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It was definetly DNS

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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Ok, clearly this one is on you. And I don’t blame your wife.

  1. You tossed out perfectly good cables. I’ve made this mistake too, so I feel your pain.
  2. You need to have at least two piles: one for working parts, and one for non-working parts. Any organization beyond that is icing on the cake.
  3. The cake is a lie.
  4. I have no words for how your dog was able to piss on your computer. I would suggest looking up clicker-based training and teach your dog to piss on the carpet and not the hardware.

I mean com’on. Those are all rookie mistakes!

[–] grue@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You tossed out perfectly good cables. I’ve made this mistake too, so I feel your pain.

Ha ha, I haven't!

<is consumed by giant pile of IDE, parallel, serial, VGA, telephone, USB A-B, RCA, and other assorted very obsolete cables>

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

And there will come a day where you will be asked for a cable, and eventually you’ll find it in the tangled mess of cables that you’ve put somewhere in your domicile, you’re sure of it, just give yourself a minute to check; hold on, you swear you have it, just give yourself a minute to find it…. No not that one, almost but not quite…. Ah ha! Found it… no, you’ll keep looking.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

It's definitely not the dog's fault. This is their case: