Proof the cable management is optional and doesn't have an effect on the computers ability to work
Spoken like someone who's never had to replace a cable in a long run
As long as you know where it starts and where it ends you can just pop a new one there and let the old cable be absorbed into the rest
Replacing a cable in that mess is a lot quicker than having to undo dozens of cable ties though.
I like cable managing, but it takes up a lot more of your time.
Nobody replaces "a cable" in a long run.
The only two actions available are to add a cable, or to replace an entire nest of them.
Or trust me I have. Imagine if you will a house from the 1930s with the internet cable running from the opposite side of the house as the router. However the wire is deliberately put through as many rooms as possible on the way to the router and super glued into place as though it's fine to trip on a wire 5 times to get to a room.
Depends how on reasonable they are, if they're just long cables and dangling on the floor it doesn't really matter except for aesthetics.
It most definitely has an effect on my mental state!
Cable management doesn’t matter if:
- You only care if it works
- You have the accumulated memories of trillions of prior drones, including the ones who built that mess in the first place, so you already know what each cable does and where it goes.
A starship would more similar to a mine than a server room. What if the hydraulics pipe is broken and needs replaced, but the electric line and compressed air hose are tangled around it? Even with perfect knowledge and memory it makes the repair last longer.
You only care if it works
If you can't maintain it it won't work forever
I dunno, I always thought it was meant to mimic organics.
"Cable management" inside the human body is horrendous. So it felt like in the mixing of machine and biology, the machines had to become more biological in the way they worked to function properly in tandem with the Borg biology.
That's exactly it. Cable management is a top-down design philosophy. The Borg are a collective that organically integrates biological, mechanical, electronic, and any other systems that they find useful--it's quite literally the polar opposite of a top-down design philosophy.
It would be more surprising if the Borg had tidy cable management, because that implies some hierarchy. Actually, the Borg cubes are a little out of place in that regard. Spheres or fractal-ish structures would make more sense.
At least some minerals cristalyze in cubic structures, so it's not farfetched that an spontaneous reaction results in a cube.
because that implies some hierarchy
Yup. See: Conway's Law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law
This indeed works in both directions and it's possible to gain some insight into an organization based on its behavior and output.
That's probably it, but in my head they just assimilated too many people like me.
Plus when the cables get broken / damaged, the cube just fixes itself like a biological healing, there aren’t borg drones out working on the hull
I don't know, the drones in First contact didn't had an issue working on the hull of the Enterprise. But Enterprise hull might be an edge case, as in "Not really Borg but soon"-technology.
On the other Hand, the Borg assimilate anything they get their cable management on (eg. the doctors mobile holographic emitter).
But I don't really know much of the deeper Borg lore.
Nanoprobes do the reconstruction
Plus when the cables get broken / damaged, the cube just fixes itself like a biological healing, there aren’t borg drones out working on the hull
It's for when they run out of regeneration alcoves
It's not that they hadn't found a cure for bad cable management, it's that by the 24th century nobody would care.
Also, has anyone ever noticed that the Borg don't have printers?
Want to destroy the Borg ... just patch one 2000s era Epson Printer with a shitty software driver to one of their ships and watch all hell break loose
Calm down there Satan
No species deserves to be genocided by faulty printer drivers
I see you refrained from using a modern HP.
Obviously they treat the knowledge as the thought virus it is
All those cables are exactly where they were supposed to be!
DO NOT TOUCH THEM!
Their cable management used to be fine.
The only answer is Borg enshittification.
Ah damn. They must have assimilated some publicly traded tech companies.
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You can excuse forced assimilation?
(I want you to know that I tried to add an image of Shirley reacting, but it failed 4x, so you'll have to use your imagination.)
Speaking of failed images, I can actually see your memes from lemm.ee now! Not sure what changed, but yay.
Anesthetics are irrelevant.
You will be assimilated. (and forced to wire things as directly as possible because that is more efficient as long as it doesn't hinder future endeavors)
Do you mean "aesthetics?" Or is spelling also irrelevant?
Perhaps the borg are savagely 'plugging' things into various orifices sans anaesthetic. They truly are evil.
It's for dramatic effect
They're such Drama Queens smh
They must have assimilated some theater techs.
That would explain the lighting.
Maybe those cables are decorative and reminiscent of the Borg's sense of aesthetics. I mean, look at their goddamn fashion sense.
That's true, they are drippin (in cables)
When your mind has the power of the Borg collective, you don’t need silly inefficient structures to make it easier for the human mind to handle.
Neither spaghetti cables or spaghetti code are a hindrance when there is brutal efficiency to be had.
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No, you're getting very good ratings on Borg TV
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Aww this made me check and there is no /cablegore on Lemmy yet 😕
Create it
They didn't assimilate any computer nerds yet. They seem to only go for hot women.
I object to your implied assertion that the intersection of the sets “computer nerds” and “hot women” is the empty set.
Why do they have cables at all? The individual borglings seem to be able to talk to the borg mind without any cables.
That's the WiFi, you STILL gotta have a cable or three somewhere.
Wireless power transmission is bretty shitty in practice. Anything transmitted wirelessly will be occupying that space in whatever scifi spectrum they're using. So for high speed data transfer also they will have much much more spectrum. To use within each each cable.
Whenever those cables get broken in the show they have steam, water or green fire coming out of them. So these must be their liquid cooling hoses.
No matter what companies will tell you, cables is always faster and more efficient than wireless, there's physical reasons foe that. Drones are linked to others and to cubes wirelessly because they need to do stuff and move around. Vessels are linked wirelessly with each other for obvious reasons. But there is likely an elabration center in each vessel and it's going to be cabled to every alcove and every sensor and actuator of the ship
That's a pretty realistic depiction of every server room I've ever been in.
If it ain't broke, don't adapt it.
The Borg are played up to be this hyper-advanced ruthlessly efficient hive mind, but they nearly never act like it. Case in point: Seven of Nine has two tits and one eye.
Maybe they're just a bunch of sexy snakes.
Limited to non-existent RGB too, obviously not advanced at all
They have plenty of RGB. It's just that they set it all to G.
They only use the other colours for pride month to let organic know that the borg will accept anyone whether they like it or not
They have the R on the drones themselves sometimes.
Lul, true. Capable of RGB & not constantly using asynchronous rainbow effects on everything is a true sign of advanced borgies.
Checkmate, atheists
It's ok everything seems to be working
