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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 61 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

My local hardware store has one of these signs. I managed a different hardware store about a decade and a half ago, and I also made a very similar one. (Mine was nicer, and routered out of a scrap piece of plywood.)

You would be amazed at the number of times we'd get asked that question. Typically it involved a story along the lines of, "Well, my wife started putting up her end of the Christmas lights at one side of the house, and I started putting up my end at the other side of the house, and we met in the middle, and..."

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago

The ol’ Lady and the Tramp excuse, huh? Lol

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I don't understand how people need help making a cable like that. AFAIK It's a length of 3 wires wrapped in insulation, and two plugs. It's a hell of a lot simpler than ethernet.

Some older things might genuinely need that kind of cable, like a leaf blower or something

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

They absolutely do not. The simple point that if you plug one end in, the other will have exposed live wires in the prongs proves that that is never done. Power connectors are gendered for a reason and the reason is electrical safety. Female for output, male for input. Always. Everywhere.

[–] superkret 48 points 1 month ago (2 children)

When things require this type of cable, get rid of those things.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago

Definitely agree. I don't fuck with janky power tools.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 month ago

or rewire so that it uses normal cables

[–] niemcycle@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago

The thing is if someone doesn't know how to make one of these, they definitely don't know why it's a bad idea.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don’t understand how people need help making a cable like that.

You underestimate the sheer stupidity and lack of education of the majority of the American public.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

Fair point; i haven't worked with the general public since pre-covid. I don't miss it.

[–] Hobbes@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

People voted for trump. Clearly there are plenty that don’t see why this is a bad idea.