Back when radio shack was there to help you figure out how to connect the thing to the other thing. The usual problem was you had the one multi-colored thing, and the thing it was supposed to connect to did not have matching colors or matching anything at all.
I’ve got a better one for you: a certain piece of 11kV switchgear has little M10 steel bolts attaching the cable box cover. If you turn them too quickly with the cover under tension the steel heats up through friction and welds the fucking screw into the thread.
The latest version uses M13 and I think the problem has been mitigated a bit, but I’m sure it can still happen, and there’s a metric shit ton of the old stuff out in the wild.
All full of SF6 as well, which is a very cool (I really want to inhale some and sound like Darth Vader) but also really bad greenhouse gas (20x worse than CO2), and with so much out there inevitably some of it leaks (with a 20 year time delay from a leak to the gas reaching the upper atmosphere), but we can’t be having switchgear taking up more space and commercial enterprise profits diminishing to cover it so we just continue our global exponential growth in use of the stuff.
Got something similar on my fire stick the other day. It said it could help me get back to the shows I love watching faster if I turn on the new feature that shares all the data from the different apps directly with Amazon.
The only options were yes and ask later. I had to go to settings to find and turn it off.
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