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
That's an effect on your ability to work, not the computers. The computer still doesn't care.
Is cable management actually bad for computers? If it make the wires 10% longer to accommodate the aesthetic shapes we like, then that's 10% more time it takes for the 1s and 0s to reach their destination. I guess what I'm saying is my lack of cable management is actually a productivity hack
Cables out of place can limit air flow and make things warmer, causing more failures. It is easier to snag a cable by mistake when doing other things. It is also easier to grab the wrong cable when in a hurry.
There are levels to cable management, and the Borg manage cables poorly.
The Borg don't have that problem. Every drone knows everything the hive knows and the hive never forgets. Therefore every drone knows which cable to replace, should the need arise.
It's nice having a bionic eye that is directly connected to an Enterprise Content Management system which has schematics and engineering diagrams for:
Aforementioned cables, terminal blocks, pigtails and splices, homerun cables, and associated electrical and instrumentation loop diagrams
Piping and Instrumentation diagrams for all ship systems, including revision level document management
Plan and structural drawings of each Cube, with calculations
Environmental/equipment qualification documentation
Certificates of Compliance from Hive manufacturers, tracing materials back to their original source. These would also need to confirm to Hive QA programs and traceable Hive-wide standards, where applicable.
Indexed and catalogued maintenance work orders
Legacy documentation from previous species who were assimilated
Indexing and cataloguing newly encountered species' technology and uploading it to the database
Also the eye would be Augmented Reality so the drone can tell exactly what it is just by looking at it.
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
Cable management doesn’t matter if:
I built the mess under my desk, that doesn't mean I know what the cables do any more.
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.
Borg were scarier before the concept of the Queen.
I kind of forgot about the Queen.... Totally agree.
At least some minerals cristalyze in cubic structures, so it's not farfetched that an spontaneous reaction results in a cube.
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
That's probably it, but in my head they just assimilated too many people like me.
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.
All those cables are exactly where they were supposed to be!
DO NOT TOUCH THEM!
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
Their cable management used to be fine.
The only answer is Borg enshittification.
Ah damn. They must have assimilated some publicly traded tech companies.
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.
I can excuse forced assimilation, but I draw the line at poor cable management.
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.)
It's for dramatic effect
They're such Drama Queens smh
Maybe those cables are decorative and reminiscent of the Borg's sense of aesthetics. I mean, look at their goddamn fashion sense.
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.
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.
Aww this made me check and there is no /cablegore on Lemmy yet 😕
Create it
That's a pretty realistic depiction of every server room I've ever been in.
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.
If it ain't broke, don't adapt it.
Why do they have cables at all? The individual borglings seem to be able to talk to the borg mind without any cables.
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
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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.
