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    Proof the cable management is optional and doesn’t have an effect on the computers ability to work

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        That’s an effect on your ability to work, not the computers. The computer still doesn’t care.

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          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

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            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.

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          more downtime while you go looking around for the bad cable maybe, but probably not a problem for the collective mind of the borg as they can just remember

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        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.

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          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.

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          Ah so they’re running in RAID 1 then. That’s a lot of data to transfer if they’re all constantly updating, definitely recommend upgrading to fiber-optic.

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            Not RAID 1, its more like disturbed storage with redundant copies. You dont need all data to be on all discs if you replicate it enough times in geographically dispersed areas.

            The borg uses discrete cubes scattered across a galaxy, which is solid.

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        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

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        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.

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        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.

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        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.

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          Yall need an attic, a crawlspace, or some outdoor rated cable and some siding cable clips.

          Some acetone on the hilariously glued cable should sort it out afterwards.

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        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.

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    Cable management doesn’t matter if:

    1. You only care if it works
    2. 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.
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      I built the mess under my desk, that doesn’t mean I know what the cables do any more.

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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      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

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        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.

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      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

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    All those cables are exactly where they were supposed to be!

    DO NOT TOUCH THEM!

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    It’s not that they hadn’t found a cure for bad cable management, it’s that by the 24th century nobody would care.

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    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

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    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)

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    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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    Why do they have cables at all? The individual borglings seem to be able to talk to the borg mind without any cables.

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      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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    That’s a pretty realistic depiction of every server room I’ve ever been in.