It's not for everybody (what ever is, rite?) and since you "hardly have any pairs of cables that are similar enough to be interchangeable" then congrats, you're winning at life and don't need anything like this.

    The sounds hard

Doesn't feel hard to me. I have a bag for USB A, a bag for USB C, and a bag for USB A<->C.

My USB-C charging cables are all 3' or longer, so they're visually distinct from the crappy little cables that come for free inside the package for various budget-priced gizmos.

My Thunderbolt/USB4 cables are labeled as such, and I am very confused that you are talking about Thunderbolt/USB4 cables so stiff that they cannot bend to fit into a container or bag.... I mean, mine are stiff but not that stiff. Plus these are expensive cables. Not sure I have any spares. Those are bought for purpose.

▲ JMiao 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I would consider tossing the usb-a to usb-c cables that do not have a confirmed 56k ohm resistor.

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ThatPlayer 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Similarly USB cables that do not carry data lines

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dataflow 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think I disagree. I just (re-)discovered a couple of my cables don't have data lines a few hours ago, prompted by the earlier discussion. My initial instinct was also to throw them away like you said. But then I realized they're actually quite useful for any case where you want to prevent data transmission, whether due to security or other reasons.

	▲	JMiao 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		agree. i have no issue with charging only cables, they’re often lighter and more flexible, but i do require the 56k ohm resistor to wrangle misbehaving devices that could start a fire.

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aranaur 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Though these should be cut in half before discarding so that no one "helpfully" retrieves them.

▲ dataflow 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Definitely not winning at life with this lol, it's actually frustrating because the cables are so similar. One has a higher speed, one has a higher power, one is shorter, one is longer, one is more flexible, one has a display showing when it's connected, etc... and in many cases it's hard to tell which at a glance so it's always a pain trying to figure out if I'm using a cable unnecessarily somewhere and unnecessarily buying another one because of that.

Charging is an interesting case, I actually deliberately use crappy cables for that too, depending on the charging time I need!

Re: stiffness: I mean I guess it depends, how big is your bag. I'm thinking like a freezer bag not a grocery bag. I could bend them to fit but then I'd probably mess them up.

	▲	Dylan16807 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		When I look up thick thunderbolt 4 cables I see a bend radius of 2 inches at most. And my very thick 15 foot 4K displayport/HDMI cables came packed in a box with a 3 inch bend radius. You can manage a 3 inch bend radius with a quart bag, let alone the 1 gallon or 2 gallon bags that I'd expect to act as reasonable cable storage.