Five years ago, I added a bag of RJ45 connectors to an order to meet the free shipping threshold. This week, i bought a crimper with the intent to terminate some new ethernet.

Now I can't find the connectors.

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themeatbridge@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 324d (2 replies)

My personal mental illness is that I won't be able to finish a project because I can't find the tool or component I need that's squirreled away in a bin, but I won't look for it because that would mean a whole day of organizing my storage shit, and I won't buy a new one because then what was the point of hoardingstoring the one I had for all this time.

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 324d (1 reply)

I mean, i think you just described all of our firmware.

themeatbridge@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 324d

I think that's the AI function that would be most valuable to me. Just have an assistant on my phone building a catalog of resources and tasks on my to do list and creating priority lists. "Can you help me remember where I left the miniature paints?" "I'm afraid I can't do that. You haven't finished spackling and painting that spot in the bathroom."

Firmware patch notes: ADHD workaround. Temporary fix.

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 324d

If you buy more, you’ll find the old ones right away.

Triumph@fedia.io · 10 pts · 324d (3 replies)

I'm a proponent of using RJ45 ports at the ends of the cable run, and quality factory-made patch cables.

grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 324d (1 reply)

I'll be installing ports at one end. The connectors are going in the (unfinished) basement where I intend to move the modem/router/server PC. :)

Triumph@fedia.io · 6 pts · 324d

I would still use ports at the server room end, patch panel and patch cables the same way.

neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 323d

I do this too for permanent installs.

neatobuilds@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 324d (1 reply)

Next year you'll order some cable to crimp the connectors on with the crimp tool?

grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 324d

Luckily, the cables are already run throughout the house. They are cat5e but currently terminated with RJ11, which isn't terribly useful to me these days.

INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 324d (2 replies)

Find a place to store the crimper.

There will be thine treasure.

grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 324d (1 reply)

The place I am storing the crimper is the place where I thought I had stored the connectors. 💔

INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 322d

RIP Crimpyboy

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 324d

Two years ago I bought a roll of strip lights. I finally got around to cutting a section and putting it up. After a few days I wanted to add onto it, so I got some connectors. Then . . . the strip lights were right here. I . . they were right here because I just put them up! AH!

Oh that's - huh, I guess I ordered two different kinds. That's not the same. *insert approximately three hours of searching under and behind every single thing* . . . wtf?!

wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 324d

A bag of RJ45s is now expensive enough to qualify for free shipping on its own

TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 324d

Ain't that just the way

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 324d

A couple of years ago, I converted a bedroom into a tool and supply room. There's also a tall, stainless steel table in the middle to stage jobs on. It's not perfect, but it's much better, and the paint, etc. has a warm place to spend the winters. It's also my sewing room, and my 3D printer is in there. Highly recommended upgrade.