Irelephant@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months agoWhat popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?message-squaremessage-square531fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?Irelephant@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square531fedilink
minus-squaresour@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoI was buying a toslink cable recently and I shit you not, there was a gold plated optical cable…
minus-squareFunbreaker [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoDoesn‘t that defeat the entire purpose of Toslink cables ? The light can‘t go through gold?
minus-squaresour@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoThe connector was gold plated. Not a golden wire.
minus-squareTehdastehdas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-26 months ago Fucking Toslink: one round optical fiber in the middle, but it plugs in in only one position out of four, and you can’t feel which way the female connector is. EU should fine the assholes responsible.
I was buying a toslink cable recently and I shit you not, there was a gold plated optical cable…
I 100% believe you.
Doesn‘t that defeat the entire purpose of Toslink cables ? The light can‘t go through gold?
The connector was gold plated. Not a golden wire.
Fucking Toslink: one round optical fiber in the middle, but it plugs in in only one position out of four, and you can’t feel which way the female connector is. EU should fine the assholes responsible.