{"id":1191,"date":"2008-09-04T16:32:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T06:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2009-02-21T13:38:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T03:38:20","slug":"the-power-dongles-come-to-ruin-our-way-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/04\/the-power-dongles-come-to-ruin-our-way-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"the power dongles come to ruin our way of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently moved.<\/p>\n<p>I found enough of the power supplies for USB disk enclosures to power on the most crucial disks (read: the ones attached to mythtv).<\/p>\n<p>However, I have a disk I use for offsite backups. I need to find the dongle for it. Can I find it? No, of course not. I&#8217;m user it&#8217;s one of these 5 boxes of misc office crap (including *lots* of cables).<\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t we just have a standard USB disk enclosure power cable?<\/p>\n<p>Please, pretty please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently moved. I found enough of the power supplies for USB disk enclosures to power on the most crucial disks (read: the ones attached to mythtv). However, I have a disk I use for offsite backups. I need to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/04\/the-power-dongles-come-to-ruin-our-way-of-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[115,48,91],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything","tag-dongles","tag-fail","tag-hardware"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-jd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4409,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/15\/switching-to-iphone-part-2-seriously\/","url_meta":{"origin":1191,"position":0},"title":"Switching to iPhone Part 2: Seriously?","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2018-12-15","format":false,"excerpt":"In which I ask of Apple, \"Seriously?\". 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