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[–] zepheriths@lemmy.world 104 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Proof the cable management is optional and doesn't have an effect on the computers ability to work

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Spoken like someone who's never had to replace a cable in a long run

[–] Steve 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's an effect on your ability to work, not the computers. The computer still doesn't care.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is cable management actually bad for computers? If it make the wires 10% longer to accommodate the aesthetic shapes we like, then that's 10% more time it takes for the 1s and 0s to reach their destination. I guess what I'm saying is my lack of cable management is actually a productivity hack

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[–] variants@possumpat.io 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

more downtime while you go looking around for the bad cable maybe, but probably not a problem for the collective mind of the borg as they can just remember

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Borg don't have that problem. Every drone knows everything the hive knows and the hive never forgets. Therefore every drone knows which cable to replace, should the need arise.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It's nice having a bionic eye that is directly connected to an Enterprise Content Management system which has schematics and engineering diagrams for:

  • Aforementioned cables, terminal blocks, pigtails and splices, homerun cables, and associated electrical and instrumentation loop diagrams

  • Piping and Instrumentation diagrams for all ship systems, including revision level document management

  • Plan and structural drawings of each Cube, with calculations

  • Environmental/equipment qualification documentation

  • Certificates of Compliance from Hive manufacturers, tracing materials back to their original source. These would also need to confirm to Hive QA programs and traceable Hive-wide standards, where applicable.

  • Indexed and catalogued maintenance work orders

  • Legacy documentation from previous species who were assimilated

  • Indexing and cataloguing newly encountered species' technology and uploading it to the database

Also the eye would be Augmented Reality so the drone can tell exactly what it is just by looking at it.

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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Nobody replaces "a cable" in a long run.

The only two actions available are to add a cable, or to replace an entire nest of them.

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

As long as you know where it starts and where it ends you can just pop a new one there and let the old cable be absorbed into the rest

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[–] rekabis@programming.dev 74 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Cable management doesn’t matter if:

  1. You only care if it works
  2. You have the accumulated memories of trillions of prior drones, including the ones who built that mess in the first place, so you already know what each cable does and where it goes.
[–] wahming@monyet.cc 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I built the mess under my desk, that doesn't mean I know what the cables do any more.

This dude just admitted he's not a superior species

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[–] toomanyjoints69@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago

A starship would more similar to a mine than a server room. What if the hydraulics pipe is broken and needs replaced, but the electric line and compressed air hose are tangled around it? Even with perfect knowledge and memory it makes the repair last longer.

You only care if it works

If you can't maintain it it won't work forever

[–] MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

It's for when they run out of regeneration alcoves

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Also, has anyone ever noticed that the Borg don't have printers?

Want to destroy the Borg ... just patch one 2000s era Epson Printer with a shitty software driver to one of their ships and watch all hell break loose

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Calm down there Satan

No species deserves to be genocided by faulty printer drivers

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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

All those cables are exactly where they were supposed to be!

DO NOT TOUCH THEM!

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Their cable management used to be fine.

The only answer is Borg enshittification.

Ah damn. They must have assimilated some publicly traded tech companies.

[–] Neon_Dystopia@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can excuse forced assimilation, but I draw the line at poor cable management.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can excuse forced assimilation?

(I want you to know that I tried to add an image of Shirley reacting, but it failed 4x, so you'll have to use your imagination.)

[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Speaking of failed images, I can actually see your memes from lemm.ee now! Not sure what changed, but yay.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well hot damn!

I haven't changed anything either, so we must owe a thank you to someone somewhere.

[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

To whom it may concern,

Thanks!

[–] SARGEx117@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anesthetics are irrelevant.

You will be assimilated. (and forced to wire things as directly as possible because that is more efficient as long as it doesn't hinder future endeavors)

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you mean "aesthetics?" Or is spelling also irrelevant?

[–] Confuzzeled@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Perhaps the borg are savagely 'plugging' things into various orifices sans anaesthetic. They truly are evil.

[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's for dramatic effect

They're such Drama Queens smh

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They must have assimilated some theater techs.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

That would explain the lighting.

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe those cables are decorative and reminiscent of the Borg's sense of aesthetics. I mean, look at their goddamn fashion sense.

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aww this made me check and there is no /cablegore on Lemmy yet 😕

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

When your mind has the power of the Borg collective, you don’t need silly inefficient structures to make it easier for the human mind to handle.

Neither spaghetti cables or spaghetti code are a hindrance when there is brutal efficiency to be had.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago

That's a pretty realistic depiction of every server room I've ever been in.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

If it ain't broke, don't adapt it.

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why do they have cables at all? The individual borglings seem to be able to talk to the borg mind without any cables.

[–] Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the WiFi, you STILL gotta have a cable or three somewhere.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Whenever those cables get broken in the show they have steam, water or green fire coming out of them. So these must be their liquid cooling hoses.

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

No matter what companies will tell you, cables is always faster and more efficient than wireless, there's physical reasons foe that. Drones are linked to others and to cubes wirelessly because they need to do stuff and move around. Vessels are linked wirelessly with each other for obvious reasons. But there is likely an elabration center in each vessel and it's going to be cabled to every alcove and every sensor and actuator of the ship

The Borg are played up to be this hyper-advanced ruthlessly efficient hive mind, but they nearly never act like it. Case in point: Seven of Nine has two tits and one eye.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Limited to non-existent RGB too, obviously not advanced at all

[–] SeabassDan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Checkmate, atheists

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