3d ago

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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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 ~~hoarding~~storing the one I had for all this time.
- I mean, i think you just described all of our firmware.
  
  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.
If you buy more, you’ll find the old ones right away.
I'm a proponent of using RJ45 ports at the ends of the cable run, and quality factory-made patch cables.
- I do this too for permanent installs.
- 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. :)
  
  I would still use ports at the server room end, patch panel and patch cables the same way.
Find a place to store the crimper.
There will be thine treasure.
- The place I am storing the crimper is the place where I thought I had stored the connectors. 💔
  
  RIP Crimpyboy
Next year you'll order some cable to crimp the connectors on with the crimp tool?
- 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.
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?!
Ain't that just the way
A bag of RJ45s is now expensive enough to qualify for free shipping on its own

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