a drive, add more RAM, or god forbid, troubleshoot something. Three years later, you're too terrified to open the case because you know what's waiting in there. The RGB still works though, and that's what counts when the side panel stays firmly screwed shut. Pro tip: if you never open it again, it stays beautiful in your memory.

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