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[–] 101 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Found one from before the Pixel Blight Calamity:

OP's image but better quality.

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  • [–] 37 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    All those pixels and I still can’t figure out how the cables are attached to the wall.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Pretty sure they used masking tape

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Wouldnt let me upload two photos in one post

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Isn't masking tape the one that looks kinda like sticky yellow/beige paper? I think you're right about tape being used, but it's one of the clear ones.

    I also counted at least three of the plastic ones that get nailed to the wall. One near your first picture, (can't see it while I write this comment (really need to get a better client than Voyager) so I forget if it's visible in the pic or if you need to check the big pic), on the cable from the PS4 to the TV, just after the bend to a diagonal, it's one of the ones you clip the cable into after mounting. And two on the xbox psu cable, they are both the type that you nail over the wire and a curved bit of plastic holds the wire against the wall.

    But those were the only ones I could see, plus even those ones don't explain how it keeps the hard angles instead of the cable settling into a rounded shape. Guessing they intended to use the plastic ones but quickly realized it wouldn't hold the shape they wanted without needing to put a ton of holes in the wall and switched to tape after that to solve both problems.

    Edit: looking at it again, I don't think the first one I mentioned is one of those clips anymore, so just the two on the xbox psu cable (should be obvious once you see them).

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Likely just double sided tape. That would gather dust where exposed, (not stuck to wires, bit) though. As I found out from doing the same thing with a super long lamp cable, in my bathroom, where we only had a heatlamp, and that sucked in summer. But also the power point was in an awkward place, so I dangled a lamp from the ceiling, but after taking it down, and being too lazy to remove the tape, now it's fly catching tape.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Photo so old the mf actually thought the Xbox One Kinect was going to be of any use 🫣

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Kinect on 360 was super cool and showed lots of promise. Then Xbone came out and the prospect of a newer better Kinect was so cool. Then they did absolutely fuck all with it. I bought a bundle that had it. I don't even think they ever had any games for it. It was a Cortana mic and nothing else.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Me and my roommate had a Kinect back in the day, just because how dumb it was. And it really was, but it also had a feature that you could use it as a remote of sorts. It didn't work properly, but if it did, it would've been actually kinda cool

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    • [–] 65 points 6 months ago

    Personally, I love that layout.

    I'm always at a loss for what to put up as wall decorations, and I hate rats nests of cables. Win-win!

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    [–] 26 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    What's the bug?

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    • [–] 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

    What's them?

    And really, cables nicely ordered is one thing, but they did make it artsy.

    But how? Glue? Too less pixels to see.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago*

    Seriously, was there a pixel crop failure?

    The cynic in me is whispering about AI and people creating cable porn with it (it's happened before) and then saving in a shitty resolution so it's harder to tell.

    Edit: alright, the image is much older than genAI available to the public. Still no pixels.

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    • [–] 21 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    That's actually amazing, and I think I just spawned a new project.

    (Y'know, to distract from all the other ones)

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    • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Better cables.

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    • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    it looks cool, but you better hope you will not need to do any change to that setup ever

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Or just do what I did where I have one of those wall mounted plastic channels with some of the cables hidden in it but two other cables just go to the TV without being hidden because the channel got full and I decided that I was done managing my cables for now.

    The lady that owned this place before me had one of those in wall cable runs on a wall I didn't want to put my TV on. Not even sure how you get the cable out the other side, so I've left it there with the broken HDMI cable she left there, in case I want to run a different cable (so I can just attach it to the current one and pull it through). I probably should just patch the wall up though lol.

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    • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Tell me you're an electrical engineer without telling me.

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    • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The only thing I don't like is the cable running across the floor

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    • [–] 12 points 6 months ago

    Should be tagged NSFW with cables like that.

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    [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    And then they have a trip cord running across the room.

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    [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    This has to be over 10 years old now

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    • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    I have a cat5 hanging from some pillars as it crosses the room. This is great

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