I have done something similar. We were going to play Wii one night but my friend brought the wrong adapter.

Wrong API? Wrapper pattern time!

I can't believe this picture of the "adapter" I made 15 years ago is finally relevant. Think I was just missing a cable extender so made one myself

Twelve audiophiles around the world just had seizures

I'm no audiophile, but wouldn't that plug fit into the port right next to it?

Not audio, but I needed to power some fans with a 12V DC adapter

Tv started acting up today, found a bulged cap on the main board, it's a trough hole, the only one I find to match is a surface mount. I used some resistor legs to poke through the TV board and soldered the surface mount cap to the poking legs. TV is back to life ! Yay !

There is no wrong cable only wrong ports.

A major advantage of analogue. Compatibility!

Just use a banana, no one can't tell the difference anyway

I removed the 3.3v from my sata cables last night and threw an "I told you I can figure shit out on my own as a man" up at my dead electrician father. That'll show him to not teach me to be proud of myself....

Also, help me. Fractal Node (fits 10). Proxmox. TrueNas. 1 zfs2 VDEV using 5 of 8 SAS HBA

Adding 2nd swath of 5. Using remaining 3 SAS HBA and they're working, the 3.3v fix worked including one disk on a chain with the original swath that didn't require the fix.

The 2 remaining new disks have no SAS slots to use, so using SATA but proxmox won't detect them to even setup the pass through.

Tested cables, disks, slots, etc. Enabled spin up on all sata in bios. Nada. Feels like a software or bus issue but I'm not technical. Need an adult

Supermicro X10sl7-f

Still sounds at least as good as Monster Cables

... Wouldn't there be enough electrical power in this that you might wanna cover that in electrical tape?

I've not jerry rigged an amp before, but I did once build a ramshackle 'home media pc' for some roommates once, out of old spare pc parts i had lying around, using the box their xbox360 came in as a 'case'.

Got a paperclip with some rubberized covering, snipped a bit off the two ends, and then you had to short the right two pins on the ... whatever the socket is that would normally go to the front io panel is, you had to do that to turn it on lol.

Hacks so good, you'll drink your own piss.

Tbh, I like how it looks so... Gets a pass from me.

I once saw someone make a video cable by dissecting the strands of a power cable and insulating them with packing table.

Looking through the comments. Random engineers on Lemmy MacGyvering the most insane adapter on the spot made my day